Justin Bieber Kicks Off Future Career as Bar Band Leader with Cover of 'Hotline Bling'

Easy listening power duo Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett have been showing up a lot on the television as of late, duetting “Baby It’s Cold Outside” in a commercial for Barnes & Noble. They sound terrific together, as anyone who listened to last year’s Cheek to Cheek knows, and to be quite honest it will be a shame if Gaga goes back to her pop career—those buzzy dance singles just obscured the reedy tone of her voice, as clear-blue on standards as that of Dinah Shore’s herself.

Though Gaga’s a unique artist in her ability to shift so far left, her progression does poses the question: what other pop stars today could fit so perfectly in a genre so opposite to the one in which they began? Taylor Swift already shifted from modern country to ‘80s pop, and it’s fun to imagine Nicki Minaj making a straight soca album, or Gwen Stefani going totally country. But Justin Bieber has done the imagining for us—if this whole EDM diva thing doesn’t work out for him, he has a promising future as the leader of a bar band in Palm Springs, or Reno, or Atlantic City.