A 13-year-old Canadian kid uploaded R&B covers to YouTube in 2008 from his bedroom. A talent manager named Scooter Braun stumbled on the videos and signed him.
For the next 15 years, Braun controlled everything. Tours, branding, business deals, public image. The kid became the biggest pop star on the planet, sold 150 million records, racked up 32 billion Spotify streams, and had three Diamond-certified singles before turning 25.
Then in 2022, he got hit with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Partial facial paralysis. Cancelled the world tour. Disappeared from public life entirely.
Here's where it gets interesting.
In January 2023, he sold his entire 290-song catalog to Hipgnosis for $200 million. Every song he'd ever released. "Baby." "Sorry." "Love Yourself." All of it. Gone. At 28 years old, he cashed out his past.
Then he dropped Scooter Braun. After 15 years. No manager. No agent. For the first time in his career, nobody was making decisions for him.
Fast forward to this weekend. Coachella calls. He picks up the phone himself. Rolling Stone confirmed he negotiated his own headlining deal directly with Goldenvoice. No agent commission. No manager cut. $10 million for two weekends, and he kept all of it.
Then he walked onto the biggest stage in music, sat down behind a MacBook, and pulled up YouTube.
He played "Baby" from 2010. He played his bedroom covers from 2008. He harmonized with his 13-year-old self in front of 100,000 people. Katy Perry joked about whether he had YouTube Premium.
Half the internet called it lazy. The other half called it genius.
They're both wrong. It was a receipt.
He sold his catalog for $200 million. He fired the man who discovered him. He negotiated his own deal. And then he went back to the exact platform where it all started and said: I built this from a laptop. I'm headlining Coachella from a laptop. And for the first time in my life, every dollar is mine.
The kid from YouTube just closed the loop.
My shift starts at 6am, so I have to leave the house at least before 5:20am. There are already a lot of cars on the road at that time tapi tak jam laaa
Putrajaya has launched the behavioural initiative "Bangun Kuala Lumpur!" to ease KL's morning congestion.
As part of the efforts, the Federal Territories Ministry, in partnership with Zus Coffee, will offer drinks as low as RM5 at 250 outlets for commuters travelling into the city between 7am and 8am.
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Teruskan cakap pasal kes ni tak kira lah sampai minggu depan ke bulan depan ke hingga ada perubahan pada undang-undang kita. Stop tolerate manusia bangsat, pemabuk, kaki dadah dan pembunuh macam ni. We have had enough bullshit
Tindakan TEGAS mesti di ambil. Jika bukan sekarang bila lagi???
Kemarahan rakyat akibat pemandu mabuk ini sudah sampai ke kemuncaknya.
Hukuman sedia ada iaitu penjara minimum 5 tahun, maksimum 10 tahun dan denda minimum RM20,000 & maksimum RM50,000.00, serta hilang kelayakan memiliki lesen selama 5 tahun; hukuman ini ternyata GAGAL memberi pengajaran kepada pemandu-pemandu di luar sana.
Pindaan undang-undang mesti dilakukan segera khusus untuk PEMANDU MABUK & MENGAKIBATKAN KEMATIAN.
Pindaan terhadap peruntukan undang-undang semasa dilihat wajar dibuat menjadi MEMBUNUH TANPA NIAT terhadap PEMANDUAN MENYEBABKAN KEMATIAN AKIBAT MABUK (dadah/arak/seumpanya). Jika ini boleh dilakukan maka, pemandu-pemandu mabuk yang sabit salah akan berdepan dengan hukuman penjara sehingga 30 tahun.
Pindaan juga wajar di buat untuk membolehkan pampasan wajib diberikan kepada waris mangsa.
*kredit kepada pemilik video.
Kau rasa dia bodoh kan? Bini dia double bodoh sebab gelak mcm orang gila bila laki dia duk cakap2 mcm tu. pastu nak claim bini gelak sebab benda lain. Dia punya remarks teruk tauuu, bukan biasa2 yg cakap sexy mcm tu jeee.
KL police have launched an investigation after Russian model Alisa Kasimova claimed she was subjected to sexually explicit remarks at a Bukit Bintang restaurant, linked to a viral TikTok video allegedly humiliating her.
The implicated influencer has since publicly apologised.
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@demoiselledian Agreed but I think the media would still write the same headline. I didnโt watch the interview though so I donโt know what she answered actually.
Not a fan of Fadhlina but Iโm pretty sure this is how it happened:
Journalist: YB, can the suspects still sit for SPM?
Fadhlina: Yes
News headline: Minister says gang rape suspects are allowed to sit for SPM