Justin Bieber (and his laptop) headline Coachella Night 2

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So this is how we find out Justin Bieber is a YouTube Premium subscriber.The 32-year-old teen-pop survivor headlined Coachella on Saturday night, and for roughly half an hour in the middle of his set, what Bieber did was sit behind a laptop and sing along to his old music videos — often an octave down from where he recorded them — as he searched up the songs on YouTube and played them over the festival’s state-of-the-art sound system.YouTube Premium, that is, given that he (and we) faced no ads during the performance.Expectations were insanely high for this show — Bieber’s first large-scale concert after a few years he spent in the pop-star wilderness recovering from various health ailments of both the physical and mental variety.Invite-only warm-up gigs he played over the last couple of weeks in L.A.led to widespread speculation that at Coachella he might play only material from last year’s “Swag” and “Swag II” comeback albums.And indeed that’s what he did for the first half-hour or so, singing songs like “All I Can Take,” “Speed Demon” and “Butterflies” — and singing them with extreme precision — accompanied by prerecorded backing tracks; after that, he brought out Carter Lang and Dylan Wiggins — two of his closest “Swag” collaborators — to do more of the “Swag” material “up close and personal with you guys,” as he put it.“This is a night I dreamed about for a long time,” he said, dressed in a red hoodie, shorts and Paddington-gone-Balenciaga rain boots.

Music Find out what Justin Bieber played in his headlining set and see more highlights and photos from Day 2, including Nine Inch Noize, the Strokes, Jack White, Fujii Kaze and Addison Rae.Together the three did gorgeous Christian-youth-group white-soul renditions of “Things You Do” and “Glory” and “Everything Hallelujah,” the last of which Bieber used to sho...