Justin Bieber was nominated for four awards at the 2021 Grammy Awards, which took place on Sunday.- Bieber watched
Tom Holland 's newmovie "Cherry" on Apple TV Plus instead. - "Lazy Sunday with @tomholland2013," the singer captioned a photo on his Instagram story.
Justin Bieber, who up for four awards at the 2021 Grammys, revealed that he chose to watch Tom Holland's new movie instead.
"Lazy Sunday with @tomholland2013," the 27-year-old singer captioned a photo that showed him logged into Apple TV Plus to watch Holland's film "Cherry."
Meanwhile, the 63rd Grammys rook place on Sunday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, hosted by "The Daily Show" star Trevor Noah.
The movie was released in select theaters on February 26 and was made available on the streaming service on Friday.
Holland, known for his role as Spider-Man/Peter Parker in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, portrays an Army medic who develops a drug addiction and struggles with PTSD when he returns home from serving.
"Cherry" is based on a semi-autobiographical novel written by Nico Walker and released in 2018.
Bieber's support of the 24-year-old wasn't too left-field considering that he and Holland are fans of each other and voiced their mutual admiration during an Instagram livestream in March 2020.
Bieber's decision to watch a movie in place of the Grammys came months after the nominees were announced. At the time, he expressed confusion over landing nods in the pop categories, rather than the R&B categories.
He received four total nominations: best pop solo performance (for "Yummy"), best pop duo/group performance (for "Intentions" featuring Quavo), best pop vocal album, and best country duo/group performance (for Dan + Shay's "10,000 Hours," which he's featured on).
At the time of this article's publication, Bieber won a Grammy for his collaboration with Dan + Shay.
"Please don't mistake this as me being ungrateful, these are just my thoughts take em or leave em," Bieber captioned his Instagram post shared in November 2020. "Thank you to the people who fought for me to even have any noms."
Addressing the Grammys in his post, the Canadian singer said: "I am flattered to be acknowledged and appreciated for my artistry. I am very meticulous and intentional about my music."
Bieber, who rose to fame with pop songs like "Baby" and "One Time," said the 2020 release "was and is an R&B album."
He continued, "It is not being acknowledged as an R&B album which is very strange to me. I grew up admiring R&B music and wished to make a project that would embody that sound."
The singer added that sonically, his sixth studio album was closer to R&B than pop.
"For this not to be put into that category feels weird considering from the chords to the melodies to the vocal style, all the way down to the hip hop drums that were chosen it is undeniably, unmistakably an R&B Album!" he wrote.
Bieber concluded: "To be clear I absolutely love Pop music it was just wasn't what I set out to make this time around. My gratitude for feeling respected for my work remains and I am honored to be nominated either way."