Album Review : Justin Bieber - My Worlds

22 March 2010

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I’ve got to be honest from that start here, I wasn’t holding out much hope for this album, mainly because Justin is 16, and constantly followed by teenagers screaming their heads off and chasing his convoy down the street of London when they should be in school.

Anyway, after listening to the album, I kind of see what the fuss is about - despite the fact that I always thought One Time was sung by a girl until I actually watched the video, I think the fact that he sounds like a 14 year old girl is part of the appeal.

Okay, so he’s not going to be the next Leona Lewis but his voice does have a slight Michael Jackson in his Jackson 5 days vibe to it, either that or one of the boys form Hanson. I haven’t quite decided yet.

After we get One Time out of the way, the album really starts with Favourite Girl, it’s not bad but at the same time, it’s just another slice of pop from a guy with a pre-pubescent voice. That said, I’ll probably kill it on karaoke at my cousin’s 14th birthday party next month.

Oddly, Justin then opts to whack in a 4-minute song on next; Down To Earth sounds like something from a Disney film, keep a lookout for it in Demi Lovato or one of her ’cool’ friends’ latest movie.

Next up is Bigger, which just left me gawping with the lyrics; “Was a player when I was little but now I’m bigger. A heartbreaker when I was little but I’m bigger.” erm, when you were little? Justin you still ARE little, plus, you shouldn’t have been ‘playing’ anything when you were younger! At 16 you’re barely legal over here, so you can stop with that innuendo right now!

One Less Lonely Girl kinda makes me feel down on the fact that I’m a ‘lonely girl’ and being one of the few women on the planet who doesn’t fancy Justin, the lyrics don’t fill me with hope that he’s singing about me - as I’m sure I would have if I was 15.

As for First Dance, Usher is probably the best thing about this track, there are a lot of verses ending with lots of long, drawn out ‘looooong’s’ and ‘miiiiiiind’s’ but then again, I’m guessing it’s supposed to be a slow number, so that’s to be expected, to impressed though and had to turn off after 1.28 minutes. Sorry JB fans.

He picks himself back up again with Love Me which I love. It’s very Britney Spears’ Womanizer meets The Cardigans Lovefool and I’m swirling around in my chair so  much that I pull the headphones out of the computer tower thing. Sadly though it’s followed by Common Denominator, a title which comes as a bit of a shock to the track list as I’m sure not a lot of people know what a common denominator actually is. Although considering JB is probably still doing his GCSE’s, I’m guessing he’s still quite up on schoolboy facts. Well done. See kids, it pays to stay in school.

His current single, Baby is up next, and this is the first time I’ve actually  heard this song, despite the fact that it’s currently sitting at number four in the UK charts, and whilst I thought it was pretty rubbish for the first 30 seconds or so, I do love the chorus. Not quite sure what Ludacris brings to the party as his vocals are a rather weird juxtaposition to JB’s baby-sounding tones, but it’s another celebrity best mate for little Justin, so we’ll let him have that one.