After Justin Bieber delivered his first efficiency in a 12 months for the 2024 NHL All-Star Sport earlier this month, hypothesis that the Canadian famous person could be making a shock look at Usher‘s Tremendous Bowl LVIII Halftime Present was excessive. Regardless of the thrill, that second by no means got here, and Usher has lastly revealed why.

Talking with “The Breakfast Membership,” Usher confirmed he reached out to Bieber — and just about “all people” — however the singer declined. “I honor and acknowledge the truth that my brother… I believe it might need simply been that he’s simply wanting to inform a unique story proper now, and I did perceive that,” Usher mentioned within the teaser clip. “We did have a short dialog, and we’re gonna do one thing else sooner or later.”

Usher continued, “No love misplaced or something like that. It’s quite a lot of strain for the Tremendous Bowl, clearly, for me to place collectively a present. I reached out to all people. Justin wasn’t the one particular person I spoke to about doing the Tremendous Bowl, however the second was perhaps for later.”

In 2022, Bieber was scheduled to embark on his “Justice” world tour however the trek was finally canceled with the aim of Bieber returning to deal with his well being.

Usher and Bieber have a years-long friendship {and professional} relationship that sprouted in the beginning of Bieber’s profession. In addition they share the track “Any individual to Love,” which appeared on Bieber’s debut album.

Earlier than shifting on to questions on Chris Brown, Usher predicted that “[Bieber is] going to play the Tremendous Bowl… I’ll go forward and provide you with that for the longer term. I profess that over his life as a result of he has a profession that deserves it. It simply didn’t occur, however that doesn’t imply it’s not going to.”

Watch the clip beneath.