The world’s most famous teenager only has a couple of years left before that tiêu đề gets passed on to someone else. With his third album Believe, Justin Bieber wants to portray maturity. After the reviews came in, it seems critics are comparing Believe on Beiber’s career graph to another pop ngôi sao namesake, Justin Timberlake.

In an email interview, Bieber repeats that his new album is not just for his dedicated người hâm mộ base of ‘beliebers.’ “I just wanted to portray a little bit thêm maturity in my music. I think that in addition to my young fans, the âm nhạc in this album is something that a thêm mature audience can appreciate as well.”

Just as his những người hâm mộ are “beliebers”, one can’t help but speculate there’s thêm to it than Beiber says was the thought behind his album title. “Belief has always been a central theme in my life bạn know. Whether bạn believe in God, in your dreams, in yourself – it is good to believe. It gives people hope that they can attain their dreams.”“I really wanted my những người hâm mộ to get something new and I’ve really tried that in this album. I’ve experimented with different genres and I hope my những người hâm mộ appreciate it,” he says. Judging bởi Bieber’s mission statement with this album, it’s evident that the album tries to push phía trước, chuyển tiếp to take an evolutionary step. His single ‘As Long as bạn tình yêu me’ was released on June 11, and has since faired moderately well on âm nhạc charts across the globe. Bieber is excited about the track, although he seems to run out of things to say about it: “Oh I really tình yêu the song – it’s one of my favourites from the album just because it’s such a nice song. We also have Big Sean hát in it because he’s new and fresh and it just adds to the song.”

Pop âm nhạc relies heavily on collaborations, and the ngôi sao quotient on this album is not just limited to Bieber and Big Sean. His crew includes Drake, Nicki Minaj, Ludacris and lists mentor Usher as the executive producer. “I tình yêu all these artists and their music, so it was an amazing experience for me to record with each of them. Usher is someone that I really look up to and I’ve learnt a lot from him over the years.”

As for his wishlist for guest spots on his album, he says, “The one wish that will never be fulfilled is that I’ve always wanted to collaborate with Michael Jackson.”

But Bieber can follow in the King of Pop’s footsteps in at least one way, bởi playing a hiển thị in India at the height of his career, just as Michael Jackson did in 1996. This decade’s (arguably) most được ưa chuộng singer makes no promises though: “I don’t have a visit scheduled yet but I really do want to visit India soon. I’ve heard so much about it, I really would tình yêu to meet all my những người hâm mộ from India.”