{"id":240736,"date":"2025-11-03T05:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240736\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T05:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:04:13","slug":"justin-bieber-previews-new-music-and-says-he-feels-vulnerable-as-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240736\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Bieber previews new music and says he feels &#8220;vulnerable as hell&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/justin-bieber\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Bieber<\/a> has previewed new music and told fans he feels \u201cvulnerable as hell\u201d in a new stream.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/justin-bieber-swag-ii-review-3890443\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Bieber \u2013 \u2018Swag II\u2019: a lighter and more tender but still bloated sequel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The singer has been streaming on Twitch for the past few days, sharing footage of his daily life, including him playing basketball, spending time with friends or recording in the studio.\u00a0During the latter clips, Bieber has shared snippets of unreleased music, from backing tracks to moments of him freestyling to work out potential lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>While streaming, he\u2019s opened up about how nervous it makes him to share these more intimate moments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing on Twitch is vulnerable as hell because people who just feel shitty about themselves project and then they write mean-ass things,\u201d he said on the stream. \u201cIt\u2019s already hard enough to put yourself out there, and then you gotta read all this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to share that he recently read a comment after coming home from playing basketball, when he was exhausted. \u201cThey were like \u2018Justin is not as exuberant. He will never be his exuberant self ever again. He\u2019s lost his charisma.\u2019 I was like, \u2018What? I just played basketball last night, I\u2019m just tired.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we\u2019re talking about emotional things,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd I start getting in my head, like \u2018Ma, did I lose my charisma? My exuberance?\u2019 I have a zest for life \u2026 It just sucks that you can have a million people say the nicest thing and then the one comment gets in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the stream below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Bieber has made a return to the spotlight recently and is set to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/coachella-2026-sabrina-carpenter-justin-bieber-and-karol-g-to-headline-3892767\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">top the bill at Coachella next April<\/a>. He\u2019s reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/heres-how-much-justin-bieber-is-reportedly-earning-for-headlining-coachella-2026-3893411\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to be earning $10million (\u00a37.3m) in total for his pair of performances<\/a>, which are due to take place across two consecutive weekends (Saturday April 11 and Saturday April 18). That\u2019s a huge $5million (\u00a33.6m) per show.<\/p>\n<p>Bieber hasn\u2019t performed live in the US since\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/justin-bieber-confirms-justice-world-tour-will-resume-later-this-month-3272452#:~:text=(2%2F4)%20Justin%20continues,fans%20overseas%20later%20this%20summer.%22&amp;text=The%20tour%20will%20then%20continue,South%20America%2C%20Asia%20and%20Australia.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his 2022 \u2018Justice\u2019 world tour<\/a>. His most recent show took place in July 2024 at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai, India. This came as part of a pre-wedding party for the son of the richest man in Asia, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/justin-bieber-reportedly-receives-10million-for-playing-billionaires-pre-wedding-party-3772661\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bieber reportedly being paid $10million for the gig<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/justin-bieber-surprise-drops-intensely-personal-seventh-album-swag-3877531\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The singer surprise-released \u2018Swag\u2019<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the follow-up to 2021\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/justin-bieber-justice-review-2900928\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Justice\u2019<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 in July, before sharing the sequel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/justin-bieber-announces-new-album-swag-ii-via-billboards-around-the-world-3890181\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Swag II\u2019<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month. In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/justin-bieber-swag-ii-review-3890443\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a three-star review of the latter<\/a>,\u00a0NME\u00a0wrote: \u201cIt\u2019s frustrating because there\u2019s plenty of great material scattered across these two parts, which would be far stronger as a single, shorter release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPut bluntly, you have to wonder: did this\u00a0really\u00a0need to be a double album?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other news, earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/coachella-2026-line-up-fans-point-out-the-big-surprises-lower-down-the-bill-3892827\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bieber hit out at what he labelled \u201cgossip\u201d and \u201clies\u201d about his private life after he attended Coachella 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/ed-sheeran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Sheeran<\/a> recently shared that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/ed-sheeran-reveals-play-song-camera-was-almost-a-duet-with-justin-bieber-3895884\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his song \u2018Camera\u2019 was almost a duet with Bieber<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Bieber has previewed new music and told fans he feels \u201cvulnerable as hell\u201d in a new stream.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,1581,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-240736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-pop","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}