![]() Though this was just five years ago, the ecosystem for a burgeoning pop icon was much different. He abandoned the tour before it was over, his battery fully drained. ![]() ![]() When he went on tour the following year, he dangled above screaming arena crowds in a Lucite box, an actual captive enacting his trauma in real time. He was also, it turned out, a prisoner of that regret. Coming on the heels of a few years of public disintegration, he’d been humbled, or wished to appear that way: a handed-the-world boy forced to disavow the person fame had turned him into, singing lissome songs of apology. The last time Justin Bieber released an album - “Purpose,” in 2015, three lifetimes ago - he was penitent and regretful.
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