{"id":257316,"date":"2025-12-30T03:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/257316\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T03:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:37:08","slug":"justin-bieber-calls-for-a-safer-and-more-honest-music-industry-after-child-stardom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/257316\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Bieber calls for a &#8216;safer&#8217; and &#8216;more honest&#8217; music industry after child stardom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Bieber is calling for meaningful change in the music industry, saying it must become \u201csafer\u201d and \u201cmore honest\u201d for future young artists in the spotlight. The 31-year-old singer, who rose to global fame as a teenager, reflected on his early years in the business and said he was not adequately protected as a child star.<\/p>\n<p>Bieber\u2019s career was accompanied by intense pressure and public scrutiny, alongside well-documented personal struggles, including his 2014 arrest that resulted in a reckless driving conviction. Now, he says those experiences left lasting emotional scars.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSp8VEVD4sA\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSp8VEVD4sA\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram <\/a>posts, Bieber credited his Christian faith with helping him heal. He wrote: \u201cI grew up in a system that rewarded my gift but didn&#8217;t always protect my soul. There were moments I felt used, rushed, shaped into something I didn&#8217;t fully choose. That kind of pressure leaves wounds you don&#8217;t see on stage. I&#8217;ve carried anger, I&#8217;ve asked God why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cBut Jesus keeps meeting me in the middle of the pain &#8211; not excusing what hurt me but teaching me how not to become bitter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bieber stressed that his message is not rooted in resentment. \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<p>Calling for industry-wide change, the \u201cBaby\u201d hitmaker continued: \u201cI don\u2019t want revenge. I want redemption. I don&#8217;t want to destroy the industry. I want it transformed.\u201d He concluded his post writing: \u201cI don&#8217;t want to burn the music industry down. I want to see it made new \u2013 safer, more honest, more human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biebs returned to music this year with the album releases \u201cSwag\u201d and \u201cSwag II,\u201d but has reservations about touring again, especially since it would keep him away from his wife, Hailey Bieber, and their son Jack. During a Halloween Twitch livestream, he explained: \u201cTouring takes so much out of you, and I\u2019ve done it since I was a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Bieber is set to headline Coachella in 2026, he says future performances may be limited, favoring short, multi-night engagements over extended global tours. &#8220;I really wanna do spot-date where I pick a city and do a couple of shows and not commit to a whole two years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Bieber is calling for meaningful change in the music industry, saying it must become \u201csafer\u201d and \u201cmore&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[133121,133122,47047,18,117,19,17,741,167,337,3323,133123,75173],"class_list":{"0":"post-257316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-child-stardom","9":"tag-christian-faith","10":"tag-coachella","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-justin-bieber","16":"tag-mental-health","17":"tag-music","18":"tag-music-industry","19":"tag-redemption","20":"tag-touring"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115806434318155624","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}