We all know he’s an ass and a narciscist and one of the most annoying men on the planet. But there are also times, when he’s at the top of his game and just tripping along to his own groove, when he comes pretty close to perfection. Here he is on Skavlan, one of Scandinavia’s largest TV shows, on an illuminated stage with his signature auto-tune sound, masterfully singing about a conversation he had with his dead mother in “Only One” (his collab with Paul McCartney).

From a YouTube commenter: “The visuals on this are so simple yet so powerful. It’s almost as if this song helps to calm and focus his mind when things get too hectic or thoughts of self-doubt arise. Represented by the morphing of the light into the 3 most basic shapes, the square, circle, and triangle, he is bringing himself back to the basics and blocking out the world in order to focus his true passions.”