Justin Bieber (and His Laptop) Headline Coachella Night 2

So this is really we find retired Justin Bieber is simply a YouTube Premium subscriber.

The 32-year-old teen-pop subsister headlined Coachella connected Saturday night, and for astir half an hr successful nan mediate of his set, what Bieber did was beryllium down a laptop and singing on to his aged euphony videos — often an octave down from wherever he recorded them — arsenic he searched up nan songs connected YouTube and played them complete nan festival’s state-of-the-art sound system.

YouTube Premium, that is, fixed that he (and we) faced nary ads during nan performance.

Expectations were insanely precocious for this show — Bieber’s first large-scale performance aft a fewer years he spent successful nan pop-star wilderness recovering from various wellness ailments of some nan beingness and intelligence variety.

Invite-only warm-up gigs he played complete nan past mates of weeks successful L.A. led to wide speculation that astatine Coachella he mightiness play only worldly from past year’s “Swag” and “Swag II” comeback albums.

And so that’s what he did for nan first half-hour aliases so, singing songs for illustration “All I Can Take,” “Speed Demon” and “Butterflies” — and singing them pinch utmost precision — accompanied by prerecorded backing tracks; aft that, he brought retired Carter Lang and Dylan Wiggins — 2 of his closest “Swag” collaborators — to do much of nan “Swag” worldly “up adjacent and individual pinch you guys,” arsenic he put it.

“This is simply a nighttime I dreamed astir for a agelong time,” he said, dressed successful a reddish hoodie, shorts and Paddington-gone-Balenciaga rainfall boots.

Together nan 3 did gorgeous Christian-youth-group white-soul renditions of “Things You Do” and “Glory” and “Everything Hallelujah,” nan past of which Bieber utilized to outcry retired his wife, Hailey Baldwin, who was successful nan crowd and made herself disposable to Coachella’s roving cameras.

Then: “Feels for illustration we gotta return you guys connected a spot of a journey,” Bieber said. “You guys retrieve this song?”

That was his ain cue for a YouTube heavy dive — it started pinch “Baby” and included “Never Say Never” and “Beauty and a Beat” — that made you wonderment astir nan unresolved trauma he’s still dealing pinch from his child-star days. (Second nighttime successful a statement for that, by nan way, aft Sabrina Carpenter connected Friday.)

“How acold backmost do you go?” he asked nan crowd astatine 1 point. “Are you really pinch nan s—?”

Bieber went connected to play much-memed videos of himself moving into a revolving doorway and himself falling disconnected a stage; that led to an unfortunate small digression astir nan paparazzi and their rapacious ways.

“These guys won’t time off you alone, bro,” he said earlier playing that celebrated video of nan feline freaking retired complete nan double rainbow.

The last information of nan show had Bieber doing “Yukon,” past “Devotion” pinch Dijon — nan vocals! — past “Essence” pinch Tems and Wizkid.

“Tonight has been beautiful,” Bieber said earlier bringing retired Mk.gee to adjacent pinch “Daisies,” and he was right: This was a extremist reframing of what a headlining Coachella capacity is expected to be, and I loved it.