Ten years later “Purpose”, Justin Bieber’s life is the same

“My life is a movie and Everyone’s Watchin ‘”, “My life is a film that everyone is watching”. Thus began, ten years ago, “Purpose”, the album with which Justin Bieber closed the role of Teen Idol in the attic and tried to tell his maturity, after the series of scandals that had undermined his career in the previous months: from the arrest for guidance in a state of intoxication to Miami to the requests of various girls of recognition of paternity of the daughters, passing through the brawls, aggressions and acts. Vandalists. That album should have answered Justin Bieber, helping the former Pop enfant prodige to clean up the image and build a more adult and less teen profile. Ten years later, little has changed: Justin Bieber’s life continues to be a movie that everyone is watching. The “intentions” remained such, swept away by new crises, new setbacks of a career that had all the credentials to become gigantic – 150 million copies sold, five diamond discs won only in the US, two Grammy Awards and 33 Guinness World Records: perhaps we forgot too quickly for the goals reached by this boy in a handful of years – and she got bogged down between gossip And Psychodramas.

The last of the series arrived this week. On Instagram, the channel where Justin Bieber, 31 years old, lets himself go to his outbursts, children of a period evidently not for the Canadian pop star. Do you remember that worrying video circulated on social media last April in which the voice of “baby” attacked the paparazzi who were ready to photograph him outside a Los Angeles room? “Money Money Money,” Bieber screamed in the clip, “money, money, money”. “Get out from here,” “go away from here”. And again: “You don’t care about people, Human Beings: Only Money”, “you don’t care about people, human beings, but only money”. After two months, the singer -songwriter turned with some posts shared on Instagram to those who ask him continuously to get back on the sixth. He did it first with anger, publishing the emoji of an average finger aimed at the same people who would like to see him again on a stage, peaceful, lucid and satisfied, and sharing exchanges with a girl to whom he gave “Pussy”, before blocking her on the mobile phone. Then in a more conscientious way, telling the unease Which is living: «Don’t you think that if I had been able to do it (get back on sixth, editor’s note) would I have already done it? I know they are in pieces. I know I have problems with anger. It is a life that I try to work on myself and solve my problems, as people tell me. The effect, however, is that I become even more tired and angry. The more I try to grow, the more I focus only on myself ». He added: «Only Jesus still makes me want to dedicate myself to other people. Because honestly I am exhausted from thinking about myself lately. You don’t? »

After the last outburst, Bieber began to post a series of no-session photos and videos. The last content of the series is a piece built sampling an exchange between the singer -songwriter and a paparazzothat Bieber had accused of having resumed and photographed him on the beach: “I was not there for work, so what’s the point of photographing me standing near my beach on the beach?”.

At the beginning of the year, while his name continued to be linked to that of Puff Daddythe US rapper, producer and entrepreneur who ended up in the center of a media storm in the US on charges of having managed a large -scale criminal organization aimed at satisfying his need for “sexual gratification”, a series of clues scattered here and there on social media by the same Bieber seemed to let an imminent return to the musical scenes peeking, which the Fans have been waiting for for some time: the latest album engraved by the Pop main “Justice” of 2021, before the break announced in 2022 and the cancellation of the shows of the “Justin World Tour” of 2023 due to the Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a neurological pathology that affects the facial nerve and can cause a series of symptoms including paralysis, ear pain and hearing problems. In the same period Bieber broke the partnership with the historic manager Scooter Braun, the talent scout who found it on YouTube when he was just 13 years old.

Bieber in January had shared some images that portrayed him in the studio in front of a PC and a microphone: with him Mk.geereal name Michael Gordon, 27 year old guitarist, producer and singer who – as already told here by Rockol – the authoritative and prestigious New York Times last year nicknamed “An UNLIKELY Guitar God”, “An unlikely god of guitar”. “He is experimenting. Everything that comes out of his mouth is pop music, “said the musician, considered the new hero of independent American music. For now, however, the shadow has not seen the album.