Justin Bieber

Well, no, I still like him with a low voice. But the thrill is gone.

this is produced really well, they layer his vocals nicely in places

he's put out some good stuff before but i thought it would be at least another album cycle before he made his 'justified' move

It's weird to say, but I like his performance on this way better than I actually like the song.

OK, feds take me away.

by far the most interesting thing i've seen from this commodity:

http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/2012/03/19/justin-bieber-gets-beaten-to-a-pulp-in-new-video-photo-shoot/

Noam Chomski ‏ @NoamChomski Bieber is not going to tell young girls about feminism or Beauvoir's books, he is going to tell them about having fun and consuming.

(yes i realize that's not really chomsky)

i find that i feel a weird relief that biebs has finally made a decent song (maybe even a great one)
Runaway Love is a great song.

i only really like the remix w/ raekwon & kanye but i agree the remix is a great song

I love the sound of "Boyfriend" -- it really does feel like a return to production styles of ca. 2002-04 -- but I wish there was more of a tune here.

more of a tune? it's one of the most immediately catchy things i've heard this year

i'm putting on an r&b night tonight and i'm gonna play this and not tell anyone what it is

parts of this new bieber sound are remarkably similar to jesse mccartney

he's put out some good stuff before but i thought it would be at least another album cycle before he made his 'justified' move

My thoughts exactly. Otoh I can see that they had to do *something*, "My World"'s production/angle/songwriting was tethered to his pre-pubescent voice. I just wish I could say I liked this more than, uh, anything off "Justified".

Yeah, if we're extending the Justified comparison, I just wish it was closer to "Like I Love You" than to a back-half track like "Right for Me."

is 'the justified move' the most overrated thing ever? it's possible.

this is fine but i'm not that enthusiastic about it.

are those bird calls? whoooooo....

kind of feels like Bieber's entire career since the moment he got signed is about riding out The Other Justin's arc and making the Justified move feel like a grim inevitability

Yeah, if we're extending the Justified comparison, I just wish it was closer to "Like I Love You" than to a back-half track like "Right for Me."
Why's everyone always dissin Right For Me?

Has anyone since Timberlake been in a position to utilize "the Justified move"? As if this is something that's happened more than once?

it kinda depends on whether you think the key context of that album is the move from pop to R&B, from group member to solo star, from teenpop star to universal/'adult' pop icon, or whether it applies equally to female acts etc. lots of artists before or since have had rough parallels in some of those categories, Bieber's just probably the most at once (although he was never in a group).

http://justinbieberasrenaissancewomen.blogspot.com.au/

There's part of the talky vocals that reminds me of David Banner's Play. That's the only thing I dislike about it.

"Boyfriend" blows, y'all are high

I agree, this is mediocre.

"Boyfriend" bows at #2 this week, making it his highest-charting single.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1e1h33fnS1qb3wfwo1_400.png

I like-not-love it. Although he stands accused or is praised for Justinism, Timberlake in 2002 positioned himself as a sex dawg and hired Clipse; Bieber gets down on one knee to assure her of his gentlemanly credentials. The guy's still courting the G to PG crowd.

I like-not-love it.

same here. it's more Celebrity Justin than Justified Justin. baby steps.

he's not even on third album Jesse McCartney level tbh

i don't know that i've ever knowingly heard a jesse mccartney song

Is he James' brother?

those jesse mccartney singles are pretty good

ppl comparing this to "the whisper song" and "play" are high -- there's a lot more to those songs than soft rapping

eh it's not a striking similarity but i hear it

don't not like this but i'm consciously siding against it. superficial allures but its emptiness transfers over and you feel kinda used afterwards

still a great single tho, i'd have greenlighted it too

yeah it's definitely shrewd

So, I watched "Never say never" last night, it's amazing. There was a shot of Scooter Braun watching from side stage, he had tears in his eyes, and I totally get it.

if i was making bank off justin bieber i'd be crying every time i saw him perform, too

Na na na, that's what I THOUGHT, I was super cynical about the whole thing. "Usher reboots his career", Scooter makes some cheddar, a billion teenagers get obsessive. There's more to it than that, maybe? At least, there was for me. It's like seeing a highlight reel of one's own adolescence. All the good bits but with better hair and clothes.

I read something C Wilson just wrote with regards to Hirsch's "Bully":

Sitting through the vérité evidence, moment by moment, did provide a sort of therapy – not so much in the sympathy I felt for what the characters were enduring as in the way it had me constantly anticipating how the moments we were seeing would affect the lives ahead of them. Of course the lens through which I was doing that forecasting was my own experience, and so the lens became a mirror, in which I could see the threads tracing back from today to those moments of my own, way back.

And he hit the nail on the head, with regards to "why do I care about Tyler Clementi". The same observation rang true when I was watching Beibs at the bowling alley.

(In the movie, I didn't actually see Biebs at a bowling alley.)

Zac Efron got hawt after his adolescent polyurethane phase. There's hope for the Bieb.

Owen just imagine how much better it would have been if you saw it in 3D

I'm not opposed to watching it, but I'm feeling too self conscious to check it out from the library. Maybe if I check out two old Criterion titles or something at the same time...

Zac Efron got hawt after his adolescent polyurethane phase

Mmm, nope. Efron's hotness reached its apex with the Rolling Stone cover. He is now merely tapthatguy fodder.

lol

otm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb_jJgXyLqc

obviously

http://ab.img.v4.skyrock.net/ab9/justine-biber-007/pics/2926867357_1_3.gif

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201206/justin-bieber-gq-june-2012-interview?printable=true