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“Friends” is about staying amiable after a breakup. BloodPop, formerly known as Blood Diamonds, teased this collab in a July 2017 tweet:
So hard to let go of a song and call it done.
Bieber and BloodPop previously worked together on Bieber’s 2015 album Purpose; most notably on the hit single “Sorr...
[Intro]
BloodPop®
[Verse 1]
I was wonderin' 'bout your mama
Did she get that job she wanted?
Sell that car that gave her problems?
I'm just curious 'bout her, honest (Ooh-ooh)
[Pre-Chorus]
Know you're wonderin' why I been callin'
Like I got ulterior motives
Know we didn't end this so good
But you know we had something so good
[Chorus]
I'm wonderin'
Can we still be friends? (Ah-ah)
Can we still be friends? (Ah-ah)
Doesn't have to end (Ah-ah)
And if it ends, can we be friends? (Can we be friends?)
Can we be friends? (Can we be friends?)
Can we be friends?
[Verse 2]
Wonderin' if you got a body
To hold you tighter since I left (Since I left)
Wonderin' if you think about me (Uh-huh)
Actually, don't answer that (Uh-huh)
[Pre-Chorus]
Know you're wonderin' why I been callin'
Like I got ulterior motives
Know we didn't end this so good
But you know we had something so good
[Chorus]
I'm wonderin'
Can we still be friends? (Ah-ah)
Can we still be friends? (Ah-ah)
Doesn't have to end (Ah-ah)
And if it ends, can we be friends? (Can we be friends?)
Can we be friends? (Can we be friends?)
Can we be friends?
[Pre-Chorus]
Know you're wonderin' why I been callin'
Like I got ulterior motives
Know we didn't end this so good
But you know we had something so good
[Chorus]
I'm wonderin'
Can we still be friends? (Ah-ah)
Can we still be friends? (Ah-ah)
Doesn't have to end (Ah-ah)
And if it ends, can we be friends?
Friends was written by BloodPop® & Justin Bieber & Julia Michaels & Justin Tranter.
Friends was produced by BloodPop®.
Justin Bieber & BloodPop® released Friends on Fri Aug 18 2017.
No. However, the single was rumored to be a collaboration with Garrix until he denied it in a tweet:
Nope, his track releasing friday is without me.
Bieber teased it in tweets leading up to its release, and BloodPop alluded to it back in July 2017:
BloodPop talked about Bieber’s involvement in “Friends”:
We [Julia Michaels, Justin Tranter and BloodPop] wrote “Friends” a year ago. The demo of it was kind of like a chill, laid back vibe, and we were trying to write it for another artist. I can’t remember who it was. For a while, we were just go...
He always kind of puts his touches on everything, whether he started the writing or not. Writing is such a big, confusing thing where sometimes it’s hard to define. It’s almost like a spiritual thing, where all the writers work amongst themselves. But yeah, he did add some stuff. It stayed the same...
I can’t even put my thumb on it. It’s some kind of secret spot…a secret spot that you know when it’s missing, and you know when other people are trying to find it. He just has one of those voices where you can recognize it immediately, and no matter how you feel about him, you’re like, “Wow, that’s...
This marks the first direct collaboration between the two artists, but the two artists had worked together previously in an artist-producer relationship.
They first worked together on Bieber’s chart-topping fourth studio album, Purpose, which was released in November 2015. BloodPop® was going by Bl...
“Friends” was certified platinum by the RIAA on February 12th, 2020, two days before Justin Bieber released his fifth studio album, Changes.