Justin Bieber - Anyone

What this video is

Released at midnight on January 1, 2021, 'Anyone' served as a culturally strategic New Year's reset anthem following the global upheaval of 2020. The video's deliberate retreat to a 1940s aesthetic — boxing gyms, period costuming, analog romance — mirrored a broader mainstream pop tendency during the pandemic era to seek comfort in cinematic nostalgia. Its fast-cut editing pace (avg 2.42s shot length, 109 scene…

Why it matters

Represents a flagship example of the 2020s nostalgia-pop music video format: a high-budget, director-driven short film using period aesthetics to amplify an 80s/90s-influenced synth-pop power ballad. Colin Tilley's signature intercutting of action and romance, combined with Elias Talbot's warm…

The director

Colin Tilley (born June 27, 1988, Berkeley, California) is a self-taught American filmmaker, music video director, and commercial director. He launched his career in 2007 and has directed more than 300 music videos. He is CEO of Boy in the Castle…