Justin Bieber

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

This article almost makes me feel sorry for him.

We head into his studio, where Aldred greets Bieber and pumps him up for the evening by ripping the sleeves off of his T-shirt while he's still wearing it. OUTTA MY WAY, SLEEVES. This is clearly not the first time they've performed this ritual. It's Bieber's patented entrance move, his talcum powder tossed in the air. Being Justin Bieber means having an endless number of T-shirts to destroy.

punk rock lives!

article wasn't very good

Would've been way better if he'd actually gotten to smoke pot with Bieber and take him to a titty bar.

new song is good!

this is cool, kind of annoying tho

There's a glimpse of a thoughtful person in there, someone who knows he's a caged animal. We talk music, and he mentions his love for pre–"Black Album" Metallica—"One," "Fade to Black." "Those are my jams," he says.

http://www.gq.com/images/style/2012/06/justin-bieber/justin-bieber-02.jpg

i've seen that photo like 20 times now and i'm still not sure if the thing with his head is on purpose or just an epic photoshop disaster

he looks like a teen god

j0rdan so obsessed with head/neck photoshopping

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, March 26, 2012 4:15 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark

he looks more like a lesbian here than I've ever seen before.

yeah it wasnt great (or at least was predictable) but i dont think there was any way to make it better short of kidnapping biebo and harvesting his organs

so do you guys think after he washes up he'll be semi-normal, or that he'll be totally fucked up? He actually seems like he's got a reasonably good head on his shoulders, comparatively speaking.

he'll be making decent money playing a wacky meta version of himself in a shitty sitcom in 2018

He actually seems like he's got a reasonably good head on his shoulders, comparatively speaking.

not the best thing to remark on in light of recent posts

j0rdan so obsessed with head/neck photoshopping

i can tell by some of the pixels

what are you referring to? xp

we were talking about the head/body size ratio in the picture where you said he looks like a lesbian

lulz

ok, well, he's got a good head on his shoulders in that particular photo at least

actually, maybe not.

well, the head is ok, it's actually the body that is causing me confusion

so do you guys think after he washes up he'll be semi-normal, or that he'll be totally fucked up? He actually seems like he's got a reasonably good head on his shoulders, comparatively speaking.

― Poliopolice, Tuesday, May 29, 2012 3:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

he seems like a twerp to me, but a boring one with level-headed people around him, so who knows

I expect he will found a videogame company that will attempt to publish a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game

Ironically, I see a lot of weed and titty bars in his future.

there's no reason his career shouldn't look like britney or timberlake's did after they turned 18

I expect he will found a videogame company that will attempt to publish a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game

his legend will also be based on "the bloody sock" moment.

there's no reason his career shouldn't look like britney or timberlake's did after they turned 18

― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:56 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

there's no reason his career shouldn't look like the dozens of other teen stars who couldn't maintain the level of fame those 2 did, too

i mean expecting bieber to have the same career arc as timberlake just because that's what he's blatantly being groomed to do is like expecting ja rule to eventually have a discography equal to 2pac

His flow is slower than prostate cancer.

there's no reason his career shouldn't look like britney or timberlake's did after they turned 18

― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:56 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

i could totally see him going off the rails a la britney if his management wasn't so tight -- still may happen cuz he seems to have a small rebellious streak

timberlake is a high bar tho -- there's nothing really to suggest that bieber has that kind of songwriting talent, for instance -- he's supposedly some writing on this album and the songs are definitely impressive but if he ever puts out an album 75% as good as 'futuresex/lovesounds' i'd be floored

i think he could have a pretty rewarding career as a singles artist whose albums are half pretty good, half total nonsense -- but he's still far, far away from his mid-20s

I know nothing about the dude, but does he work with any auteur producers, or just hitmaker hacks? JT's smart move was hooking up with Neptunes and Timba at the peak of their powers (more or less). He had an ambitious eye for quality. The Bieb seems to be all about product right now, which is the safe move. But he's also really stupid young.

(Though even my 7-year old and her friends make fun of him, so who knows what that portends)

well, even with songwriting credits on No Strings Attached it was still impossible to recognize Justin the polymath we know today.