Justin Bieber has a message for the media.
So, apparently, JB has been googling his name – but he’s not exactly thrilled with the search results that have been coming up.
The Biebs took to Instagram Stories on Thursday (November 19) to show a video of his Google Image search, which showcased photos of him from the premiere night of his YouTube documentary Seasons back in January as the top results.
“I don’t know what the algorithm is for why certain photos come up, but this is so frustrating considering that I took a lot of time to get healthy and I feel as though people try to legitimately sabotage me,” Justin said in the video.
“This was a time where I was really unhealthy. I was battling Lyme disease, right? All of the top photos are me looking disheveled, right? I was obviously going through a tough time, but it’s like, these are the photos that the media tries to run with,” he continued.
“I don’t know if they do it because they try to… there are so many new photos that I’ve serviced to the media and they continue to use these photos. So it’s like, what’s the deal? I don’t know,” he added.
“It’s frustrating me. I wish they would change it. I’ve asked them to change it. I’ve done a lot of photo shoots since then and yeah, they don’t have to put these photos, but they do. I don’t know why. I mean, look at my skin now. There are so many photos they can choose,” he concluded.
However, the likely reason behind the results is because those photos are the most recent ones available on professional photo sites. The premiere was the last time the Justin had walked the red carpet, and there hasn’t exactly been a lot of red carpet events these past months – which might account for those particular photos being the most used.
Also making headlines is Justin and Shawn Mendes’ collab “Monster.” Over the past few months, there have been speculations that the two were working together after they were spotted at the same recording studio in Los Angeles on the same day – and the new track, which is part of Shawn’s new album, Wonder, confirms it.
Prior to the release, Shawn spilled the tea on how their collab came to be.
“I think I was coming off the back of a couple of big songs and definitely just so driven by my ego and just feeling like something in this feels not right. And it’s always resonated with me. This song has always resonated with me and it just never found its way out,” Shawn told Zane Lowe on Apple Music.
“And now all of a sudden I was listening to it one day, and I just started my relationship with Justin. It just started forming properly in the last three months. And I called him and I was like, ‘Look, I have this song. It’s kind of going there.’ We go there,” he continued. “It’s about how society can put celebrities up on a pedestal and watch them fall and it seems to be this entertainment thing. And it’s hard. And his heart fell deep into it. And him and I, even yesterday, were on the phone for an hour and had the deepest conversation, I think, about so much.”
“It just felt really nice because it was a full circle moment for me, this guy who was the reason I started singing. I was nine when “One Time” came out, and I completely was all in,” Shawn added. “He was Elvis to me. And to come back around and to have this very human to human conversation with him and his truth to come into that song and my truth to be there, it feels like one of the most special songs I’ve ever wrote. And the more I listened to it and the deeper I get into it, this is not just about celebrities. This is the human experience.”
