Justin Bieber (and his laptop) headline Coachella Night 2

So this is however 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 fractional an hr successful the mediate of his set, what Bieber did was beryllium down a laptop and sing on to his aged euphony videos — often an octave down from wherever helium recorded them — arsenic helium searched up the songs connected YouTube and played them implicit the festival’s state-of-the-art dependable system.

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

Expectations were insanely precocious for this amusement — Bieber’s archetypal large-scale performance aft a fewer years helium spent successful the pop-star wilderness recovering from assorted wellness ailments of some the carnal and intelligence variety.

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

And so that’s what helium did for the archetypal half-hour oregon so, singing songs similar “All I Can Take,” “Speed Demon” and “Butterflies” — and singing them with utmost precision — accompanied by prerecorded backing tracks; aft that, helium brought retired Carter Lang and Dylan Wiggins — 2 of his closest “Swag” collaborators — to bash much of the “Swag” worldly “up adjacent and idiosyncratic with you guys,” arsenic helium enactment it.

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

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

Then: “Feels similar we gotta instrumentality 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 with “Baby” and included “Never Say Never” and “Beauty and a Beat” — that made you wonderment astir the unresolved trauma he’s inactive dealing with from his child-star days. (Second nighttime successful a enactment for that, by the way, aft Sabrina Carpenter connected Friday.)

“How acold backmost bash you go?” helium asked the assemblage astatine 1 point. “Are you truly with the 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 the paparazzi and their rapacious ways.

“These guys won’t permission you alone, bro,” helium said earlier playing that celebrated video of the feline freaking retired implicit the treble rainbow.

The last information of the amusement had Bieber doing “Yukon,” past “Devotion” with Dijon — the vocals! — past “Essence” with Tems and Wizkid.

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