Justin Bieber & The Wanted Collaboration Turned Down for Band's New Album; 'It Was More His Style'
The Wanted did not want their recently recorded collaboration with Justin Bieber featured on the band's upcoming album and instead offered the song to the Canadian singer to call his own, they admitted in a new interview.
The Glad You Came singers called the collaboration a "great song," but just not their style. Max George told reportedly MTV News, "We did a song with Justin. I think it was a great song and he did an amazing job writing it, but I think it was very much more suited to his style."
The United Kingdom native added that Bieber was "too humble" to give them career advice.
"He's not someone who really gives advice like that because I think he just appreciates what's happened to him rather than thinks he's, y'know, God," George explained. "We talk about... football, or basketball. Or, you know, normal stuff."
The band's last record was 2011's Glad You Came. Their next album, entitled Word of Mouth, is out Nov. 4. Its release date was pushed back several times and Siva Kaneswaran explained it was because they wanted to perfect the album's sound.
"I think that we weren't ready a year ago," he said. "It just wasn't ready; the songs weren't finished. We want to put out the best of us and we are ready now and every song is so personal and we've all aged as writers, and it's very mature ... and it's the best album yet."
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Bieber will release new music of his own starting in October, his manager, Scooter Braun, revealed via Twitter earlier in September. The Boyfriend singer is also getting ready to release a new film around Christmas time, which will be a follow-up to his 2011 3-D documentary Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. Bieber's last album, Believe Acoustic, was released in January 2013.
He released a song on Aug. 16 titled Slave to the Rhythm, featuring vocals by Michael Jackson, and on Aug. 28, an audio leaked online of his duet with Miley Cyrus, titled Twerk. Bieber also raps in Maejor Ali's song Lolly, featuring Juicy J.
