Justin Bieber gave an interview to Zane Lowe at Beats 1 to promote his new album, which… doesn’t seem to be very good, at least from what I’ve heard. It’s a little bit funny to me that there was this huge build-up and anticipation and conversation about when Justin would do new music and here it is and people are like “meh.” Anyway, this interview… I’ll admit, I only watched it for a minute because I’m not a Bieber fan, so I’m trust these assorted quotes/highlights:
He wants to protect Billie Eilish: “Yeah, so um, yeah — I just want to protect her,” Bieber told Beats 1 interviewer Zane Lowe, wiping away tears, taking deep breaths and sniffing loudly. “I don’t want her to lose it. I don’t want her to go through anything I went through,” he told Lowe, having admitted elsewhere that his path of self-destruction from finding fame so young almost killed him. “I don’t wish that upon anybody. So um, yeah, if she ever needs me I’m just a call away.”
The start of his first relationship with Hailey: “I’d let her know prior to the tour when we were hanging a lot. I said, ‘Listen, I’m still really hurt and still trying to figure out my way, and I’m not ready to make a commitment to you in a way that … I just don’t want to say something and do the opposite. I was at the point where I’d done that in the past. And I just was honest with her, I was like, ‘I’m not in a place to be faithful,’ and all this sort of stuff, that I wanted to be – but I just wasn’t there yet.”
Is this about Selena? “I think I was just hurt from my previous relationship. In my previous relationship, I went off and just went crazy and went wild, just was being reckless. [With Hailey] I took the time to really build myself and focus on me, and try to make the right decisions and all that sort of stuff. And yeah, I got better…. But either way, [Hailey] loved me and seeing me with other people hurt her. And so with that being said, she went out and did things that hurt me. And so just this hurt, I’ve hurt her, she hurt me. And then before [the Purpose world] tour we just really stopped talking, I was really upset.”
Ah, so he’s talking about the first time he dated Hailey, when he dated her during one of his “off” moments with Selena Gomez. And then he’s trying to describe how reckless and crazy he used to be, which were (largely) the Selena years and maybe the single years when he was dating tons of girls in LA, including Sofia Richie. I don’t know. I get that Justin wasn’t in a healthy place before he and Hailey got serious about each other in 2018. But I still don’t think he’s in a healthy place? I do appreciate that he’s not throwing Selena under the bus and saying it’s all her fault.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
I feel like he thinks he’s in a better place but in reality he still has a long way to go. I think Selina is pretty much the same too but it’s good that he doesn’t seem to be blaming her and they’re both making progress.
Seems to me that Bieber looks directly at Hailey in their performed affection photos, and she looks away, toward the camera or down. I like comfort clothes and think Bieber needs some velour track suits.
This! Just scrolling past their pics it’s noticeable.
This kid has mental health issues and ends better minders whatever that may entail.
needs*
He certainly does and he also needs to grow up. Actually, they both do. If you love someone, you don’t go out and intentionally hurt them emotionally and vise versa. Since he admitted that they both did that they clearly are not mature enough to be married. He has some major issues and they are not going to disappear unless he actively does something about it. This marriage won’t last unfortunately, but that’s my opinion.
I’m putting money on a cheek tattoo.
He does not look well.
He’s been diagnosed with Lyme disease.
Riiiight….
Everything about this guy is “meh”
I hope all of these people find help, really. Growing up is not easy, under the spotlight must be unbearable.
Too much, too young.
I hope he can recover eventually and know peace
He seems to me like the illustration of ‘arrested development’, with a bit of ‘no education’ thrown in.
I’m going to admit that I love his new song “Yummy”. It’s stupid but so catchy. *Runs and hides*
I do like what he said about Billie. I don’t know that he’s someone she should keep all that close, though.
I’m glad you wrote something about this. I’m apathetic to much of Bieber’s recent music and I thought the album was pretty bad, but what he said about Billie was very sweet. It made me like him a lot more.
She posted the clip on her instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/p/B8j4oBvlTQw/
Everything about him screams punk to me. He still seems to be some scrawny ass twit.
Maybe I’m just being a Karen.
he seems really co dependant.
Idk why I feel like this album was a rush. He started working on it maybe late last November/December and I don’t know if that is sufficient time to plan, prepare, write, produce, and record a full album. See, I’m not really that invested in JB, I was maybe once for about a month or two during the 2 or 3rd album and then again not. But from whatever I have read randomly on the internet,I feel this album was done so quickly to prove a point.(just my theory). He announced his album so suddenly that i am suspect.
I’m so ashamed of this post, and to tell exactly what I’m thinking because it’s so stupid but here we are.
Didn’t he start teasing new music when Selena and her new song were getting attention? He dropped Yummy a week before her album came out. I’m sure it was in the works for awhile but he may have rushed it out to steal back some headlines and attention.
I wonder if ever, in all the years of her pro-life agenda bullshit, his mother ever had one iota of self-awareness about the damage she did pushing him into the spotlight.
Such a good point
He seems… medicated lately
In his mind, his wife is saving him, but really, she’s just another handler. Not to say she doesn’t love him, but eventually she will realize that she doesn’t want to be a parent to her husband.
This does not seem like a healthy relationship to me.
soooo Justin was abused…. on LSA they talk about what he went thru with usher (previously abused by diddy at 12-14 beyond) and scooter…..
I went down the rabbit hole on that forum (blindgossip.com and CDAN) and I totally believe it.