That explanation doesn't make it sound any less like Justin Bieber lives in his own reality with himself at the center.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 15 April 2013 06:53 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― Tom D (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2013 09:44 (eleven years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Monday, 15 April 2013 11:32 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 April 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
the "wholesome, attractive" opposition to Judy Garland's actual talent but somewhat swarthy appearance
weird
― how's life, Monday, 15 April 2013 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
swarthy judy
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 15 April 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
i really don't see a problem with Bieb'ers comment
― frogbs, Monday, 15 April 2013 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
It's just the word 'belieber'; it makes me want to set anyone who uses it on fire.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 15 April 2013 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
well that's your beliebf
― frogbs, Monday, 15 April 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
i mean, what cute pun on the name "bieber" would you prefer shakey?
― Pat Finn, Monday, 15 April 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
sorry i meant "scik" i read ur name too quickly
clemenza otm
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 April 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
Cynthia Ozick's great essay depicting how Otto Frank turned his daughter from a human being into a symbol is relevant here.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 April 2013 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
fyi this is Deanna Durbin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inV3RlOTOXM
this is Justin Bieber:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GuqB1BQVr4
just putting that out there so ppl can really feel the comparison
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Monday, 15 April 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
she would definitely ditch that stuffy opera singing broad for the biebinator if she was given the choice
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 15 April 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
It's not about whether it's thinkable or not. You probably shouldn't say stuff like that about yourself even if (many) people are giving you a reason to think it might be true. It's not a good look.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 15 April 2013 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
this whole european tour has been comedy gold
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 April 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
“I prayed, ‘God, you don’t want this Jewish kid to be Justin’s man, do you?...God, I gave him to you. You could send me a Christian man, a Christian label!’” -- Pattie Mallette in The New York Times, 2009.
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Monday, 15 April 2013 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
Deanna Durbin was great, Anne Frank otm.
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Monday, 15 April 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
Deanna Durbin or Justin Beiber, it really doesn't matter, either way she wouldn't have been blasting any tunes up in that attic. Now if the Frank family had access to ipods and headphones, that may have been a game changer.
― Moodles, Monday, 15 April 2013 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
the whole point is that writing the word "belieber" in anne frank's guest book is just a truly spectacular example of the absurdity of all human existence imo
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 15 April 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
probably wasn't even the first time
― some dude, Monday, 15 April 2013 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
haha god
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 15 April 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
it's hard to belieb.
― Pat Finn, Monday, 15 April 2013 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
I always get Deanna Durbin confused with Deanna Dunagan, who won a Tony for August: Osage County.
― jaymc, Monday, 15 April 2013 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
I'd imagine Justin Bieber's probably somewhat of a idiot from a book learnin' perspective, he probably hasn't gone to school since he was 13.
― earlnash, Monday, 15 April 2013 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
He was home-schooled before getting discovered, IIRC.
― R = J - L (Leee), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://gawker.com/5994914/anne-franks-stepsister-she-would-have-probably-been-a-belieber
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR6wfJ4SyrQ
tbh is this not in spirit p much a proto edm dj got me falling in love banger for 1948
she's even chatting on the mic, wheel it up my selecta
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
<3
― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
Selena Gomez Says Bieber Has ‘Tiny, Weird Penis’
― davey, Monday, 6 May 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
daily currant is a shitty "fake news" satire site fwiw
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Monday, 6 May 2013 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
Hahaha. Aw.
― davey, Monday, 6 May 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
I was a belieber.
― davey, Monday, 6 May 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
for some reason i felt genuine relief when i found out that wasn't a true story
― we r all just trying to interpret reality in a way that's comforting (Treeship), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
So did JBieb.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
@tejucole What fresh hell is this? RT @justinbieber: AFRICA
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
he's in capetown
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
sweet tweet, bieb!
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
Is it 3012 yet.
― Murder in the Rue McClanahan (jaymc), Saturday, 15 June 2013 04:57 (ten years ago) link
soon
― markers, Saturday, 15 June 2013 04:57 (ten years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/079399da06aa1237ae9d409600231ef2/tumblr_inline_mp0rq4Nkys1qz4rgp.gifhttp://media.tumblr.com/079399da06aa1237ae9d409600231ef2/tumblr_inline_mp0rq4Nkys1qz4rgp.gifhttp://media.tumblr.com/079399da06aa1237ae9d409600231ef2/tumblr_inline_mp0rq4Nkys1qz4rgp.gif
― you live your life on the floor (sleepingbag), Thursday, 27 June 2013 02:19 (ten years ago) link
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ca8e174a54/between-two-ferns-with-zach-galifianakis-justin-bieber
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Thursday, 26 September 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
http://gawker.com/justin-bieber-orders-bodyguards-to-carry-him-up-chinas-1433222500
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link
Fuck this dude.
http://nationalreport.net/justin-biebers-beached-whale-comment-leads-teen-girls-suicide/
― The Reverend, Sunday, 22 December 2013 08:36 (ten years ago) link
jfc
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 December 2013 08:38 (ten years ago) link
tumblr seems to think it's a hoax, "nationalreport.net" also has an article up claiming the duck dynasty guy has a gay lover
― the slow death of America's rich pastoral heritage (reddening), Sunday, 22 December 2013 11:29 (ten years ago) link
yeah it's a spoof site, tho in what way exactly is this supposed to be 'funny' is a real headscratcher
― Mind Taker, Sunday, 22 December 2013 12:02 (ten years ago) link
a fitting end to justin bieber's career: all the news is unflattering spoofs
― katherine, Sunday, 22 December 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
similar to that recent "kanye compares himself to nelson mandela" fake news story that basically took advantage of the fact that it was so similar to all the other bullshit he's actually said lately
― some dude, Sunday, 22 December 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link