"Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me"
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The wording is tellingly clumsy in a human way. “Wrong decisions, or bad decisions” isn’t poetic; it’s someone circling the same bruise, trying to name it without reopening every tabloid chapter. He avoids specifics because the audience already supplies them: the surveillance of teen fame, the entitlement it can breed, the way “mistakes” become content. His critique isn’t aimed at fans or morality police; it’s aimed at the machine that fast-tracks adolescents into adult power with no adult scaffolding.
Then he pivots from diagnosis to aspiration: “To be someone that people look up to is important to me.” That’s not just image rehab; it’s a bid for agency. In pop culture, “role model” is usually a trap set by public expectations. Bieber flips it into a chosen responsibility, signaling a rebrand rooted in restraint rather than rebellion. The intent is less “forgive me” than “watch what I do next” - a statement that treats maturity as a public act, not a private feeling.
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| Topic | Learning from Mistakes |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bieber, Justin. (2026, January 16). Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/young-people-in-the-business-have-grown-up-and-126602/
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Bieber, Justin. "Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/young-people-in-the-business-have-grown-up-and-126602/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/young-people-in-the-business-have-grown-up-and-126602/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.






