Justin Bieber stood on business for his long-awaited Coachella set.

After days of rehearsal clips and fan speculation, the singer finally hit the main stage on Saturday, April 11, for a performance that felt part concert, part scrapbook, part late-night YouTube spiral. He pulled heavily from Swag and Swag II, brought out a stacked lineup of collaborators, and then, in true Bieber fashion, took fans all the way back to the beginning by literally revisiting his old internet life onstage.

If you missed Bieberchella, here are the moments everyone is talking about.

One of the night’s softest moments came during “Everything Hallelujah,” when Justin changed the lyrics to shout out the people closest to him. “Mom and dad, hallelujah. Hailey babe, hallelujah. Baby Jack, hallelujah,” he sang, while the camera found Hailey in the crowd. It was very much an “aww” moment, and one that made the massive festival set feel surprisingly intimate. And yes, Oscar piggy got a shout out too.

Justin did not just rely on nostalgia to carry the night. He also brought out a strong lineup of collaborators, including Tems, Wizkid, Dijon, Mk.gee, and The Kid LAROI. Tems joined him for “I Think You’re Special” and “Essence,” while Wizkid also appeared for the latter. Dijon and Mk.gee helped deepen the newer, more stripped-back sound Justin has been leaning into, and Kid LAROI added another burst of familiarity to the set. It felt less like random stunt-casting and more like a map of the artists shaping his current era.

Justin also leaned directly into one of the internet’s favorite recent Bieber moments by recreating his viral “it’s not clocking to you that I’m standing on business” rant during the set. It could have felt forced, but instead it landed exactly the way it needed to: cheeky, self-aware, and very online. The crowd was already in on the joke, which made the whole thing hit even harder.

At one point, Justin basically turned the Coachella main stage into his own iPad time. He scrolled through old videos, funny clips, and internet moments as if the entire audience was just hanging out with him while he went down a rabbit hole. The best moments came from him playing old mishap clips, including crashing into a glass door and falling onstage, before also pulling up classic internet memes. Fans online specifically died at “Deez Nuts” and “Double Rainbow” among the videos that appeared. It was weird, funny, and so on brand for Bieber.

Once Justin started revisiting the early material, the whole set took on a different energy. He sang along with older clips of himself for songs like “Baby,” “Never Say Never,” “That Should Be Me,” “Favorite Girl,” and “Beauty and the Beat,” turning the performance into a duet between present-day Bieber and the version of him fans first met online. Reviewers described the segment as one of the most nostalgic parts of the night, and it is easy to see why. It was fan service, but it was also a reminder of just how long he has been doing this.

The most emotional throwback came when Justin played his 2008 cover of Chris Brown’s “With You,” the very YouTube clip that helped get him discovered by Usher and Scooter Braun. He smiled as he watched it play on the big screen, and for a second, the whole thing stopped feeling like nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake. It felt like he was actually taking stock of how far he had come.

Of course, Bieber was not just there to revisit the archives. A major part of the set was also devoted to Swag and Swag II, giving the Coachella crowd one of its first big live tastes of this newer material. He opened with tracks from the recent albums and kept circling back to them throughout the night, weaving newer songs between the throwback-heavy moments. That mix of old Bieber and current Bieber is what made the whole set feel less like a greatest-hits run and more like a live update on where he is now.

Hailey was there, of course, but so were plenty of famous friends. Reports and social posts from the night also spotted Kylie Jenner, Timothée Chalamet, Katy Perry, and Justin Trudeau in the crowd. Perry, apparently, even joked when Justin pulled up YouTube onstage, “Thank God he has Premium. I don’t wanna see no ads.” Honestly, fair.

For a performer who has spent years being watched, interpreted, and memed into oblivion, Bieber’s Coachella set felt unusually direct. He gave the crowd the hits, the jokes, the old internet relics, and a chance for his fans to connect with him exactly the way he did twenty years ago.