With a slew of celebrities jumping in James Corden’s car for carpool Karaoke, the skit has brought so much attention to the ever-charming brit, James Corden, and the Late, Late, Show. The skit has featured everyone from Adele to Stevie Wonder and Michelle Obama to Elton John, which has made it a commonly visited channel on YouTube. Viewers come for the jokes but stay for the side of artists they don’t normally get to see. But nothing brings in views like a teen heartthrob.
Since Justin Beiber made an appearance in the carpool van in 2015, the YouTube video has received over 144 million views. In the video, we get to see a more candid side of Justin- pre-husband to Hailey Baldwin and post troubles in the media days. In other words, the most likable side of Beiber. The singer caught a lot of negative attention a few years back for supposedly spitting on fans and getting in trouble with his neighbors and the law. But since he’s been putting out more music he needs to fix that reputation, and what better way than to see what he’s like just going for a drive. Driving in the car can be a surprisingly personal thing to witness, whether it’s the stories we tell to take up time on road trips, or shamelessly belting out our favorite songs off-tune and too loud.
In the video, he talks about the perks of modeling for Calvin Klein, girls he’s texting, and the meaning behind some his most popular songs. But most importantly James and Justin belt out some of Justin’s early hits, like “Baby” and “Boyfriend”, that he tells James he catches flack for online. Repetitive lyrics like “swag” and “baby” still haunt the singer after putting out multiple albums with other hit songs.
Justin also comments on James’s swag and what it means while snacking on some McDonald’s fries. Justin explains that swag isn’t just about being cool, it’s about someone’s own style, James believes that he doesn’t have any. Justin doesn’t agree and the suggests that the two of them switch outfits for a part of the car ride. Justin ends up looking like a dad in James’s polo and jeans, while James makes Justin’s designer hoodie look like pajamas.
We also learn that Justin has some hidden talents. James heard a rumor that the Beibs can solve a Rubiks cube in 2 minutes. To put him on the spot, James pulls out a cube and insists that Justin prove his skills. The video of Justin furiously spinning the cube is interrupted every now and then for a taste of James and Justin’s other talent- dancing. The two to do the robot and more to Beibers EDM collaboration with Skrillex, “Where are you now”.
The trip ends on a more sentimental note with a cover an R and B hit that Justin sings along to. James asks where he’ll be in the next 10 years (mostly because of his immature reputation) and he says that he’d really like to be somewhere secure and have a family, a mature answer for the teen pop-star turned rebel turned pop star again. Justin Beiber’s carpool video was such a hit that he was featured later on, during Grammy season, catching a ride with James to the big event.
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