After a while away, it appears like Justin Bieber could be gearing up for one thing huge.
As you’ll most likely know, it’s been some time since we’ve seen Justin take to the stage after he was compelled to step again from performing in 2022 as a consequence of well being issues.
In June 2022, he was identified with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which induced momentary paralysis in half of his face. Consequently, he needed to cancel the rest of his Justice world tour, telling followers: “I want this wasn’t the case however clearly my physique is telling me I gotta decelerate.”
Since then, he seems to have finished simply that. His public appearances have been very low-key, and he’s carried out dwell only a few occasions since — most just lately throughout a shock look alongside Don Toliver at Rolling Loud pageant in March 2023.
And now, practically three years because the launch of his final solo album, it appears Justin would possibly lastly be teasing his long-awaited comeback.
On Jan. 7, the singer kicked off 2024 with a carousel of photos on Instagram, beginning off with a photograph of himself sitting in entrance of what seems to be a makeshift studio setup with a guitar and keyboard.
“Excited for this subsequent 12 months,” he wrote within the caption. “New beginnings.”
And if that wasn’t sufficient to excite followers, he has continued to trace that new music — or perhaps a efficiency — could possibly be on the horizon.
Final week, the soon-to-be-30-year-old shared a batch of images of himself singing right into a microphone and seemingly rehearsing with a band. Notably, he captioned the put up with a cryptic shushing emoji.
A day later, he got here again with one other sequence of photos that have been seemingly taken in the identical location, however on a unique event. Like the primary batch of images, the put up confirmed him singing along with his band with massive audio system, indicating that he could be rehearsing for a efficiency.
Inevitably, it wasn’t lengthy earlier than the feedback part began filling up with excited chatter from followers, with many questioning if he could be “activating” forward of a possible efficiency… on the Tremendous Bowl.
Now, if this sounds just a little random to you, permit me to elucidate.
This 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl — happening in Las Vegas on Feb. 11 — will characteristic a halftime present from Usher. And as you might know, Usher, together with Scooter Braun, has been credited for making JB the celebrity that he’s at the moment.
After an opportunity assembly in 2009, Usher mentored Justin all through his early profession, and even appeared within the music video for his first ever single, “One Time.”
Since then, the pair have maintained a powerful relationship, which has additionally introduced us a variety of fairly beloved musical collaborations — specifically, the “Any individual To Love Remix”, which was launched in 2010 alongside a now-iconic music video.
Normally, the Tremendous Bowl halftime performer brings out a visitor or two, so when it was introduced that Usher can be headlining final 12 months, it was solely a matter of weeks earlier than experiences surfaced that he was desperately making an attempt to recruit his former protégé for a shock cameo.
“Usher has been doing his residency in Vegas and has most of his concepts prepared for his huge halftime present efficiency,” a supply instructed the Mail On-line in October. “He has requested a few of his pals who’re artists to assist him out and be part of him on stage, and he has thrown just a few concepts in direction of Justin.”
On the time, insiders tried to quiet hypothesis by suggesting that an look from Justin was pretty unlikely, alleging that he’d “fairly have the chance to do the Tremendous Bowl on his personal sooner or later if he have been to be requested.”
In reality, some assume that Usher could be hinting at this risk too, with many noticing using peach imagery on his Instagram web page, which — aside from a hyperlink to his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia — could possibly be a reference to his remix of Justin’s hit track, “Peaches.”
So as to add some weight to this idea, it additionally appeared like Justin was rehearsing “Peaches” within the pictures he posted to Instagram primarily based on one image the place the lyrics to the primary verse are partly seen within the nook.
Evidently, that is all primarily based on hypothesis, and both method, it feels like we’ve nonetheless acquired loads to sit up for from each Usher and Justin — whether or not that’s collectively or not, we’ll have to attend and see.
