he sings, apologizing his way back to the top of the pop charts. — Brian Josephs
The Bieber hook of the decade is the one infused with some of his most personal affairs. He'd spent the prior year breaking apart his clean, child-star image, getting arrested for assault, seen on camera using a racial epithet, and generally becoming a noxious TMZ mainstay. A seemingly self-aware chorus was his juvenile attempt to fix that: "Yeah I know that I let you down/Is it too late to say I'm sorry now?" he sings, apologizing his way back to the top of the pop charts. — Brian Josephs