Justin Bieber’s Coachella set was really weird

"If I were Justin Bieber, here's what I would play to get the fans going." "Sir.. you *ARE* Justin Bieber." "Yeah, but like, if he weren't me but I was him, this is what I would play."

Major “What being a teenage pop superstar taught me about b2b sales” energy.

He just wants to move the needle.

This is absolutely what it was in the late-90s/early-00s.

you mean before daft punk bjork prince RATM before they had money

The fact that Bieber’s return / Coachella headlining caused it to sell out the fastest it has in years means that the fans going there have sucked for a long time.

Honestly, dead to rights, I kinda f*** with it. I have never purposefully listened to his music but I kinda like what he was doing tbh

I hate what Coachella has become and mourn 2002-2012

They just want drugs lol

That depends on a persons definition of c****. I don’t think anything about it was C****. It’s people’s minds and psychology that is c****. For example Katy Perry making fun of it being “slow” after she literally ruined her career by not being herself, trying to do too much, and becoming a cringey disaster on stage. I watched Justin’s entire set and only 8 mins was YouTube section where he was still singing. He was singing the entire time and it seemed almost slow/effortless from him sometimes because of how easily vocals come to him. Justin has an amazing voice to the point that he can JUST sing. Addison Rae (even though I like her) and a lot of other performers have to go all out because they can’t sing…. They don’t have the natural talent of what a singer should… but sometimes a musician isn’t just about their voice it’s about stage presence, the message, dancing, their physical looks, etc. & that’s okay, but when did “great singing” from a singer become a bad thing? I think it’s the psychology and the culture of today that’s ruined a lot and continues to ruin everything. Everyone has TikTok brain and can’t focus on anything that isn’t flashing, changing, moving every 2 seconds. People do not care about authenticity or if something is actually good anymore, just want it right away. The average length of songs has been decreased significantly bc ppls attention span is that bad. People can’t even watch a TikTok video that’s 1 min long unless the person is moving around, applying makeup, doing a jump scare intro. People don’t actually like or appreciate anything anymore…. They just want to be entertained for a second and then get bored…. Doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad. It doesn’t surprise me that a person singing on stage that sounds amazing isn’t good enough for most people these days… nope. They would much rather see someone lip sync to a terrible song like “pinky up” as long as they’re half naked and it’s fast catch phrase song meant for TikTok trends. I seriously am sickened by the culture we have created. We’re all literal sheep that follow our favorite influencer and our favorite influencer mimics their favorite influencer, therefore we’re all the same. We cannot think, talk, act, dress, or even decorate without someone telling us how. Sad.

You told ai to not capitalize the beginning of every sentence, told it your ideas, and it did the rest.

>I didn’t like how he would start a song and just abruptly end it.   So a ton of my friends at parties will do this, just pick a song and then skip to a new song like 2 minutes in.  It drives me crazy but like no one else seems to mind and most of them do it.  I feel like people have such shitty attention spans now that that's their preferred way of listening to music.

He was?

Grimes first got press because she claimed she was going to sail down the Mississippi River on a DIY boat with chickens and potatoes. The trip was abandoned after three weeks because the engine failed almost immediately.

And for an example of a female artist that does a very minimalist show, we have Adele.

I mean I wish he’d ride the nostalgia wave lol, he barely performed his old songs and it’s clear no one gaf about his new music cause they’re just giving youth pastor lol

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Yeah, like it was maybe more low-key than people were expecting, but it wasn't terrible by any stretch. He *sounded* great, and I don't think dragging someone who has openly struggled with mental illness for not being bombastic enough is quite the take people think it is. The performance itself was perfectly fine, and he didn't seem weird or off, he's just nervy and eccentric these days and I don't think that means he should stop performing or making music if he wants to, especially when plenty of people still want to see him.

Exactly, it was a cool set and everyone was clearly having a great time. They’re trying to frame it as a repeat of franks disaster set

I thought it was cool and unique and I’m not a Bieber fan lol

This shit happened with Frank Ocean a couple years ago. Frank didn’t sing like 3 songs during a DJ set and all the articles said he didn’t sing at all

Exactly. They try to go big with Bieber and Frank Ocean, two notoriously difficult people, and this is what they get. And they obviously don’t care, for they already got the money

Thank you. People need to take their false outrage to something that matters.

I think people need to move past thinking that the only good performances are those where there are pyrotechnics and loads of dancers and big sets and costume changes. Good art conveys a message and there is more than one way of doing that and it doesn't all have to be wrapped up in extravagant spectacle. Like Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber are not remotely the same type of artist or have the same type of relationship to their fame, so their perspectives are going to be totally different. 

This. Got to take a friend to Gaga who was a casual fan. We left and he’s like “I’m officially a little monster!”

I don’t think it was intended to be though. It’s like people who aren’t the audience are expecting to be tailored to

He did this for just a portion of his set and still sang along to those songs. The outrage/criticism for this is solely based off clickbait headlines.