Justin Bieber - SWAG (July 11, 2025)

No idea who those people are, but excited nonetheless

 

Interested but not hopeful

 

He just dropped the tracklist I believe, looks like 20 songs.

 

Has any made for streaming era 20+ track pop album been good? Serious question.

 

No, none of that length have been good front to back in the streaming era

 

Track 19 being titled 'Too Long' is a little on the nose.

 

the weeknd's recent album definitely suffered from streaming bloat and could have used an edit but I'll give him that nearly all of it had some worth. that's the only example I can think of.

 

Yeah, sincerely forgot about Hurry Up Tomorrow. Could be trimmed but still a good album for sure.

 

Notes On A Conditional Form had a bit of bloat

 

here's the closest one I can think of.

 

Daisies leaked at some point and was produced by mk gee, not a huge listener to either artist but that combo worked really well

 

Hey Matt, define "20+"

 

Agree

 

(I said "closest"!)

 

Oh wow it's only 54 minutes, that's refreshing at least. Looks like at least 5 are skits or interludes. The closing track isn't even a Justin song?

 

“Daisies” is very good and very much mk.gee.

 

Never really listened to a Bieber album because he kind of gives me the ick. But this is way more of a chill album than I’ve heard from his singles.

 

this is awesome

 

love biebs hope hes having a nice nite

 

Get these druski skit things out of here though.

 

I don’t know if I’ll get through all of this before I fall asleep, but “Daisies” is great.

 

First 3-4 tracks are solid then a lot of this stays the same tempo and begins to sound the same. The Lil B interlude fucking rules, I need that as a fully realized track.