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Sep. 29th, 2010 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sagesariaDay 8: One band or singer whose popularity you will never understand.
Justin. Fucking. Bieber.
Granted, he has an ok voice, though I think it works better in a choir than solo, but the kid can not write music to save his life. I'm sorry, but I can't take a song seriously when the chorus starts "And it's like...". That's not poetic at all, it's stupid. It's all completely generic, and he's admitted to never being in a relationship before so why is he attempting to write love songs?!
My first exposure to him was the music video to One Less Lonely Girl, which got me started on this thought that he doesn't know what love is. If you've never seen the video, and I refuse to link it, basically some girl he sees at the laundromat drops her scarf, and instead of maybe catching up with her or holding onto it until next week, he sets up this whole paper trail for her, starting with "I have your scarf, if you want it back, follow the arrows" and leading her through a flower stand saying "I'll give you flowers" and other shit like "I'll always be there for you" and shit like that, ultimately leading up to a fancy restaurant or something like that. My question? WHAT SANE WOMAN WOULD GO WITH THIS SHIT?!?!?! That was creepy even when AMELIE fucking did it. It's not charming, it's fucking CREEPY. WHAT IS WITH THIS SOCIETY AND PASSING OFF STALKER BEHAVIOR AS CHARMING?!?!?
And yet this kid is a big hit. He's EVERYWHERE. There are CARDBOARD CUTOUTS of him for sale at FYE. CARDBOARD. CUTOUTS. What, are they gonna start selling PLUSHIES like fucking FRED?!? I fail to see why he's so popular. He's not that great a singer, he sucks at writing, he's not that ATTRACTIVE (hell, even when I was a teenager and loved blonds I wouldn't find him that cute). Also is it just me, or are all his songs featuring somebody? It's almost like they're certain nobody would know his name otherwise or something.
If that infamous German incident is any clue either, he's an IDIOT. I was almost willing to give him the benefit of the doubt since the host had an accent, but even when he SAW THE WORD ON THE CARD he had no idea what it was. And he totally failed at playing it off too. He basically just went "Durrrrr idk what that means hurrrr I like basketball 8BBBB" UGH.
And on top of that? He can't act. So WHY was he on fucking CSI?! I happened to be watching it with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
supremeherptile and fell out of my chair when I saw him. And like I said, on top of everything else, now CSI has proven that he can't act. Reading a few lines in a monotone and pouting those big pretty lips =/= acting. All I could think by the end of the episode was "Does this mean they can kill him next week?"
They're just milking him for all he's fucking worth now. 'cause let's be honest here...he's a sixteen-year-old male soprano. Give him a few months and they won't even recognise his voice anymore. And knowing how finicky fanbrats are? He'll lose his career at that point.
And on top of all my hatred for this kid, I have to admit that in a way I feel sorry for him. When I was his age, I was the talk of my high school, since I'd been pretty much the star of their annual talent contest. According to the teachers I was the first person to ever get a standing ovation at Puttin' on the Hits. I got interviewed for the school paper, ffs. I don't regret participating in PoTH every year, hell I wish I could still play that well (I haven't played my guitar regularly since I started college), but because of that fame pretty much everybody wanted me to sing for them. Sometimes interupting what I wanted to talk about, or what I was doing before, to ask me to sing. Not only did this annoy me because I like different music than they did, but because thinking back on it, I feel like they were just treating me like a personal jukebox. Like they were friends with my pipes, not with my personality. But that fame was just with one high school. Li'l Bieber is a well-known celebrity. Who's to say he isn't getting the exact same treatment, possibly worse? And who's to say that sooner or later, he won't get completely sick of it.
And since I refuse to link to one of his songs, I'll instead link to my favorite parody.
Justin. Fucking. Bieber.
Granted, he has an ok voice, though I think it works better in a choir than solo, but the kid can not write music to save his life. I'm sorry, but I can't take a song seriously when the chorus starts "And it's like...". That's not poetic at all, it's stupid. It's all completely generic, and he's admitted to never being in a relationship before so why is he attempting to write love songs?!
My first exposure to him was the music video to One Less Lonely Girl, which got me started on this thought that he doesn't know what love is. If you've never seen the video, and I refuse to link it, basically some girl he sees at the laundromat drops her scarf, and instead of maybe catching up with her or holding onto it until next week, he sets up this whole paper trail for her, starting with "I have your scarf, if you want it back, follow the arrows" and leading her through a flower stand saying "I'll give you flowers" and other shit like "I'll always be there for you" and shit like that, ultimately leading up to a fancy restaurant or something like that. My question? WHAT SANE WOMAN WOULD GO WITH THIS SHIT?!?!?! That was creepy even when AMELIE fucking did it. It's not charming, it's fucking CREEPY. WHAT IS WITH THIS SOCIETY AND PASSING OFF STALKER BEHAVIOR AS CHARMING?!?!?
And yet this kid is a big hit. He's EVERYWHERE. There are CARDBOARD CUTOUTS of him for sale at FYE. CARDBOARD. CUTOUTS. What, are they gonna start selling PLUSHIES like fucking FRED?!? I fail to see why he's so popular. He's not that great a singer, he sucks at writing, he's not that ATTRACTIVE (hell, even when I was a teenager and loved blonds I wouldn't find him that cute). Also is it just me, or are all his songs featuring somebody? It's almost like they're certain nobody would know his name otherwise or something.
If that infamous German incident is any clue either, he's an IDIOT. I was almost willing to give him the benefit of the doubt since the host had an accent, but even when he SAW THE WORD ON THE CARD he had no idea what it was. And he totally failed at playing it off too. He basically just went "Durrrrr idk what that means hurrrr I like basketball 8BBBB" UGH.
And on top of that? He can't act. So WHY was he on fucking CSI?! I happened to be watching it with
supremeherptile and fell out of my chair when I saw him. And like I said, on top of everything else, now CSI has proven that he can't act. Reading a few lines in a monotone and pouting those big pretty lips =/= acting. All I could think by the end of the episode was "Does this mean they can kill him next week?"They're just milking him for all he's fucking worth now. 'cause let's be honest here...he's a sixteen-year-old male soprano. Give him a few months and they won't even recognise his voice anymore. And knowing how finicky fanbrats are? He'll lose his career at that point.
And on top of all my hatred for this kid, I have to admit that in a way I feel sorry for him. When I was his age, I was the talk of my high school, since I'd been pretty much the star of their annual talent contest. According to the teachers I was the first person to ever get a standing ovation at Puttin' on the Hits. I got interviewed for the school paper, ffs. I don't regret participating in PoTH every year, hell I wish I could still play that well (I haven't played my guitar regularly since I started college), but because of that fame pretty much everybody wanted me to sing for them. Sometimes interupting what I wanted to talk about, or what I was doing before, to ask me to sing. Not only did this annoy me because I like different music than they did, but because thinking back on it, I feel like they were just treating me like a personal jukebox. Like they were friends with my pipes, not with my personality. But that fame was just with one high school. Li'l Bieber is a well-known celebrity. Who's to say he isn't getting the exact same treatment, possibly worse? And who's to say that sooner or later, he won't get completely sick of it.
And since I refuse to link to one of his songs, I'll instead link to my favorite parody.
