{"id":207872,"date":"2025-12-30T05:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/207872\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T05:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:41:07","slug":"justin-bieber-calls-for-safer-more-honest-music-industry-after-child-stardom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/207872\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Bieber calls for \u2018safer, more honest\u2019 music industry after child stardom"},"content":{"rendered":"
He credits his Christian faith for helping him heal and emphasises forgiveness without excusing past injustices. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cI\u2019m not speaking as a victim still bleeding \u2013 I\u2019m speaking as someone restored. Because I\u2019m healed, I can forgive. Not to pretend injustice didn\u2019t happen, but so it doesn\u2019t keep living through me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bieber said he wants to see real changes in the music industry. \u201cI don\u2019t want revenge. I want redemption. I don\u2019t want to destroy the industry. I want it transformed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened to me was real but it doesn\u2019t get the final word. Jesus didn\u2019t help me cope, he restored my identity. I\u2019m not a product. I\u2019m not what the industry demanded. I\u2019m a son.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I\u2019m healed, I can forgive \u2013 not to excuse injustice, but to make sure it doesn\u2019t keep reproducing itself through me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to burn the music industry down. I want to see it made new \u2013 safer, more honest, more human.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bieber returned to music this year releasing his albums Swag and Swag II but he has since admitted he\u2019s reluctant to tour again because he doesn\u2019t want to spend too much time away from his wife Hailey and their young son Jack.<\/p>\n
In the singer\u2019s Halloween Twitch livestream on October 31, the two-time Grammy Award winner said: \u201cTouring takes so much out of you, and I\u2019ve done it since I was a kid.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven the idea of touring sounds super daunting. I always start out really loving it and then it gets to a point where I am super burnt out.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, the Beauty and the Beat singer wants to choose a location where he can perform for two nights. <\/p>\n
The star, who is headlining the music and arts festival Coachella in 2026, said: \u201cI really wanna do spot-date where I pick a city and do a couple of shows and not commit to a whole two years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He credits his Christian faith for helping him heal and emphasises forgiveness without excusing past injustices. Photo \/…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,25725,115,2511,156,2082,17511,2454,17468,1362,130,157,111,139,69,25530,60270,14638],"class_list":["post-207872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-bieber","tag-calls","tag-child","tag-entertainment","tag-for","tag-honest","tag-industry","tag-justin","tag-made","tag-more","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-safer","tag-stardom","tag-wants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}