Justin Bieber

trying to work out a unified theory of paparazzi

As goofy and terrible as he is, I can't help sympathizing with Biebs here. He deserves his own lil' personal freak out.

^^
yes.

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120529002615/parappatherapper/images/b/b8/Parappa_one.jpg

i feel like the guy crossing the street should be Colin Farrell and nobody noticed it.

where can i get a knit cap w/ year of MY birth on it

(go ahead)

wrote a short song for the Biebs over this

:D

please call it "Let Me At 'Em"

Whitehouse wrote a song for the other guy

shades of Jay Kay in that video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRKc_AgAniI

christ that's horrible what a tossbag.

I really should have clicked on this thread earlier... that Bieber vs. Pap clip is fucking gold!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/8abc8bd84f59476baeabdeb63bd152bb/tumblr_mjgjmq1DK71qhi11io1_500.jpg

hahaha

Aw, I just listened to aerosmith's song and I feel guilty.

http://pitchfork.com/news/49873-watch-john-darnielle-defends-justin-bieber-lectures-paparazzi-in-song/

hah, great little song

awww, cute!

(but I wonder if the abortion line is a subtle dig at Justin's pro-life-ish mom and Justin's own comments on the issue)

(...or maybe sometimes a simple little song is just a simple little song & I am seriously overthinking things http://i.imgur.com/M0HrXGW.jpg)

Darnielle is quite outspoken on women's reproductive rights, and used to work in the health care. So, maybe a subtle dig, but more likely just an issue at the forefront of his mind.

http://i.imgur.com/M0HrXGW.jpg

Lonely guy just thinking baout things

Hey, good song!

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2013/3/12/12/anigif_enhanced-buzz-7116-1363106595-39.gif

So whatcha, whatcha, whatcha want?

http://i.imgur.com/M0HrXGW.jpg

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2013/3/12/12/anigif_enhanced-buzz-7116-1363106595-39.gif
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5935fx15CU
http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2013/3/12/12/anigif_enhanced-buzz-7116-1363106595-39.gif

http://media.marketwire.com/attachments/201209/TN-83248_JustinBieberDuckTape-Roll.jpg

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BHzrXbuCUAAgLN-.jpg

Lol @ credulous twats actually falling for this.

well, it was posted on The Anne Frank House's Facebook, so I think it's true.

I couldn't see it when I looked a few minutes ago but wau.

breaking news: justin bieber summer camp announced

http://i.imgur.com/I9cucl7.jpg

i am so dustin bober

i'll bet his swagger coach told him to write that

LOL @ people who yell "hoax!" at everything for the pleasure of being right one time in ten

those cynical unbeliebers

chasing that pleasure with such a small ratio of return, the fools

In fairness when I initially looked at the Anne Frank House FB page it wasn't actually on the page, unless there was a linked picture of Bieber somewhere I didn't notice, and that screengrab looks mocked up as hell. It still feels made up, like something out of a deliberate parody.

"Great girl" is probably worse than "belieber".

Anne Frank, cracking bunch of lads.

bieber likes to keep things casual that's just his style

but yeah, i agree with you his statement about anne frank was pretty weird/borderline offensive

However, there is a simple explanation for the comment, a source tells PEOPLE.

"Justin took the time to visit the museum after reading Anne Frank's diaries – he wanted to follow-up by visiting her house. Someone told Justin during the tour that Anne was very into pop culture and probably would've been a fan of Justin," the source says.

"It's sad that people are so quick to criticize without understanding the context with which he made those comments."

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20691317,00.html

"Someone told Justin during the tour that Anne was very into pop culture and probably would've been a fan of Justin,"

I say again: SWAGGER COACH

That explanation doesn't make it sound any less like Justin Bieber lives in his own reality with himself at the center.

That explanation doesn't make it sound any less like Justin Bieber lives in his own reality with himself at the center

Wow, and him a pop star after all, whodathoughtit?

I don't normally open up this thread, so I didn't hear on the radio until this morning what this is all about. I'm completely fine with what he said. Above and beyond the fact that he was, in his own clumsy and egocentric way, trying to say something nice, I sometimes think kids forget that Anne Frank--or MLK, or, in my own country, Terry Fox--were actually real people. They're presented with this deified, remote textbook figure from the time they enter school, and after a while, I get the feeling--as a teacher, from first-hand observation--they just tune out anything further you have to say. Suggesting that Anne Frank, in another context, might have had feelings similar to other teenage girls does not seem like the worst thing in the world to me. (I'll cut him some slack and assume he meant in another context--not that in the middle of her actual horrors she would have found time for Justin Bieber.)

A friend of Ann Powers noted this more specifically in re: Frank, pop culture and being a 'real' person:

I am sure that this is not what Beiber had in mind, but it is true that Anne Frank did keep up with Hollywood fan and gossip magazines and particularly liked Deanna Durbin, who was, arguably, even more manufactured than Justin Beiber (whatever you think of either of them). Both Durbin and Beiber were/are heavily promoted teen "singers"; both were popular among younger kids because of their anodyne, nonthreatening good looks (Durbin was engineered by the studio as the "wholesome, attractive" opposition to Judy Garland's actual talent but somewhat swarthy appearance). It's not flattering for Beiber, but it also means that he might not be totally wrong.

the "wholesome, attractive" opposition to Judy Garland's actual talent but somewhat swarthy appearance

weird

swarthy judy

i really don't see a problem with Bieb'ers comment

It's just the word 'belieber'; it makes me want to set anyone who uses it on fire.