Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Britney Spears, Gwen Stefani, Janelle Monae – you name a pop star, and Justin’s probably written a song for them.
There’s something joyfully subversive about a queer, gender nonconforming wordsmith being a major voice behind the lyrics for straight chart-topping artists. “I say all the time that there’s no reason for a songwriter to do press or to have an Instagram, because we aren’t the ones selling the songs,” Justin tells us, “but I do press, and I