PIC: Justin Bieber uses image of the Rock of Cashel to vent about awards shows on Instagram

Biebs knows a beautiful landmark when he sees one.

On Sunday night, Justin Bieber performed a couple of songs at the Billboard Awards, where he took home a couple of gongs, including one for Top Male artist.

Viewers noticed that Bieber wasn’t exactly on top of his game and he didn’t say much during his acceptance speech either.

After posting a couple of pictures on Instagram of him performing at the awards and receiving an award from Jessica Alba, he then went onto explain why he wasn’t in the best of form and it’s to do with his attitude towards award shows in general.

Which is all well and good but what we’re more interested in is why he accompanied the explanation with a picture of the beautiful Rock of Cashel, which manages to look pretty eerie due to the dark clouds overhead, even with the presence of a few sheep in the foreground.

I don’t know about these award shows.. No disrespect to anybody at any of the shows or the people running it. Nothing but love for you guys and your support. But I don’t feel good when I’m there nor after. I try to think of it as a celebration but can’t help feeling like people are rating and grading my performance. A lot of people in the audience there to be seem worried about how much camera time they will get or who they can network with. When I’m doing a regular show I feel they are there for the right reasons and to strictly have a good time! But these award shows seem so hollow. I get the premise is to award people for their accomplishments, but is it really? Because when I look in the audience I see a bunch of fake smiles so that when the camera hits them they look happy. Sure there are people truly proud of others so I don’t want to knock them I’m just looking at the vast majority. I just think to myself if I’m living my purpose I want the reward to be fulfillment. I’m getting awarded for the things that I’m doing and not for who I am which is understandable I know it would probably be hard to calculate and award someone’s spirit lol. But When I do get these awards the temptation of putting my worth in what I do is so hard to fight!!!I am privileged and honored to be recognized by my peers in but in these settings I can’t feel the recognition. There’s an authenticity missing that I crave! And I wonder does anybody else.. Sorry not sorry about grammar it’s not my strong point

A photo posted by Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) on May 23, 2016 at 8:42am PDT

Indeed, the fact that the picture used by Bieber is one of the first that comes up when you search for the Rock of Cashel in Google Images would seem to indicate that he searched for it specifically.

Bieber’s connection with Ireland has been well-established after he offered his congratulations to Robbie Keane following Ireland’s victory over Germany late last year, but we’re not sure about the connection with one of the country’s most famous landmarks.

Love to my brother Keano and the Irish squad on a big win today. Got this vid of them listening to #WhatDoYouMean after the win. Love it.

— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) October 9, 2015

Tell us Justin, what do you mean?

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