{"id":3913,"date":"2014-03-10T22:35:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T05:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2014-03-10T22:35:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T05:35:13","slug":"justin-bieber-surprises-with-performance-during-sxsw-dedicates-song-to-selena-gomez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/10\/justin-bieber-surprises-with-performance-during-sxsw-dedicates-song-to-selena-gomez\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Bieber surprises with performance during SXSW; dedicates song to Selena Gomez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1897939_10152399497403888_1777582046_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3914\" alt=\"1897939_10152399497403888_1777582046_n\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1897939_10152399497403888_1777582046_n-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1897939_10152399497403888_1777582046_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1897939_10152399497403888_1777582046_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1897939_10152399497403888_1777582046_n.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Facebook Page of Justin Bieber<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8211;Justin Bieber has kicked off the music portion of South by Southwest before the real program begins.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old pop star surprised a small crowd at Banger&#8217;s Sausage House &amp; Beer Garden in Austin, Texas, on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Audience member Ashley Gregg said Monday that Bieber performed two songs, dedicating &#8220;Boyfriend&#8221; to ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez, who was backstage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This goes out to my baby girl,&#8221; Bieber told a crowd of about 100 people.<\/p>\n<p>The bar was hosting an event for Bieber&#8217;s manager, Scooter Braun. Surprise performers included Bieber and boy band The Wanted. Cody Simpson, Dan + Shay, Tori Kelly and Rixton, who are among Braun&#8217;s clients, also performed.<\/p>\n<p>The music portion of South by Southwest, which will feature Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Willie Nelson and Kendrick Lamar, starts Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Online:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sxsw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/sxsw.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Facebook Page of Justin Bieber NEW YORK &#8211;Justin Bieber has kicked off the music portion of South by Southwest &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hollywood","mauthors-mesfin-fekadu","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}