Can’t believe I’m posting for the first time since leaving Team 10 to comment on Justin’s Coachella set lol…
Anyone calling it lazy is missing the business.
He sold his publishing and artist royalties to Hipgnosis in 2023. UMG owns the master recordings. Every minute he spends performing the old catalog is a minute he's putting in work for other people's royalty checks.
Playing the YouTube videos costs him nothing. No band, no backup singers, little production. Fans still get records like Baby, Sorry, Beauty and a Beat, and Never Say Never. All the nostalgia, none of the overhead. He saved his actual performance for Swag, which is the era he owns.
He also got discovered uploading videos to YouTube as a kid. A laptop on the main stage is the most intimate, on-brand, and authentic thing he could've done.
And he's in a completely new chapter doing it the way he wants. No Scooter, new team, new business structure. Full control for the first time in his career.
If you didn't like it, you're just not a Belieber 🤷🏼♂️
thinking about what the internet was like when justin bieber uploaded that first cover. youtube was three years old. twitter was two. instagram didn’t exist yet. tiktok wouldn’t exist for another decade. there were no “creators.” there was no creator economy. there was no algorithm feeding you a personalized slurry of content engineered to keep you scrolling for eleven more seconds. there was jus a website where people put videos, and sometimes those videos reached everyone and changed the creators life. this performance is a memorial for the internet we lost.
Unpopular opinion but I genuinely think he can do whatever the hell he wants. Watching the world literally drain the light from his eyes since childhood? And honestly, blowing up the way he did in the YouTube era it all makes sense. Let him live
there is simply no one alive who did what justin did while being just a kid. he's a legend and can't be compared to just anyone with 2 hits. he could stand still on stage for 2 hours and ppl would still go crazy for him because well he's justin bieber
Bieber sang for an hour and a half no backing vocals sounding amazing. If you’re mad that he played YouTube videos for 20 minutes that made him famous while showing the difference in his vocal tone over 20 years then you weren’t a fan anyways
habláis como si Justin empezara ahora su carrera xd
después de todo por lo que ha pasado tiene derecho de hacer lo que le salga de los huevos, se lo ha ganado
his dumbass going to the recording knowing how much harm and extra work he’d be causing the production team is just more proof that he’s a sick narcissist
Kepada yang pandai cakap mandarin, stop guna mandarin dalam urusan seharian even bangsa cina ni degil taknak cakap english. Biarlah dorang rasa yang dorang ni berada dekat negara lain dan tak welcome drpd kita jdi seperti balaci dorang.