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- Summary: The second surprise release from Justin Bieber features 23 new tracks (and includes the 21 tracks from SWAG) with guest appearances by Bakar, Eddie Benjamin, Hurricane Chris, Lil B, and Tems.
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- Record Label: Def Jam
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Sep 5, 2025It’s frustrating because there’s plenty of great material scattered across these two parts, which would be far stronger as a single, shorter release.
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Sep 8, 2025Moments of quaint inspiration and insight are few and far between. In the mire of an album experience intended to present Bieber as spirited and multi-dimensional, you instead get an artist spread thin; anonymous, distant, too often bloviating across a bloated runtime.
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Sep 10, 2025The elements are there—the R&B-inflected singing (though Bieber’s comes out more like R&B-affected), guitars so bleary they sound hungover from last night, lite-rock keyboards, little wild squiggle fills—but the dynamism has been flattened, perhaps by other collaborators.
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Sep 5, 2025Swag II is everything the original wasn’t: slick, anonymous, half-assed, playing depressingly safe. Out of 23 songs, there’s maybe 5 or 6 keepers, buried in way too many duds that drag on forever at 3 minutes.
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Sep 8, 2025Swag and Swag II come nowhere close, but within these 40-plus tracks are 10 songs that would have made a genuinely surprising statement from Bieber. Instead, they’re buried beneath a heap of blandly samey songs with nothing much to say.