Overview
- Justin Bieber headlined Coachella on Saturday with a roughly 90-minute, career-spanning set that marked his first major show since canceling tour dates in 2023 due to Ramsay Hunt syndrome.
- Midway through, he sat at a laptop and pulled up YouTube videos of his early hits and viral clips, singing short sections over the festival sound system and flashing memes on the big screens.
- He opened with songs from 2025’s Swag and Swag II and brought out guests including The Kid LAROI, Tems, Wizkid, Dijon and Mk.gee, while also revisiting early hits and the childhood cover videos that helped launch his career.
- The low-production, laptop-driven approach drew split reactions online, with critics calling it boring or lazy and others praising its intimacy and focus on his voice.
- He returns to the Coachella main stage on April 18 in a booking widely reported at about $10 million.