2015Released
3:20

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After a run of boorish behavior that included reckless driving, public urination and even an incident involving a black market monkey, Justin Bieber showed some contrition in 2015, apologizing for some of his misdeeds and subjecting himself to a Comedy Central roast. He sees this song as the coda. "It's kind of the stamp, the end-all of apologies that I'm giving to people, to the media," he told the Australian radio station Nova 93.7. "There needs to come a time when they just say, 'We get it,' and putting out a song saying 'I'm sorry' king of puts the icing on the cake. I'm ready to just move on." Bieber later recanted this explanation, telling GQ magazine that he wasn't actually apologizing to the public for his past mistakes through the tune. "People ran with that - that I was like, apologizing with that song and stuff," he said. "It really had nothing to do with that... It was about a girl."

Justin Bieber penned this apologetic song with songwriter Julia Michaels and Semi Precious Weapons' Justin Tranter. It finds the singer saying sorry to his lost love and asking for a second chance: Let me, oh let me redeem myself I know that I've let you down Julia Michaels wrote in an annotation on the Genius site: "We were just trying to capture that moment in a relationship or a particular moment in your life where you realize you made a mistake and you're finally ready to admit it and apologize."

Michaels and Tranter also co-wrote several tracks on Selena Gomez' Revival album. Gomez is, of course, Bieber's former girlfriend and this song of redemption may be addressed to her.

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Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Sorry.
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4/4Time Signature
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The album Sorry is released on.

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The record label that has released Sorry.
RBMG/Def Jam
© 2015 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
℗ 2015 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

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