V Magazine’s Music Issue: Justin Bieber Grows Up, Britney Spears Gets Hilarious Photoshop Job + More

Pop’s crown prince Justin Bieber graces the cover of V, the fashion mag’s 75th issue, which is also its music issue.

While Sky Ferreira posed as Madonna for a buzzed about spread, it’s the Biebs who graces the cover, offering up an intense, masculine stare and a pout while wearing a cage-knit black sweater.

Check out some shots of Bieber from the issue below:

The writers also sat down with some females we haven’t heard from in a while i.e. the likes of Cassie, Jojo, and Solange, who are anxious to release new projects this year; check out some excerpts from their part of the interview below:

“There are a lot of songs about sex,” she says of her new album, a personal project she funded and managed herself. “It’s the kind of record you put on when your man is coming over, when you’re with your girls. There are songs that make you wanna dance because we were kind of partying our way through the record, but it’s very chill.”- Solange

“I have hundreds of songs recorded for this album. I’ve been working on it for a long time. Finally, I had to decide my direction. I felt kind of exposed when I stopped working in the studio. My friends would call me to hang out and I would say, ‘nope, going in the studio,’ and they’d say, ‘you’ve been in the studio for four years!”- Cassie

“I love Britney Spears and Madonna and Lady Gaga. I love pop music, those big pop records, but I still want it to fee like my sound. I hope people feel like ‘damn, that’s exactly what I’m going through, that’s what I’m thinking but I wasn’t sure how to put it into words.’ I want to sing what people are thinking and feeling. I want it to be the soundtrack to their lives.”- Jojo

Britney Spears is also featured in the issue, and the photo of the popstar that’s going to print is under much scrutiny due to the fact that it looks completely Photoshopped.

In the interview, she spoke of her Femme Fatale tour team as her second family saying, “I have worked with all of them for many, many years so it was fun to see them all together again on the first day of the tour. Everybody was catching up and telling all of their fun stories from the past, laughing and just having a great time.”

Check out the photo in question below:

Lady Gaga had the likes of fashion icons like Armani, Paco Rabbane and Lagerfeld pen notes about the singer.

Here’s what each designer said about what it’s like to work with Gaga:

Giorgio Armani:

It is always stimulating to work with Lady Gaga because it allows my imagination to roam freely in order to create genuinely theatrical stage costumes, as was the case on this occasion. Lady Gaga is an artist with a huge personality and amazing stage presence. I was attracted by her genuine interest in fashion and design, which she projects with a conviction that knows no limits — and which she definitely considers a vital ingredient of her career.

Paco Rabanne’s Manish Arora:

Daring. Far beyond fashion and beauty, Gaga’s style is unpredictable, iconoclastic yet iconic and out of time. She is now and tomorrow, between fantasy and reality … She is a statement of re-creating, a piece of art.

Karl Lagerfeld:

Gaga gives the world her music and her talent, but the thing I like most is that she fights against boredom and banality. She also puts forth an ever changing, inspiring, and strong image — an image beyond fashion. She is an extreme concentrate of “zeitgeist,” freeing us from the heavy boredom of publicly displayed political correctness by being herself more than politically correct. Something in today’s world would be missed if there would be no Lady Gaga because Gaga is a Lady.