Justin Bieber Forced to Cancel Tour
LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 04: Justin Bieber is seen on January 04, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rachpoot/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
Happy birthday, Justin Bieber! He’s 29 today and has officially pulled the plug on his Justice World Tour.
Justin originally canceled the North American portion of his tour, but all remaining dates were just canceled yesterday. He announced in September he needed to step back from touring to focus on his health.
“Justin Bieber has officially CANCELLED the remaining dates of his ‘Justice World Tour’. His tour’s official Twitter page said ”Check in with your point of purchase for refunds for your show dates.”
In an open letter to fans in September, Justin said in a statement, “Earlier this year, I went public about my battle with Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, where my face was partially paralyzed. As a result of this illness, I was not able to complete the North American leg of the Justice Tour.”
He also said, “After resting and consulting with my doctors, family, and team, I went to Europe in an effort to continue with the tour. I performed six live shows, but it took a real toll on me.”
He said he was going to “make my health the priority” and “take a break from touring for the time being.”
This isn’t the first tour Justin ended early. He rescheduled his Changes Tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic and canceled his 2017 Purpose World Tour due to “unforeseen circumstances.”
Sam Smith Wears Corsets, Receives Harsh Criticisms On Twitter
While being featured in PERFECT Magazine‘s Issue 4, Sam Smith wore corsets with strings wrapped around his arm and torso. The “Unholy” singer shared the photos on social media. One showed him in a denim mini skirt/underwear outfit, which garnered a lot of attention on Twitter.
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Smith’s recent Grammy performance with Kim Petras led some people to call the English singer “satanic.” Social media was once again angered by the choice of styling for the magazine feature — which sold out — on Tuesday (February 28). As we previously reported, the Church of Satan’s magister, David Harris, told gossip website TMZ that the performance was “alright” and “nothing particularly special.” Harris even said the imagery evoked in their Grammys set is similar to what we’ve already seen from other artists: red clothing, fire and devil horns, and it’s “all kind of passé now.”
British influencer Oli London, who we reported in 2021 had undergone numerous surgeries to look like the BTS singer Jimin and identified as Korean criticized Smith’s feature. London announced his detransition the following year. Now, London said of Smith’s PERFECT feature, “Amazing is the wrong word. Try grotesque.” Adding in another tweet of Smith’s pronouns, who identifies as they/them, “Pronouns: Desperate/for/Attention.”
Those who rallied behind Smith said, “fatphobics are gonna hate, but if this was troye sivan, harry styles or lil nas they would eat them up.” While another wrote, “it’s actually crazy how many people in the quotes are so blindly fatphobic that they don’t understand what’s actually being conveyed in this photography at all… have you forgotten that it is an art form and not just for a fashion catalogue?”
See what others on Twitter had to say below:
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