• Justin explained the song meaning:
"Well, like, girls are often like, they're just flip-floppy... they say something and then they
mean something else, you know? So it's like, I want to, like: "What do you mean?"
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He performed this song at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. At the end of the performance, he was strapped
to an apparatus and lifted about 50 feet in the air, doing some aerial maneuvers before returning to
the ground and breaking into tears.
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The song debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with 337,000 downloads sold in its first week,
becoming his first number one hit in the U.S.
Released:
August 28, 2015
Genre:
Pop, EDM
Length:
3:27
Writers:
Justin Bieber, Jason Boyd, Mason Levy
Producers:
Mason "MdL" Levy, Bieber
Music video:
"What Do You Mean?" on YouTube
The music video was shot by movie director Brad Furman, whose credits include The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
and Runner Runner (2013).
It co-stars Moldavian model and actress Xenia Deli, and actor John Leguizamo.
Xenia explained: "The story is passion love, about crazy love. We love each other, but at the
same time we hate each other."
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