On Feb. 14, 2020, the same day that Justin Bieber's new album was
released, YouTube — the platform on which he'd famously been discovered —
celebrated its
15th birthday. A cherubic, shaggy-haired Bieber was even a few years
younger than that when he started uploading videos to the streaming
site. These digital time capsules still exist in their original forms:
covers of songs by Chris Brown, Justin Timberlake, and Ne-Yo,
all marked with the not-quite-hashtag-catchy description "Justin
singing." The videos' descriptions link to his Myspace page, and some of
them clarify that his last name "sounds like Beeber." In the clip for
his cover of "Cry Me a River," the body of his acoustic guitar looks bigger than he is.
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