While promoting his Roast, Bieber revealed in an interview with USA Today that he scrapped what he had recorded and is headed in a new direction with help from Kanye West and Rick Rubin, which the latter teased in January. Bieber's new album is all "about growing, being in touch with yourself."

"My whole direction has changed," he said. "What you are thinking about all the time is what you write, and now that I'm thinking about more positive things, it completely changes my music.