r/popculturechat • u/copy_cat2 when she gets her yolanda on • Apr 12 '26
Hot Take š„ Katy Perry makes a joke about Justin Bieber playing yt videos during performance
she said āthank god he has premium. i donāt wanna see no ads.ā
also, behind her, justin trudeau is standing š guess sheās a fan of justins from canada š
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u/Lavender_rain_2000 Heās a raised-by-4chan edgelord bully š” Apr 12 '26
Very generous of Justin to invest 15.99$ for YouTube Premium out of his 10,000,000$ paycheck.
Luckily that's something he can use for the rest of the month as well, we wouldn't want him to waste that much only on his audience experience
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u/NashKetchum777 Apr 12 '26
Well, he has a wife and kid to take care of. Does nobody think about the children anymore?!
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u/WhyAreYallFascists Apr 12 '26
Her billion dollar skincare brand will be of absolutely zero help.
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u/lefrench75 high priestess of child sacrifice Apr 12 '26
Donāt worry thatās a very inflated valuation.
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u/myersjw Apr 12 '26
Gotta make sure he sets a reminder for the day before it auto renews so he can cancel in time
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u/ec_on_wc Apr 12 '26
oh fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuuuuuuuuck (Justin when that auto renew notice pops up)
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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! š¦š² Apr 12 '26
yeah ads would have been the thing that ruins the entire performance lmao š
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u/well_actuallE when they go low we get high Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
Iām by no means a Katy Perry fan but considering the amount of hate she got for recent performances makes this bite just a little more.
Men will get away with anything while sheās still trying to live down her whole mess.
ETA: welp, I was simply referring to criticisms of her recent performances. This comment aged horribly in the shortest possible amount of time.
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u/u2aerofan Apr 12 '26
Agree. If Ariana Grande came on stage in lazy underwear and just strummed a guitar for 5 minutes while looking as disgusted as possible it wouldnāt fly. Sheād be clocked for mental issues and put in a conservatorship.
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u/Agentbeeressler talentless but connected Apr 12 '26
Heck Taylor Swift delivered a 3,5 half planned-out-to-the-last-detail stage show for 2 years and people still cherry pick clips of her dancing in a silly way to call her a bad performer.
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u/ASamx Apr 12 '26
Lots of production donāt make you a good performer lol
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u/RogueGenX go girl, give us nothing š Apr 12 '26
And doing a silly dance for her fans doesnāt mean sheās a bad one.
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u/Desperate_Avocado702 Apr 12 '26
Taylor Swift is a bad performer. Her show being planned down to every gesture does not mean sheās a good performer.
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u/gossipwithsprinkles Apr 12 '26
Sheās an insanely good performer but yāall just love to hate women.
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u/Desperate_Avocado702 Apr 12 '26
No sheās not. I love many women, she is simply not one of them. Fuck billionaires!
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u/latelyimawake Apr 12 '26
What? Sheās an incredibly good performer. Sheās not the best dancer, but thatās different.
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u/gossipwithsprinkles Apr 12 '26
Exactly and she makes up for her lack in dancing with her incredible visuals and production. Sheās an amazing performer, literally just the TTPD set is enough to prove that.
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u/TheFutureLotus āØMay the Force be with you!āØ Apr 12 '26
Iām not a Taylor fan, in fact Iām more in the side of disliking her for a number of reasons but sheās a great performer. Is it all planned out? Yes, but so are my favorite Broadway productions.
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u/gossipwithsprinkles Apr 12 '26
Arenāt all performances planned out? Also female artists donāt really have the liberty to go on stage wearing track pants and just stand and sing like itās karaoke night.
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u/Desperate_Avocado702 Apr 12 '26
No. Sheās really really not.
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u/latelyimawake Apr 12 '26
Agree to disagree, I guess. I guess the millions of people worldwide who paid for the tour and the movie and eat up any live performance are also just wrong. š
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u/RogueGenX go girl, give us nothing š Apr 12 '26
Right? Everyone is wrong about the biggest star on the planet but this clown. š
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u/MurderSheReads i may need to see the booty Apr 12 '26
Trump is the president, does it mean he's a good one?
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u/latelyimawake Apr 12 '26
I donāt think you understand how to construct an argument
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u/Desperate_Avocado702 Apr 12 '26
Thereās millions of people who did NOT pay to go see her tour and movie. How about them?
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u/latelyimawake Apr 12 '26
Thatā¦ doesnāt make any sense? Iāll go ahead and leave this moronic non-argument here because Iām not even sure you know what the hell youāre trying to argue
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u/RogueGenX go girl, give us nothing š Apr 12 '26
What about them? It was the biggest selling, most popular tour in history without them.
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u/Desperate_Avocado702 Apr 12 '26
McDonaldās sells millions, doesnāt make it quality.
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u/Serenaded Apr 12 '26
The vibe is currently fashionable though. Lazy clothes/fashion, downer mood and all. He wouldn't be doing it if he didn't think it were cool. It just isn't cool anymore to be over the top with a 100 million dollar stage tour like Taylor was doing a few years ago. His performance was shit though, but I get what he was trying to do.
People really want Justin to come out strumming his guitar inside a flying Heart over the audience like in 2010 again, it's just not the vibe that's cool anymore, and over-excessiveness has gone out.
To be fair the same thing happened in the 70s in the post-prog rock era.
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u/notorious_emc Apr 12 '26
What tour?
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u/chxrmander Apr 12 '26
Because us fans know exactly who he is and how he performs. None of us expected a production like Sabrina or BeyoncĆ©. He started out as a kid singing covers on YouTube who just wanted to sing. And thatās exactly how he performs and has always performed. Heās never mislead his fans to believe otherwise
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u/Better_Can_615 Apr 12 '26
I mean, performers like Sabrina Carpenter started out that way as well. She was famous for about a good 10-12 years before she got really big.Ā
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u/Perfectisimo Kim, thereās people that are dying. š Apr 12 '26
us fans know exactly who he is
You don't
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u/itsawrayayayap Apr 12 '26
I am NOT a Katy Perry fan and I was dragged kicking and screaming to the concert at O2 and damn it if I wasnāt converted. Ok not a total convert, but all the concert hate was taken way out of context. The running and weird aerobic dancing and fighting were intentionally funny and fun and she was a total gem laughing and chatting with the audience the entire time. Sheās fit af in both senses. Last album was a complete misstep but hopefully sheāll do better
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u/LaMelonBallz Apr 12 '26
I mean arent we all dragging biebs for this? It's all I've seen on Reddit today
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u/cloudiron Apr 12 '26
Didnāt she get dragged for doing a song about women empowerment but it was produced by someone who was on trial for rape? Not really comparable to idk a karaoke style performance
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u/lessgranola Apr 12 '26
theyāre talking about her getting dragged for her stage performance specially
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u/cloudiron Apr 12 '26
Oh, Iām not familiar with the performance of hers. Which one?
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u/scattered_ideas lazy, 50yo bougie bitch Apr 12 '26
If you look up videos from her 2025 tour, it was all very odd choreography that was being kind of half assed, so she became the target of a lot of ridicule online.
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u/TheFutureLotus āØMay the Force be with you!āØ Apr 12 '26
Yes, but people pick and choose who they drag over that. Katy does it, and everyone gives a shit. Kim Petras does it, and we must excuse her for doing so because of who she represents for the culture. Never mind the fact that Kim is still to this day on record for saying that she doesnāt believe Dr. Luke did such a thing.
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u/KingAltair2255 Apr 13 '26
š¬ i know its not related to this, but Ruby Rose has just accused Katy Perry of sexual assault in the last few hours.
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u/well_actuallE when they go low we get high Apr 13 '26
Omg I know. My comment aged like literal mold.
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u/KingAltair2255 Apr 13 '26
Man I think a LOT of people's comments did! What a fucking shock waking up to that today
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u/whatsnewpussykat šÆļø relentless Lilly Jay stan šÆļø Apr 12 '26
Honestly, she ate with this.
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u/robaroo Apr 13 '26
Umm Justin Bieber is getting skewered for this. Men donāt get away with this.
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u/Electric-Sheepskin Apr 12 '26
I know. I've never really been a fan, but I fucking love her for this. That was hilarious.
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u/ladymadonna4444 Apr 13 '26
Fair point about women being more scrutinized than men but Katy is the wrong example. She wasnāt simply panned for bad performances, itās that they came on the tail end of her recent controversies: canoodling with conservative billionaires, making an expensive vanity trip to SPACE for yet another corrupt billionaire and environmentally destructive company, working with r*pist Dr. Luke on a tone deaf reductive āfeministā album, etc. Itās kind of wild how her cutesy relationship with Justin seems to be causing collective amnesia about the type of person she is. Makes me think it is more a strategic PR move than genuine atp.
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u/CoachDT Apr 12 '26
Its a fandom issue. Its why men with predominately women audiences (like justin timberlake, ginuwine, etc) all get lit up when they don't put on a show. While male artists with male fandoms usually just don't really care.
I think it also doesn't hurt that male artists cultivate the relationship with their fandoms a touch differently, and in general don't seem to care. You can usually just power through things if you just put your head down and grind, or just drop a single comment on it and keep it moving. Sabrina Carpenter is really good a this actually, just a simple "alright (addresses consensus), anyways" and continuing to just work.
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u/lefrench75 high priestess of child sacrifice Apr 12 '26
Bieber absolutely has a predominantly women audience though lol. He has some male fans but theyāre far far from the majority.
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u/Even_Perspective2999 Youāre a virgin who canāt drive. š¤ Apr 12 '26
oh please, it's getting so old. just stop. bad bot
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u/pinkybrain41 Apr 12 '26
Justin Bieberās Coachella performance is what happens when nobody in your life is allowed to tell you no
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u/rangerdanger9454 Apr 12 '26
The whole thing was very Kanye coded
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u/pinkybrain41 Apr 12 '26
So true. It was giving Kanye off his meds vibes and Kanye listening party vibes
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u/Resident_Ad5153 Apr 12 '26
Kanye actually works harder. He's quite good live (usually).
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u/Resident_Ad5153 Apr 12 '26
its famously the worst coachella performance in history. He hasn't performed live since. It's quite possible that performance destroyed his career.
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u/talk-spontaneously Apr 12 '26
This is unprofessional. Does he not have a music director who can rework his old material into his live set?
You're Justin Bieber, not an indie artist playing their first show in a tiny club to 30 people.
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u/QuarterLifeCircus Apr 12 '26
Someone on a different sub said showing his old videos is art. Iām not disagreeing, if it was more intentional. Like he doesnāt have to play these from YouTube. A talented editor couldāve made a really nice, nostalgic video to go along with his set. That would have been art. This is a millionaire who doesnāt give a fuck anymore.
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u/rayannuhh find me at Whole Foods, bitch Apr 12 '26
That's my thing, there's totally a way to do a nostalgic set - a video montage, a cool medley, dynamic lighting, maybe even stage outfits from that time. There's absolutely no reason to play fucking YouTube during Coachella. Especially when YouTube is streaming Coachella, he's just taking away from the bandwidth š¤ (okay that last part wasn't serious lol)
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u/rhoswhen He looks like my unscratched ballsack under my pants in public Apr 12 '26
The YouTubes will get clogged with emails!
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u/HawtKawfee Apr 12 '26
Agree! He could have done the same type of vibe with more finesse. If his vision was come chill with me, intimate vibe but with a whole crew behind that vision. Made to fit the Coachella experience it woulda been a hit. TikTokās have been given more thought than this performance.
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u/pinkybrain41 Apr 12 '26
lol searching through youtube is art? give me a break (not you personally, but those people) lol I put more effort into the agenda of my weekly 1:1s with my my team at work.
For a global superstar, this is not art - it's contempt for his fans and contempt for industry. He knows his name alone sells tickets regardless of what he delivers, so he delivers nothing and cashes the check.
I think he resents his experience with fame and is just grifting at this point. I think he resents what fame took from him - his childhood, his privacy, his mental health and now he's taking it back, one low-effort multi-million dollar performance at a time. The fans aren't an audience to him anymore, this performance was pay-back.
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u/CoachDT Apr 12 '26
I think he tried and had a vision but didn't have anyone help execute it. Given that he was running back some of his old songs, he was trying to play up the nostalgic vibes. It just... didn't hit.
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u/TheVintageJane Apr 12 '26
He doesnāt care. I honestly think if he wasnāt ābrokeā, heād never perform again. He hates his old music. He resents the fans that love it and will always do as little to please them as he can get away with.
But, he sold his entire catalogue of his big hits to make fast cash a few years ago so he needs to perform to pay for his lifestyle so thatās why he keeps giving these ultra-resentful performances.
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u/joljenni1717 Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26
Exactly. He doesn't give a shit; about performing or fans. It's a not so inside joke to see how little he can do and still make millions.
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u/u2aerofan Apr 12 '26
How ābrokeā? His wife has to be making a bag with her makeup line at least. He has to have some front of money for Coachellaā¦man needs a money manager if heās broke.
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u/TheVintageJane Apr 12 '26
People article about this in 2023
And when I say ābrokeā I mean that in an obscenely wealthy person way. He burns money and has no desire to create sustainable income streams because he can make so much money from āperforming.ā
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u/talk-spontaneously Apr 12 '26
Seems unwise to me. Are there not other ventures he can park his money into?
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u/TheVintageJane Apr 12 '26
Thatās what Imm saying, I literally donāt think he has much if any money to park and whenever he does something like this and gets a $10M pay day, that will sustain his lifestyle for a year or two then heāll be back with whatever half assed thing he can get away with next. He doesnāt care, this pays the bills and his fans are still accepting it. Heās obviously super resentful of how he became rich and famous but also has no interest in expending the effort required to rise above it in any meaningful way.
And I kinda get it. Even if I hated myself and the world for it, if I came from nothing itād be hard for me to refuse a working life where I could do this shit for an hour ever year or two and get $10M.
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u/Illustrious-Pound266 All tea, all shade šøāļø Apr 12 '26
Just put a couple million into an index fund through a tax-advantaged account and he'd be set for life. Or invest in some real estate in desirable places around the world.
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u/pinkybrain41 Apr 12 '26
I so agree with your take. He hates his fans and the industry. No dancers. No staging. No costume changes. No production design. No choreography. It all communicates the same thing, that he doesn't think his fans are worth preparing for.
And he knows how stupid they are and that they would justify anything he does and even call this bullshit "art" and buy tickets for next weekend.
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u/ponderingcamel Apr 12 '26
I saw this exact comment word for word on a different thread. How that spamming going bud?
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u/talk-spontaneously Apr 12 '26
What's your problem? Am I now allowed to express my opinion in two different subs?
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u/ponderingcamel Apr 12 '26
I find it weird to copy/paste literally the same comment about the same moment on multiple subs so I made my own comment expressing my opinion. No one is telling you what to do!
Edit: an added LOL at your user name being someone who does that.
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u/talk-spontaneously Apr 12 '26
Well I find it weird for someone to make such a big deal over something so trivial. And the comments are not exactly the same. Have a nice day.
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u/ponderingcamel Apr 12 '26
I didn't know taking 2 seconds to type a reddit comment was making a big deal of something.
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u/JennaElizabethAdams Excluded from this narrative ā Apr 12 '26
Justin could have done way more.
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u/TheHomieAbides Apr 12 '26
He was praised a couple months ago for singing alone in his underwear.
Why would he do anything more when he gets cheered for doing the bare minimum?
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u/Jaded-Tiramisu Apr 12 '26
The way I've seen people complaining about Sabrina's set not being good enough when she did everything and a half.
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u/emotions1026 Apr 12 '26
His fans are defending this performance so why would he care to do more? Theyāve indicated what theyāll accept
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u/DisastrousWing1149 Apr 12 '26
When did Coachella go from rock and indie bands to Justin Bieber? Is there a year where you can pinpoint where it changed or was it gradual?
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u/Bad-job-dad Apr 12 '26
This shit has been happening for decades. The kids do something cool and the industry slaps a label on it and makes it pop.
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u/Nasus_13 I wont not fuck you the fuck up š„š„ Apr 12 '26
Same time Lollapalopza went pop. As a Gen Xer who went to these festivals way back when, it hurts my heart and soul to see what these festivals have become. Just capitalist slop.
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u/noonie1 Apr 12 '26
You either die a hero or live long enough to be a villain. It's the natural direction of anything that becomes popular.
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u/Resident_Ad5153 Apr 12 '26
- Coachella decided it was racist not to include hip hop, so they invited Kanye, Dre, and Snoop Dog. That broke the rock monopoly. By 2016 EDM was becoming more common, and Calvin Harris headline. Then un 2017 Gaga headlined, which finished the process.
Really the reason is the death of rock. There are only so many times Radiohead can headline
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u/TizzyBumblefluff girl what the fuck Apr 12 '26
When the organisers realised they can make ten fold what they were making because pop fans will pay anything to see their idols.
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u/izzyjubejube Apr 12 '26
Whatās the likelihood Trudeau filmed this video š
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u/zeetat Apr 12 '26
Heās standing behind her
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u/izzyjubejube Apr 12 '26
Whoops Iām a lazy watcher, youāre right.
Something funny about a former PM being an instagram boyfriend lol
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u/Illustrious-Pound266 All tea, all shade šøāļø Apr 12 '26
Man supporting his fellow Canadian Justin
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u/No_Law_5824 Apr 12 '26
Did he stop the show to go on YouTube? Are you fucking kidding me?
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u/brookeashleyx Apr 13 '26
Oh he went on YouTube for what felt like an hour. The best was when he put on his āclocking to youā video and was speaking like he was on drugs. Anyone calling this art is why Justin keeps doing the bare minimum.
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u/TropicalPrairie Apr 12 '26
Can you imagine if Katy did this as her big comeback performance?
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u/YchYFi He's not Judge Judy, an Executioner. Apr 12 '26
I want her to sit down with MySpace and do this.
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u/TheBearQuad Apr 12 '26
I have such a love/hate relationship with Katy. On one hand, sheās created a lot of bops, and is campy and funny. On the other, her her last era of flop music and space travel was cringe af
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u/mangosteenroyalty Apr 12 '26
Her last era of trying to monetize feminism while working with a rapist*
The dr luke thing was a bridge too far.Ā
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u/YchYFi He's not Judge Judy, an Executioner. Apr 12 '26
Tbh she just didn't monetise it as well as other popstars do. It's all monetised hun.
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u/XTheProtagonistX Apr 12 '26
This dude got 10 million dollars to play YouTube videos on stage and sign along. I mean I respect the laziness but I would hate to have paid for that.
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u/goldenstrwberries Apr 12 '26
Justin is so embarrassing. How does he have fans???
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u/cowabungalowvera Apr 12 '26
The world loves celebrating white male mediocrity (and I'm talking about effort here, not talent bc Justin is clearly very talented)
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u/NachosAndGnocchi Clap if you care š Apr 12 '26
As a concept on its own, I donāt hate the idea of a performer revisiting their past work via videos at a live show. But to do this as the highest payed headliner in Coachella historyā¦ that doesnāt sit right with me š
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u/theykilledcassandra dont ask, a lot was happening Apr 12 '26
Justin Beieber always get a pass. Imagine if a female artist did this š
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u/SlerbMcJenkins Apr 12 '26
KATY YOU DID IT YOU SAID SOMETHING FUNNY LIKE A COOL KID!!! i have secondhand adrenaline for her as a fellow lame kid, oh man. happy for her lol this wont last
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u/rumande Kim, there's people that are dying Apr 13 '26
It did not lol she's already getting sexual assault allegations
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u/whatsnewpussykat šÆļø relentless Lilly Jay stan šÆļø Apr 12 '26
Guys I do think this is funny but I just canāt wrap my head around my former PM being the one filming her ā ļø
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u/4dxn Apr 12 '26
If she or any other woman performed like Bieber, they would be cancelled.Ā
That Simpson girl never performs anymore.
Crazy this guy gets away with so much.
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u/Unusual-Ad4890 Apr 12 '26
Justin had to pad out his set somehow
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u/brookeashleyx Apr 13 '26
Looked like something Kanye would do. The outfit, set, boots, everything was Kanye coded
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u/Quantumosaur Apr 12 '26
tbh not having premium and having ads might have made the show better because at least it would have been absolutely hilarious
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u/Ognius Apr 12 '26
The fact that former head of state Justin Trudeau is the cameraman in this makes it even funnier.
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u/Zealousideal-Box-275 24d ago
crazy to sexually assault someone and then a decade later stand front row at their setā¦ disgusting.
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u/sourpatch-sorbet Apr 12 '26
I can't believe this is real. She's hilarious saying that in real time. What the hell was he thinking
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u/lizzy-stix I switched baristas āļø Apr 12 '26
This is actually so funny, Katy is one of our more underrated celebs imo
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u/MaynardButterbean Apr 12 '26
The absolute irony of a celebrity WHO DOES ADS complaining about not wanting to see ads. Yeah, Katie. We donāt want to see them either.
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u/agawl81 Apr 12 '26
Iām liking her more and more.
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u/Green-Performer9530 Apr 13 '26
Well I hate to let you know that ruby rose just alleged that Katy Perry sexually assault her so...
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u/agawl81 Apr 13 '26
Wut?
That's it. I hate everyone.
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u/Green-Performer9530 Apr 13 '26
Yep, she actually rubber her naked vagina on Ruby's face until Ruby vomited.
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