{"id":1226,"date":"2015-08-05T11:17:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T15:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2023-12-20T10:50:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:50:37","slug":"where-are-u-now-who-does-justine-bieber-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/where-are-u-now-who-does-justine-bieber-need","title":{"rendered":"Where Are U Now: Who Does Justine Bieber Need?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u201cWhere are U now\u201d is a song about the pursuit of the heart and finding shelter in someone\u2019s arms again.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Skrillex and Diplo - &quot;Where Are \u00dc Now&quot; with Justin Bieber (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nntGTK2Fhb0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/justin-bieber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Justin Bieber<\/a> wrote &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/song\/skrillex-jack-u-diplo-justin-bieber-where-are-u-now-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Where Are U&nbsp;Now<\/a>&#8221;&nbsp;in the studio one night and recorded the track as a piano ballad which was produced by Karl Rubin and Jordan Ware.&nbsp;Later he decided to send it to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/skrillex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Skrillex<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/diplo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Diplo<\/a>, also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/jack-u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Jack \u00dc<\/a>, to be reworked as an EDM track.&nbsp;Obviously, the song was a huge success and was&nbsp;added to their album, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/album\/jack-u-skrillex-and-diplo-present-jack-u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Skrillex and Diplo Present<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who Does Justine Need the Most?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cWhere are U now\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong>resembles&nbsp;a&nbsp;Bieber song that\u2019s emotionally connected&nbsp;to Selena Gomez. If it is about&nbsp;Selena,&nbsp;Bieber expresses&nbsp;how important she is to him&nbsp;and how much he&nbsp;needs her&nbsp;comfort and companionship but, finds none when he needs it the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justin states that he showed&nbsp;Selena how the music business functions, how famous people hang with famous people as success breeds success.&nbsp;Yet she is&nbsp;in denial that he gave her the <q>key when the door<\/q>&nbsp;of opportunity was closed. As we all remember July 19, 2013, when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/album\/selena-gomez-stars-dance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">star dance album<\/a> was released and debuted No 9 on the Hot 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justine expresses how much he cares for her and would&nbsp;give her everything no matter the sacrifice just to make her feel comfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>I gave you the shirt off my back whatchu sayin&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><br>\n<strong><em>To keep you warm<\/em><\/strong><br>\n<strong><em>I showed you the game everybody else was playin&#8217;, that&#8217;s for sure<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The chorus is&nbsp;a very emotional proclamation of a big loss that he felt when he could no longer feel the&nbsp;comfort that he needs from her the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jack U Performs&nbsp;&#8220;Where Are U Now&#8221;&nbsp;Live with Justin&nbsp;Bieber<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Jack U performed the song with Bieber for the first time at the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/V2VmcuOEqEg?t=55m11s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">2015 Ultra Music Festival<\/a> which Bieber later performed again during one of Ariana Grande&#8217;s shows on The Honeymoon Tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-1231 size-large\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/cdn.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jack-u-ultra-750x395.jpg\" alt=\"Jack U at Ultra Music Festival\" class=\"wp-image-1231\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Jack U at Ultra Music Festival via <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/V2VmcuOEqEg?t=55m11s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Debuted at No. 97 on the Hot 100 on the diagram dated Mar. 21, 2015. The song\u2019s whole life cycle has been having a slow growth compared to Bieber\u2019s last album Beauty and the beat which debuted at number 2. &#8220;Where Are U Now&#8221; burned through 17 weeks working its way toward the Top 10, crushing onto more mid-year playlists until June 29, 2015, when the video arrived and helped the song achieve another crest in its eighteenth edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhere are U now\u201d is a song about the pursuit of the heart and finding shelter in someone\u2019s arms again. Justin Bieber wrote &#8220;Where Are U&nbsp;Now&#8221;&nbsp;in the studio one night and recorded the track as a piano ballad which was produced by Karl Rubin and Jordan Ware.&nbsp;Later he decided to&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/where-are-u-now-who-does-justine-bieber-need\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[226,222,224,223,230,225,227],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-song-analysis","tag-diplo","tag-jack-u","tag-jordan-ware","tag-karl-rubin","tag-selena-gomez","tag-skrillex","tag-where-are-u-now"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}