It is complex to understand. And neither easy to explain. But there is no doubt that Justin Bieber is going through an era that is not among the brightest of his life. The difficulty lies in knowing why. The truth is that neither he nor anyone, despite having fame and fortune, is untouchable to the disease, sadness or the simple potholes of life, but it is also that the artist could be in a moment of glory: youth, money, stable partner, his first child, a workplace pause, new and different ideas in the horizon, a change in his teams … But all that, precisely, can be the cause of that something that is the cause.
The singer’s public appearances show it. It is a mixture of everything: attitudes, fights, looks and statements. The auction occurred in the last two weeks. Three of his videos surprised many. First, a few days ago, in a bar with several strippers and dancers, being aware that they were recording it. It was the 27th birthday of the Raple Janae Nierah Whatry, known as Sexyy Red, and he went out with her in Los Angeles to celebrate it, dressed in a leather coat and gold necklaces, with an electronic cigarette in one hand, perreateing next to the artist before the cell phones that pointed him. The second was in Coachellathe media festival that was held a few days ago in the California desert. There he was seen with his wife, Hailey Bieber, with whom he gave a party after Lady Gaga’s show. And there a fan captured him in a concert with his wife and his brother, Jaxon, 15. It is seen without a shirt, dancing and smoking what marijuana looks like. Then, Hailey takes Jaxon from Justin and takes it to the side of the stage. In the third video, the singer is seen facing photographers when leaving a cafeteria in Palm Springs, near the festival. “The only thing that matters to them is money, not human beings,” he shouts. “Money, money, money, money!” He shouts them without stopping. And last Friday he published a video in which he recorded the paparazzi who were waiting for him in one of his departures: “This has to stop,” he wrote. “They hit me from all angles. And I am not a victim. I moved to Los Angeles knowing that here he is screwed. But can we align and change this shit or are we going to let these damn boys continue to treat me as shit and we will not change the laws or anything? People have had to die for this shit, Princess Diana is the first one that comes to mind,” In a message posted a few hours later.
Their carefree ways and teenage In a country, the United States, tremendously conservative with family customs and where it can be frowned upon that an adult man with a race, married and with an eight -month -old baby appears so public consuming drugs and in Erratic attitudehe alerted his followers, but also his surroundings and the press. Of tabloids like TMZ to entertainment classics as The Hollywood Reporterthrough the magazine PeopleThey wonder What happens to Bieber And they talk to their surroundings to try, with little result, to give with a reason, but everyone seems to agree on the Bad moment.
“Face many demons right now,” said a nearby source in People. “He has made very bad decisions, which hit his friends, his money and business. People are worried about him.” In an article in The Hollywood Reportera former member of his team stated: “See it disintegrate This is to see the incarnation of someone who is not living according to their purpose. It’s lost. No one protects him because there is no one who dares to tell him no. If you tell him no, they throw you away. ”
What happened to get to that point? Probably, several things at once. One of them is that four years ago the Canandian does not throw an album. The last one was Justicein March 2021 (where the one that can be considered His last great hit, “Peaches”). If for June he does not take album, it will be the longest professional break of his career. Three years have also passed since his last song, “Honest”, along with rapper Don Toliver, who went quite unnoticed: Bieber has more than one fortnight of songs that have exceeded one billion views on Spotify; This has less than 140 million. That professional hiatus It is not common for an artist of his size.
In addition, he doesn’t act live either: he took Justice On tour alone, since he had to cancel it for a facial paralysis, something that has happened to an economic invoice. According to The Hollywood Reporternot fulfilling her contract with the promoter, who had paid him 40 million dollars in advance, had to return a good portion, more than 20 million.
You could say that Bieber has been more focused on his personal life, fleeing stress, which is true, in part. In September 2019 he married the model, and last August his first child was born, A boy named Jack Blues. In their seven years of relationship, the singer and the founder of the Cosmetic brand Rhode have seen how often there was talk of crisis in the couple. Last January it was probably the most popular, when he stopped following her on social networks. Bieber went out to refuse that it would have been so and blamed him for “someone” had done it: “things are being suspected.”
Who has stopped continuing and has lost at this time is the one who accompanied him and guided for years, Su manager, scooter brown. Already more entrepreneur than agent, Braun stopped representing artists such as Demi Lovato or Ariana Grande in 2023. Also Bieber. He stopped continuing in networks in January, although they went hand in hand since the artist was 13 years old and began to hang his homemade videos on YouTube, and Braun discovered it and threw it to global fame. He knew how to give him his aura as superstar and silence his sins, such as when in 2014 he was arrested for drunk driving. Besides, It was Braun who lent Bieber those 20 million to cover the costs of the tour And, as published, the debt has not yet resulted.
Braun is, like Bieber, a complicated character in the musical ecosystem. He is also someone external, without godparents, like the Canadian, and both have used his smell, his talent and his blows of luck to grow in the system and become figures of influence and, in addition, millionaires. But both are also united by a series of people who do not go through a good moment. Braun represented Usher, for example, and now they are so friends that they go on vacation; But also to Kanye West, rapper and businessman fallen out of favor. After discovering Bieber, Braun put him in Usher’s arms to help him grow in that environment; Now, the Canadian has stopped following the rapper. In addition, that world was also part of them, Sean Com Coms, known as Puff Daddy or Diddy, rapper and founder of a record company. Combs is imprisoned and will be tried in May for five accusations: two crimes of sex trafficking, two transport to exercise prostitution and one of illicit association. It has hundreds of complaints of men and women from all over the country for harassment, abuse and violation, several of them minors.
It is unknown how the relationship between combs and bieber was, But it was part of the rite of passage to the maturity of the young man. There are certain details: for example, that the Canadian spent 48 hours with combs when he was 15 years old, as they told in a video a few years ago that he came back to light a few months ago, after the rapper scandals. Also that some young man celebrated together. In a 2014 Kardashian program, one of the media and rich sisters, Khloé, says he went to one of the rapper’s parties, although it is not known if those who are now being investigated for criminal acts. “I got into a plane at half past five in the morning. That party … I think half of the people were completely naked,” he said, to detail “a lot of friends”, such as “Diddy, Quincy, Justin Bieber …”. It seems logical that the trial facing Combs as of May 5, where it is possible that its name comes out, be restless to Bieber.
More cut ties, either by new projects or for leaving the past behind. Bieber has stopped having a relationship with Ryan Goodwho was his stylist and partner to found his fashion brand, Drew house. It was his wedding godfather, but now he even stopped following him in Instagram. In fact, he disregarded the strict way: “I, Justin Bieber, I am no longer involved in this brand. Drew House does not represent me either my family or my life […] Do not throw your money in Drew House, ”he wrote on April 10. Shortly after, he deleted the message.
Now, In that desire to erase the past and look alone, He hired new collaborators for Skylrk, a new fashion brand that has been wearing a couple of years ago, but that has not yet seen the light or knows when it will. In his networks hangs garments that he saw, but of which it is not known if there is authentic production or barely prototypes, such as those he shows. At the beginning of the month he launched the most revealing so far: an animation video where the firm promotes, but with a couple of clues of what leaves behind. First, in the images it is seen on a street on an electric skateboard, Scooter, in English, that is, the name of its former agent. He arrives at a house and leaves the skateboard, which runs out of battery. Upon entering the house, something outdated and ramshand, in the pool there is a float of its old brand, Drew, which suggests that this is the Drew House. He turns on matches with Skylrk’s logo and makes the house burn, and leaves with his wife, whom he kisses, and his son, towards another house illuminated by the sun, transparent and more modern, without looking back.
It may now be the fashion that calls Bieber, and not music. Perhaps tiredness, the years of youth worked, the complicated companies, have made a step back. Maybe it disappoints her, perhaps the financial issue, uncertain. Without music or tours, it does not have large income in assets. A couple of years ago, and by surprise, he sold his entire musical catalog for about 200 million dollars. He has six properties, from Beverly Hills to Idaho, and his wife also has a career as a cosmetic businesswoman, so money should not be a problem. His representatives, who barely appear, went out to categorically deny that he has monetary concerns, crying out that “anyone who sells a story about alleged financial stress or does not understand the entertainment industry or, probably, tries to paint a little flattering portrait of Justin that does not keep similar to reality.”
The truth is that there are not many artists like him, young soloists with long races and broad bases of fans. It is a double -edged sword, on the other hand: he recognized a few weeks ago that sometimes He hates himself, who feels “little authentic” and has “problems of anger”a few days after talking about his great impostor syndrome: “I feel that I am not prepared and that I am not qualified most of the days.” For now, His refuge is faith, who has found in a community called Churchome in the wealthy Beverly Hills. Commanded by a barely 44 -year -old pastor named Judah Smith, who is also his spiritual guidance, he goes to his services for Zoom And also in person. “We talk and pray a lotwe think a lot together, ”said Smith about his famous parishioner in an interview with The Daily Beast. They have matching tattoos. According to those who know them, Smith greatly influences the vital and professional decisions of the singer. We will have to wait to see how much that influence lasts in the life of Volatile Justin Bieber.
