Every half-decade or so, Justin Bieber sloughs off the callused skin of the pop superstar he became at age 15 to reveal the tender and quirky R&B singer he’s always been at heart. He did it in 2013 with his album “Journals,” then in 2020 with “Changes.”

A source revealed how Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber's relationship is doing amid SWAG, and how the album brought them closer.

"This is the most pure version of Justin we've ever seen musically," says the source, adding that Bieber wanted to split from Braun "for a long time"