My World 2.0 begins with 16-year-old Justin Bieber
raising his pipsqueak voice in a wordless croon: "Oh-oh, whoa,
ah-ah-ah." If it sounds faintly like an old-fashioned doo-wop
vocal, that's no accident: The song, Bieber's fast-rising single
"Baby," is a consciously crafted throwback. Listen to the chord
progression, tapped out on a perky synth: It's lifted straight from
those 1950s ballads that throbbed out of the soda-shop jukebox
while your granddad gazed at his steady. Listen to the
lyrics:...
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