Justin Bieber

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.

well that's your beliebf

i mean, what cute pun on the name "bieber" would you prefer shakey?

sorry i meant "scik" i read ur name too quickly

clemenza otm

Cynthia Ozick's great essay depicting how Otto Frank turned his daughter from a human being into a symbol is relevant here.

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

she would definitely ditch that stuffy opera singing broad for the biebinator if she was given the choice

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.

this whole european tour has been comedy gold

“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.

Deanna Durbin was great, Anne Frank otm.

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.

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

probably wasn't even the first time

haha god

it's hard to belieb.

I always get Deanna Durbin confused with Deanna Dunagan, who won a Tony for August: Osage County.

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.

He was home-schooled before getting discovered, IIRC.

http://gawker.com/5994914/anne-franks-stepsister-she-would-have-probably-been-a-belieber

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

<3

Selena Gomez Says Bieber Has ‘Tiny, Weird Penis’

daily currant is a shitty "fake news" satire site fwiw

Hahaha. Aw.

I was a belieber.

for some reason i felt genuine relief when i found out that wasn't a true story