{"id":48975,"date":"2026-04-12T23:10:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48975"},"modified":"2026-04-12T23:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:10:03","slug":"justin-bieber-takes-coachella-crowd-on-a-nostalgic-youtube-detour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48975","title":{"rendered":"Justin Bieber takes Coachella crowd on a nostalgic YouTube detour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"ttsIcon-cIBsl\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 4 minutes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"toggletip-tKLKF ttsToggleTip-DSCNQ\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"toggletipInfoButton-yoX4E\" aria-label=\"More information\" aria-controls=\":R89qn5:\" aria-describedby=\":R89qn5:\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" focusable=\"false\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M11 7H13V9H11V7ZM11 11H13V17H11V11ZM12 2C6.48 2 2 6.48 2 12C2 17.52 6.48 22 12 22C17.52 22 22 17.52 22 12C22 6.48 17.52 2 12 2ZM12 20C7.59 20 4 16.41 4 12C4 7.59 7.59 4 12 4C16.41 4 20 7.59 20 12C20 16.41 16.41 20 12 20Z\" fill=\"black\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. 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We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Justin Bieber returned to the platform that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/music\/youtube-turns-20-how-justin-bieber-proved-the-platform-can-produce-pop-stars-1.5163197\" target=\"_blank\">first made him a viral sensation<\/a> on the Coachella stage Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>After warming up the Indio, Calif., crowd with a few songs from his latest album, <em>Swag II<\/em>, and bringing out Australian artist Kid Laroi for a <em>Stay<\/em> duet, the Canadian pop export huddled up to a laptop for a nostalgic YouTube-powered detour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bieber rolled the clock all the way back to his pre-teen, hair-swooped days living in Stratford, Ont., singing along to clips of <em>Baby<\/em>, <em>Favorite Girl<\/em> and <em>That Should Be Me<\/em> in quick succession.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old sang along with his music videos karaoke-style, harmonizing in a more adult-sounding register \u2014 mostly a full octave lower. He looked to the fans for requests, asking whether they really knew him back then.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To screams, he pulled up a clip of him covering Chris Brown&#8217;s <em>With You<\/em>, set on a cheap blue couch in bad lighting, wearing a striped shirt and chain. The video itself could be a legal adult, posted 18 years ago and now viewed 64 million times.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube was only two years old when Bieber first posted himself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=csymVmm1xTw\" target=\"_blank\"><u>covering Ne-Yo&#8217;s <\/u><u><em>So Sick<\/em><\/u><u> at what appears to be a school talent show<\/u><\/a> in 2007 \u2014 another deep cut that made his Coachella setlist. On the massive stage screens Bieber&#8217;s 12-year-old silhouette appeared in a white shirt and black tie. Only two years later he would embark on a juggernaut world tour promoting his albums<em> My World <\/em>and<em> My World 2.0.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"imageMedia image full\">\n<div class=\"placeholder\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/5197ea83-4e43-4ae4-8c76-a5b17072375e,1776026957873\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C4000%2C2609%29%3BResize%3D796\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Canadian singer Justin Bieber performs in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday October 19, 2010. \" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/5197ea83-4e43-4ae4-8c76-a5b17072375e,1776026957873\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C4000%2C2609%29%3BResize%3D796 796w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/5197ea83-4e43-4ae4-8c76-a5b17072375e,1776026957873\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C4000%2C2609%29%3BResize%3D1083 1083w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/5197ea83-4e43-4ae4-8c76-a5b17072375e,1776026957873\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C4000%2C2609%29%3BResize%3D1280 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 762px) calc(100vw - 32px),730px\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/5197ea83-4e43-4ae4-8c76-a5b17072375e,1776026957873\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C4000%2C2609%29%3B\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5331544653123803\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Bieber performs in Vancouver as part of his juggernaut My World 2.0 tour in 2010. The Canadian singer revisited his early rise to fame during a headline set at Coachella on Saturday.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Darryl Dyck\/The Canadian Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bieber addressed some of the personal challenges he&#8217;s experienced living the spotlight with an Instagram post in June. &#8220;People keep telling me to heal. Don&#8217;t you think if I could have fixed myself I would have already?&#8221; Bieber wrote to his 291 million followers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know I&#8217;m broken. I know I have anger issues,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;I tried to do the work my whole life to be like the people who told me I needed to be fixed like them.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Bieber added the situation &#8220;just keeps making me more tired and more angry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During his YouTube rabbit hole at Coachella, Bieber even revisited one of his less flattering viral moments, playing a clip of a confrontation with paparazzi. &#8220;I&#8217;m a dad, I&#8217;m a husband,&#8221; he said over the video. &#8220;It&#8217;s not clocking to you that I&#8217;m standing on business, is it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"imageMedia image full\">\n<div class=\"placeholder\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/798c26be-c493-4240-8528-6a12ce348828,1776029981183\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C6000%2C4000%29%3BResize%3D796\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"People line up outside a large tent that says Justin Bieber on it.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/798c26be-c493-4240-8528-6a12ce348828,1776029981183\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C6000%2C4000%29%3BResize%3D796 796w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/798c26be-c493-4240-8528-6a12ce348828,1776029981183\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C6000%2C4000%29%3BResize%3D1083 1083w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/798c26be-c493-4240-8528-6a12ce348828,1776029981183\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C6000%2C4000%29%3BResize%3D1280 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 762px) calc(100vw - 32px),730px\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/798c26be-c493-4240-8528-6a12ce348828,1776029981183\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C6000%2C4000%29%3B\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Justin Bieber fans line up in front of his store during the 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Saturday.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Valerie Macon\/AFP\/Getty Images))<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>About an hour into his set, Bieber took his fingers off the keyboard and returned to his more recent material to close the show, bringing guests Dijon, Tems and Wizkid.<\/p>\n<p>Pop star Katy Perry posted photos on Instagram showing her and Justin Trudeau holding hands and eating noodles at the festival, with the former prime minister wearing a backward baseball cap. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXBwa9clWH3\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=3\" target=\"_blank\"><u>one of her videos<\/u><\/a> Perry joked she was glad that Bieber had a YouTube Premium account, to save the audience from autoplaying ads.<\/p>\n<p>Bieber was seemingly channelling the laid-back approach of fellow Coachella headliner Frank Ocean, who in 2023 delivered a set so stripped-down that it drew critical backlash.<\/p>\n<p>If Bieber is still feeling angry about his time as a child star or his more troubled adult years leading up to <em>Swag II<\/em>, he managed not to show it on stage. Instead he ended the set crouching with the microphone, watching fireworks towering above his name.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/entertainment\/justin-bieber-coachella-2026-youtube-9.7161120?cmp=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. 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