--- title: Barack Obama Sings Justin Bieber's 'Sorry' in This Lip-Dub description: There aren't many things that could make Justin Bieber's "Sorry" catchier, but Barack Obama singing it may be one of them. canonical: https://time.com/4193841/barack-obama-sings-justin-bieber-sorry-lip-dub/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-26T15:44:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:13.831Z og:title: Watch Barack Obama 'Sing' Justin Bieber's 'Sorry' og:description: The President gets turned into a Belieber og:url: https://time.com/4193841/barack-obama-sings-justin-bieber-sorry-lip-dub/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Barack Obama 'Sing' Justin Bieber's 'Sorry' twitter:description: The President gets turned into a Belieber twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Barack Obama Sing Justin Bieber's 'Sorry' in This Lip-Dub  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 26, 2016 3:44 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 26, 2016 3:44 PM UTC There aren’t many things that could make Justin Bieber’s “Sorry” catchier, but [Barack Obama](http://time.com/4188583/barack-michelle-obama-sundance/) singing it may be one of them. Luckily, the team over at [Baracksdubs](https://www.youtube.com/user/baracksdubs) has created the illusion of just that. Although real footage of Obama belting out Biebs’s hit _Purpose_ single doesn’t actually exist, with some nifty splice-and-stich video editing, the popular YouTube channel was able to produce a pretty convincing presidential rendition. **Read More:** [Justin Bieber Is Very, Very, Very ‘Sorry’ in His New Song](http://time.com/4084131/justin-bieber-sorry/) Past songs from Baracksdubs have included gems such as Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’s “[Uptown Funk](http://time.com/3685704/barack-obama-sings-uptown-funk-mark-ronson-bruno-mars/),” Taylor Swift’s “[Shake It Off](http://time.com/3703027/obama-taylor-swift-shake-it-off/)” and Justin Timberlake’s “[SexyBack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWxMli6Xvw).” Watch the full video above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4193841/barack-obama-sings-justin-bieber-sorry-lip-dub/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4193841/barack-obama-sings-justin-bieber-sorry-lip-dub/"},"headline":"Watch Barack Obama Sing Justin Bieber's 'Sorry' in This Lip-Dub","datePublished":"2016-01-26T15:44:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:13.831Z","description":"The President gets turned into a Belieber","url":"https://time.com/4193841/barack-obama-sings-justin-bieber-sorry-lip-dub/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Barack Obama","Music","Justin Bieber","President","President Barack Obama"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4193841/barack-obama-sings-justin-bieber-sorry-lip-dub/","name":"Watch Barack Obama Sing Justin Bieber's 'Sorry' in This Lip-Dub"}}]}] ```