Justin Bieber

He's also kind of terrible.

He's better than Drake

Herpes is better than Drake! Way to set the bar!

i originally read 'famous' as 'fabulous'.
so did the wiki/allmusic thing, a few exclamation marks appeared over my head, after which i re-read the post and realised my mistake.
think i will wait for my kids to tell me what his records are like.

He's really famous/popular? I saw him in guest spots on two Nickelodeon shows -- iCarly and True Jackson VP (my 8-year old daughter watches both shows) -- and figured he was just an actor playing a country singer.

He was terrible, BTW. His voice seemed auto-tuned, and his songs seemed flat and hackneyed.

yeah but he looks like a cuet lesbian!

He's really famous/popular?

http://gawker.com/5409943/the-long-island-tween-justin-bieber-riot-of-09-pandemonium-arrests-terror+tweeting

No kidding? F---g A.

I assume that sometimes labels just keep pressing until a act is popular. I'm open to be convinced otherwise with respect to this kid's talent, but wow, those few Justin Bieber songs I heard were, at best . . . servicable? Adequate? Unmemorable? Nondescript? Maybe worse.

are you a ten year old girl with cheesy parents?

lol. Hardly. Actually, the reverse: I am a (hopefully not cheesy) parent watching the same shows as my 8-year old daughter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/fashion/03bieber.html?ref=fashion

He's got a "swagger coach"....

he makes me so uncomfortable

Did the Jonas Brothers do the same?

no

So when an Atlanta-based hip-hop manager named Scooter Braun called nearly two years ago, Ms. Mallette was confused. “I prayed, ‘God, you don’t want this Jewish kid to be Justin’s man, do you?’ ” she recalled.

‘God, you don’t want this black guy to be Justin’s swagger coach, do you?’

man, this kid is getting CALLED OUT on the internet.

the number of high school/middle school facebook groups about Bieber being 'totally a fag, like' is overwhelming.

So when an Atlanta-based hip-hop manager named Scooter Braun called nearly two years ago, Ms. Mallette was confused. “I prayed, ‘God, you don’t want this Jewish kid to be Justin’s man, do you?’ ” she recalled.

scooter braun is responsible for asher roth as well

the first bieber single is actually pretty good bcuz it was written by terius, but maybe it's just my age but his whole 'popularity' wrt screaming girls & what not just feels very fake & through-the-motions to me. his singles aren't even massively popular in the US. dude's just a trending topic, idk

He was on one of the network's New Years Eve shows and my Disney Channel watching nieces (age 10 and 13) know of him/kinda like him.

"one time" is pretty huge, jordan, idk. not saying he's worth a damn or will have another good song, but he's got a legit hit

“I have a swagger coach that helps me and teaches me different swaggerific things to do,” Bieber told the Toronto Star last month. “He has helped me with my style and just putting different pieces together and being able to layer and stuff like that.”

Or, as swagger coach Ryan Good, 24, told the Toronto paper: “Usher called me and said he thought Justin would benefit from being around a cool white boy.”

from: http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/music/story/1619297.html

http://twitter.com/thatrygood/status/6884726870

http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/37825840/n5129210_43666357_5501558.jpg

"one time" is pretty huge, jordan, idk. not saying he's worth a damn or will have another good song, but he's got a legit hit

― the bait vs. radrake david (k3vin k.), Monday, January 4, 2010 2:16 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

he just said it's not "massively popular," and he's right, it didn't even break into the top 10.

We're giving this kid a thread? Makes me ashamed of my country for the first time since Nickelback, tbh.

He Flo Rida'd The Cardigans' 'Lovefool' = point of no return.

need i remind y'all i was hating ahead of the curve: Rolling Worst Songs of 2009 (formerly 'I AM SO FUCKING APPALLED')

"youtubers with record deals" is a despicable trend no doubt and beiber's voice is bad but the tune is just fine imo

ha j0rdan actually likes the song now, contrary to his initial rxn

RIP

Death and Legacy

Bieber died following a gunshot wound sustained during a late night altercation in west Manhattan. According to local detectives, Bieber and his alleged girlfriend Selena Gomez attempted to enter a New York City nightclub with fake IDs but were recognized by several patrons. Witnesses claim Bieber was belligerent and threatened to shoot one of the bouncers. Justin subsequently reached into his coat pocket and withdrew what the NYPD has claimed to be a small .25 caliber pistol. James Rodriguez, an on duty police officer at the scene, responded by shooting Bieber once in the head. It was later determined that Beiber's handgun was errantly loaded with .22 caliber ammunition.

Paramedics arrived on scene shortly after the shooting but were unable to resuscitate Bieber, who was pronounced dead shortly before 11pm EST. The area surrounding Larry Flynt's Hustler Club on Manhattan's West 51st street has been closed off and witnesses are being questioned as the investigation into this tragic event continues. No statement has been released by Bieber's family or publicist, and no one else was injured during the altercation. Although toxicology reports have not yet been issued, several tablets of the prescription drug Dilauded were found on Gomez' person and it is speculated that both her and Bieber were intoxicated.

found that JUST before it was deleted

OMG SWAGGER COACH

everyone needs a swagger coach imo

wrong, if everyone needs a swagger coach, then who coaches those without swagger?

swagger leprechauns!

i swag when i coach
i swag when i coach
i swag when i coach
now watch me coach and swag

he really makes me feel like a paedo

http://www.damnimcute.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/carter.jpg
"damnimcute.com"

i think aaron carter was different because a. i was also 12 b. he was singing about playing basketball with shaquille o neal and having a "party" when his parents were out at dinner or whatever. beiber is like, "seducing" women in his videos. idk, blech.

Yeah, 'one time' really only grosses me out because:
a) his 'invisible' braces are incredibly, ickily visible
b) he's 'seducing' girls
c) he looks like he's 12 rather than 15
d) he embodies everything that i find so compelling but also so disgusting about teenagers of today.

http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt18y5hOUX1qzftyjo1_400.jpg

how old was britney when her first single came out?

16

he really makes me feel like a paedo

― total eclipse of the shart (J0rdan S.), Thursday, January 7, 2010 3:05 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

For what? He's not remotely in the vicinity of attractive. I mean, he's unsettling in that way you're disturbed when your 14/15 yr old sister gets her first boyfriend or something but...sort of harmless and ignorable until you're confronted with the music head-on.

[broken img killed]

He's like...two parts kicked puppy, one part Disney channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTCm8tdHkfI

i know like whatever fast forward twitter etc but i mean, welcome to the past

"The feeling" is pretty awesome: "Sugar on your lips, it's hard to kill
/Jagged like a pill, so hard to swallow"

Best album he's released to date

low ba

bar, too

i dunno, i think purpose is kinda garbage except for the singles and not even all those
much prefer journals

too many of the good songs (the singles) are shoved toward the front of the album and even that section is poorly sequenced

hm maybe my expectations were unnecessarily high but the only keeper other than what was out before the album is "company" which i wouldn't be surprised to see as a radio single further down the line

the halsey collaboration threatens to be great for ~the length of its first verse but the brightness of the chorus doesn't contrast well

i'm sure the title track will make a touching closer to his live set, hopefully with the voice recording part scraped out lol

Veronica ‏@amorrousbieber
started from the bottom and now we're here @justinbieber #6YearsOfMyWorld

OK, i liked--and still like--"What Do You Mean," but this album is crashing bore.

Every single song on it is in the UK Top 100 :/

i caved in to "sorry", it's the second build-and-release in the chorus that really pushes it over the top

"what do you mean" and "where are u now" still don't do anything for me, "i'll show you" remains repulsive trash

Every single song on it is in the UK Top 100 :/

Which, according to the Radio, means he takes the 'record' off Elvis for the most entries in the singles chart.

read something similar re "reading this it's too late" but doesn't make sense since the tracks are not released as singles, right? stating the obvious but album streams don't = single sales

Yes, but they still put them in the 'singles' chart.

people love records
setting records, that is

read something similar re "reading this it's too late" but doesn't make sense since the tracks are not released as singles, right? stating the obvious but album streams don't = single sales

don't know if this affects it but he also made a video for every song

I did not realize that, maybe it counts anyway! but the drake tape surely didn't...

http://www.gq.com/story/justin-bieber-gq-interview

“I feel like that’s why I have a relationship with Him, because I need it. I suck by myself. Like, when I’m by myself and I feel like I have nothing to lean on? Terrible. Terrible person. If I was doing this on my own, I would constantly be doing things that are, I mean, I still am doing things that are stupid, but… It just gives me some sort of hope and something to grasp onto, and a feeling of security, and a feeling of being wanted, and a feeling of being desired, and I feel like we can only get so much of that from a human.”

The whole interview is a Caity Weaver masterpiece.

it's definitely a good piece conjured out of mostly nothing.

I've never read Caity Weaver before. She's pretty great isn't she?

caity weaver's advice column is the best thing gawker has ever published and i'm still a bit mad that she was so good that it had to end

Oh my goodness, people are really, really upset at Justin Bieber.

Found out today that my dental hygienist's sister taught Justin Bieber's mother. That's, what, about nine-and-a-half degrees of separation?

I used to wait on his uncle a lot at my old record store job. Weird guy.

Everyone's got a Bieber story.

sounds too high

doesn't live up to the stereotype that we're all relatives

i'm sure clemenza is my great great grandfather's uncle's husband's daughter's son

What a sweetly hateful ditty.

lol i love that Ed Sheeran burn. <3

Bieber's worst single for sure.

new song is out there. kinda generic, imo.

"confident" popped up on a rando playlist i was spinning and i had a moment of "oh yeah, this guy is occasionally good"

'journals' is still his best record.

New song feels like a self-parody he would make for SNL

Very wish washy. I’ll skip. Srsly you got that yummy yum? Urgh

utter crap

it's getting spammed premiered hourly on iheartmedia's top 40 stations too. the '''''pop''''' end of the industry really thinks all you need to do to get a hit these days is be white and sing complete nonsense over any old trap beat, huh

the new one with kehlani is way better, fortunately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI_ifdDi1R4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EJ3zbKTWQ8

did anyone listen to the new album?
it's more close to journals, but it's sounding very samey overall.

I had stopped listening to him after “Yummy”, but “Peaches” sounds good at least. he’s bought all the r&b, rap and even afropop (Burna Boy on a so-so track) collabs money can buy, but I’m not sure I’m keen to indulge him and his “MLK Interlude”s.

it’s hard to keep up with the guy (if you would want to). I see that apart from a Deluxe version of the album he has now also dropped a new EP which has him channeling Wizkid of all people on the title track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjMts2i93-0
Justin Bieber ft. BEAM • Freedom

i can't stand "peaches"

i have more patience for Bieber than I probably should but even I think there needs to be legislation against him starting a song "BIG UP TO MY BRUDDA"

i dislike "peaches" also, no idea how it's become his most effortless hit since purpose

well it's easily the best single he's released since purpose... the other singles off this album are just totally dire, yummy was a pretty big hit despite being deathly corny, the quavo one i can barely remember how it goes. "peaches" is an up tempo summer song with a memorable chorus, i'm surprised it took them this long to find a song even this good

"yummy" and the quavo song were from the last album not this one, which kinda underscores how indistinctive his music has been and still is in these past couple years

you said since purpose tho

sorry i misunderstood what you wrote

i don't hate "peaches" but bieber's presence on it is clearly the worst part and while pleasant otherwise it's pretty blandly forgettable

I live about 20 minutes from Stratford. He's home today for some event, so much posting in the Stratford Life Facebook group. St. Marys, where I am, relatively quiet.