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- On Tuesday, May 13, Justin Bieber posted an Instagram carousel that included 13 different videos and an unrecognizable face filter
- In the various videos, he spoke about his faith, relationship with God and values he “lives by”
- The singer also made claims that he lived in Alaska as a teenager and had an affinity for fishing
Justin Bieber is talking about a wide range of topics — from faith and fishing to honor and integrity — in his recent Instagram post.
The two-time Grammy winner posted an Instagram carousel that included 13 different videos of him speaking directly to the camera with a filter that distorted his face and altered his voice to a higher pitch.
In the Tuesday, May 13 post, the 31-year-old musician opened with claims that he lived in Alaska from ages 17 to 19. He recalled “Alaska living,” and said he would “reel in” fish and could catch “a half a dozen on a good day.” Bieber is from Canada and has never gone on record saying he lived in Alaska after rising to fame when he was 12 years old in 2009.
He then started sharing a different train of thought, and beginning on slide three, he said: “I don’t mean to get in between the stuff you got going on and the people around ya, it’s what we like to say, it’s no buena.”
“Question, you ask around, you say, ‘You’re worried about the what,’ ” he then said in a short clip on slide four. Then slide five featured him saying, “You’ve been hurt. You’ve been afraid. You have been shut down. But let me tell you a little something,” and the video seemingly continued on slide six.
“G-o-d. Our boy Jesus, he’s got a plan, and he works all things together for Gucci,” he said, before clarifying, “Gucci is what we mean when we mean good.”
He then pivoted his sentiment and said, “They want to be like a rat, stealing your cheese. Running the little wheel, going crazy, trying to take away every last bit of your sanity.”
On slide eight, he asked, “Are you tired of them telling you, ‘You must become like your older brother Marcus?’ ‘You must become like your older sister Helga?’ ‘You must become like so-and-so that you work with until you retire?’ And you say…,” but the video cut out once more.
On slide nine, Bieber said, “I live by two things: loyalty and conviction. Now, let me tell you one thing about loyalty. I’m always there for the people that made me, because that’s just the kind of guy.”
“Two things I need you to focus on — it’ll change your whole life — sacrifice and hard work. Are you willing to sacrifice the very bones in your body? I am,” the singer continued in the next slide.
“For the next man? That’s just what I do. Is that what you would do? I don’t think so,” he said at the start of the video on slide 11. He then followed up with the 12th slide: “I live by two truths that’s honor and integrity. Now those two truths, they leave me with this. They leave me with purpose. They leave me with the desire to please. Now I want to please.”
He concluded the Instagram carousel with a short clip where he said, “I wanna tease ya. I wanna lima bean squeeze ya, but that ain’t the dealio here,” and like the other clips, it abruptly came to an end.
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Before his Tuesday post, Bieber published a series of Instagram posts on Friday, May 9, sharing how he feels like a “selfish” person who’s “hurt others unintentionally” but instead wants to focus on spreading love.
In recent months, ongoing speculation about his mental health has circulated following several vulnerable social media posts. His recent Instagrams have included messages about his “anger issues”, having “nothing to prove,” feeling “unworthy,” and a cryptic note about letting “go of hate by first acknowledging it’s there.”
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