Sentence:  But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current <WSD>trends</WSD> 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). 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A fad or fashion style.