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These Justin Bieber IG Posts Are Fueling Theories He’ll Join Usher’s Super Bowl Halftime Show

Beliebers, itā€™s time to rejoice! For the first time since canceling the Justice World Tour, Justin Bieber has made his official return to the stage.

The star had been teasing his comeback on Instagram since the beginning of January 2024, with him recently sharing photos of himself in rehearsing for performances.Ā 

After spending more than a year focusing on his health, Bieber returned to the stage on Feb. 1 in his home country of Canada. In anticipation of the 2024 NHL All-Star Weekend, Bieber held a surprise concert in Toronto, Ontario, where he performed a 30-minute acoustic set. The star-studded crowd, which included many hockey legends such as Mitch Marner and Morgan Riellygot, got to hear Biebsā€™ newer hits like ā€œPeachesā€ and ā€œGhost,ā€ as well as beloved classics like ā€œBabyā€!Ā 

With the 2024 Super Bowl quickly approaching – ahem, the Super Bowl Halftime show, if youā€™re like me and couldnā€™t care less about football – fans cannot wait for 2000s icon Usher to take the stage. More often than not, Super Bowl Halftime performances include an impressive lineup of surprise guests, and several users on X (formerly known as Twitter) are hoping Bieber will join the ā€œDJ Got Us Falling In Loveā€ artist on stage.Ā 

Iā€™d consider myself a real skeptic when it comes to fan theories, but this one seems to have a lot of merit. Usher was one of the first to discover Bieberā€™s talent as a teenager and mentored the ā€œSorryā€ singer at the beginning of his career. The two singers grew close over the years and have collaborated more times than once. Usherā€™s been featured on remixes of two of Bieberā€™s biggest hits, ā€œSomebody to Loveā€ and ā€œPeaches.ā€ Plus, die-hard Beliebers know that Usher is also featured on the song ā€œFirst Danceā€ from Justinā€™s debut album ā€œMy World.ā€Ā The two even performed together during the 53rd Grammy Awards in 2011.

With Bieber and Usher going way back, there’s a possibility they could reunite for the Super Bowl. Fans also seem to take this cryptic post on Usherā€™s Instagram as a hint!

While Iā€™m super jealous of the 2024 NHL Draft crowd, I have to say that the rehearsal pictures on Bieberā€™s Instagram are making it look like he has a lot more than just an acoustic show coming up. I sure hope heā€™s gearing up for something big, but if he does appear onstage with Usher during the 2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show, just know that Iā€™ll be fangirling.

Karly Ramnani is a junior at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, studying music industry, with a strong passion for art and journalism. They discovered this amazing community shortly after starting college, and are super stoked to a national writer for Her Campus this semester. Karly worked with Her Campus in Fall 2022 as well, as the Entertainment & Culture Editorial Intern. Other outlets they've written for include All Country News, The Honey Pop, Medium, Newsbreak, and their own startup music blog Playlists & Polaroids. They currently serve as a campus ambassador for Amazon Prime Student and Tinder. When they're not writing blogposts and music reviews, you can find them composing and performing music, putting their nose in a rom-com book, binge watching "The Summer I Turned Pretty," or crying over Taylor Swift.