Obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; bound by moral obligation; indebted; obliged.From an early age, I had decided I wanted to be beholden to no one.
2012, June 26, Genevieve Koski, Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe, But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).
