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Coldplay’s live show has a kiss cam now—like, full NBA-style. At last week’s Boston gig, it zoomed in on tech CEO Andy Byron cuddling with his company’s HR chief, who is not his wife. She turned away, he ducked out of frame, and Chris Martin joked, “Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy.” Byron has since resigned, and his wife reportedly dropped his last name. Martin later added, “I hope we didn’t do something bad.”

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I’ve always been a little bit worried about Justin Bieber. Child stardom seldom fares well, and like most child stars, his transition into adulthood has been marked by missteps. Even now, the 31-year-old still finds himself at the center of concerning controversy. Recently, he’s taken to social media for reflection, writing candidly about his anger issues, his journey toward healing, and the mounting pressures of public scrutiny. His most recent spat with paparazzi went viral, mainly for his frankensteining of two phrases borne out of Black and Latin queer communities and commodified by the internet: “clock it” and “stand on business.”

The cringe phrase he uttered — “Is it not clocking to you that I’m standing on business” — wouldn’t just live on ironically online; it would also appear on his new album SWAG, one of several juvenile moments in an otherwise mature body of work.