
(It's a romanic metaphor in the song, so Bieber'll learn that lesson in a few years.) To be a great single, you need personality, but here Bieber's only distinctive on lines like "what you've got, a billion could have never bought" (i.e.

Having beauty and a beat, however, is minimum for a single. I need, is a beauty and a beat" could be the five-second pitch that got this song on the album over what were undoubtedly dozens of other attempts. The beauty's present, too Bieber's falsetto on " all. The beat, at least, is present it's the same workmanlike club strobing you've heard on everything. They don't have to be standouts they just need a teensy bit of melodic beauty and a beat. Every aspiring pop star these days needs lots of club-fillers on the album: the lead single, the lead single after the lead single, then a couple afterward that can serve as the fourth or fifth track out, tiding radio and remixers over while the next album's in the works.
