The world’s most famous teenager only has a couple of years left before that tajuk 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 bintang namesake, Justin Timberlake.

In an e-mel interview, Bieber repeats that his new album is not just for his dedicated peminat base of ‘beliebers.’ “I just wanted to portray a little bit lebih maturity in my music. I think that in addition to my young fans, the Muzik in this album is something that a lebih mature audience can appreciate as well.”

Just as his peminat-peminat are “beliebers”, one can’t help but speculate there’s lebih to it than Beiber says was the thought behind his album title. “Belief has always been a central theme in my life anda know. Whether anda 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 peminat-peminat to get something new and I’ve really tried that in this album. I’ve experimented with different genres and I hope my peminat-peminat appreciate it,” he says. Judging sejak Bieber’s mission statement with this album, it’s evident that the album tries to push ke hadapan to take an evolutionary step. His single ‘As Long as anda Cinta me’ was released on June 11, and has since faired moderately well on Muzik 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 Cinta the song – it’s one of my favourites from the album just because it’s such a nice song. We also have Big Sean Singing in it because he’s new and fresh and it just adds to the song.”

Pop Muzik relies heavily on collaborations, and the bintang 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 Cinta 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, sejak playing a tunjuk in India at the height of his career, just as Michael Jackson did in 1996. This decade’s (arguably) most popular 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 Cinta to meet all my peminat-peminat from India.”