It’s easy for people to forget just how young pop star and fashion trendmaker Justin Bieber really is. Bieber became famous so early — and the internet and social media have made the news cycle speed up so fast — that Bieber seems like he must be older than his 25 years. Beiber is, of course, more mature now than when he first burst onto the scene, especially musically.
And as an entrepreneur Bieber is capitalizing on every aspect of his fame in expanding his business empire. All this while in the real — or better, the regular — world, many 25-year-olds are living with their parents working in the gig economy. While they are trying to find a future, Bieber is unusual in that he already has a giant past. Yet despite his achievements, Beiber still struggles with who he is and what it all means, as conscientious people of any age do. A recent post saw him admit to how vulnerable he is in his relationship with God — and that’s a good thing, he wants that, not to be “afraid” of that.
Bieber, who is currently setting records aflame on Spotify, has been in the culture so long that a New Yorker article about his stylist can begin:
“For a long time, when I thought of the pop star Justin Bieber, if I thought of him at all, the person who came to mind was a teen-age boy, with side-swept bangs and oxford shirts and hoodies, seemingly incubated in a middle-class suburban mall.”
You know you’ve been around when the writers are talking about how long they’ve had the opportunity to think about you, and how much their thinking has had time to change. But perhaps the most salient signal that Bieber is still barely into adulthood is the birth last August of his little sister. That’s right, not his daughter but his father’s daughter, Bay Bieber. Not surprisingly, she became a social media star even earlier than her big brother. Justin hit it big first on YouTube. Bay looks like in Instagram Baby if ever there was one. Justin
