Justin Beiber - Page 2

On February 09 2014 04:49 vOdToasT wrote:


His music sucks, yet he is popular. Therefor, he is a reminder to us that the rest of humanity has depressingly shit taste, not to mention that he wouldn't be popular if little girls didn't find him physically attractive, which again, reminds us that the rest of humanity values looks more than music. He is a symbol of many things that are wrong with humanity, and what our societies reward.
He's also a "christian" moron with stupid values, and a terrible neighbour (asshole).

On February 09 2014 07:16 docvoc wrote:
The hate is excessive, but the kid does stupid things and is just generally not incredibly smart. The way he got famous was brilliant, but all manufactured by his mom who seems to be failing at her job as being a mom while being great at reaping the rewards of her son. It's just generally a really bad symbol to have, a family like that, in my opinion. The dude does dumb stuff, but the reason people really dislike him is the fact that his music is the poster-child for general consumption, safe pop music. People can dislike him for his success, or because he's "out there," but what I normally see is people disliking him because all of that is undeserved. The way he got popular was with small girls who latched onto how cute he was, not how good of an artist he was, which, at least for the crowd I'm around, is the most frustrating thing. It's not that the method takes no skill, but that it's so random and ridiculously chance based that he may as well have just drawn lots to see if he'd become popular. That's the view I see a lot in the South.

not to mention that he wouldn't be popular if little girls didn't find him physically attractive, which again, reminds us that the rest of humanity values looks more than music.

On February 09 2014 09:25 Muffloe wrote:
I don't really care so much about all these pop-phenomenons, but it really is different with Bieber. How can someone so completely untalanted get so many fans and so much acclaim? The whole thing is just so fucking unfair. I know REAL musicians, with real understanding of music and instrumental talent, who gets these small no pay-out gigs with like 40 people audiences. Meanwhile this untalented piece of sh*t sell out arenas all over the world. Fuck that

On February 09 2014 10:41 BigFan wrote:

your post is pretty bias tbh. While I don't doubt that these real musicians have talent and understand music well, whatever they are doing to put themselves out there just isn't working for them. Maybe they need to make a change somewhere? I won't act like I know what Bieber did either and I've only ever heard one, at best two of his songs and they seemed ok to me so I can't judge the songs either. However, outright dismissing anything he's done to get to where he is and calling him a piece of shit due to personal bias is unfair on your part as well. My thoughts on this at least.

On February 09 2014 11:17 Muffloe wrote:

Well, I guess it is kinda unfair of me to call out specifically Bieber for this; there are plenty of mainstream artists who can be accused of the same thing. I think that Biebers case might be the most extreme though, and I try to be objective when I say that there aint an ounce of musical talent in that kid. He's at best selling an image made for early teenage girls.

On February 09 2014 11:17 Muffloe wrote:

Well, I guess it is kinda unfair of me to call out specifically Bieber for this; there are plenty of mainstream artists who can be accused of the same thing. I think that Biebers case might be the most extreme though, and I try to be objective when I say that there aint an ounce of musical talent in that kid. He's at best selling an image made for early teenage girls.

On February 09 2014 12:24 radscorpion9 wrote:


It seems like you should be directing your anger at the world for being so superficial though, its not Bieber's fault that so many teenage girls like him . He just does what he does, it might not be fair that so many talented artists are ignored in favour of his music, but its certainly not Bieber's fault that that's the way things are.

I really feel like there's no real reason anyone should hate Bieber before all of his dramatic episodes occurred. But certainly now it just seems like he feels he's too good for society and can skirt all of the laws, I dislike that elitism generally. I don't think its going to have much of an effect on children though, they're smart enough to figure out what reasonable behaviour is from stupid behaviour. They have their parents, friends, and whoever else they have a close relationship with to guide them so I think any influence on Bieber's part is minimal.

On February 09 2014 13:10 Jerubaal wrote:
I was just thinking (always a bad sign)- We want to make sense of everything. We don't want to hear something about something and then not form an opinion about it. Consequently, we often form tentative opinions on some things that we have very little information about. Now think about this in terms of media: We know about the existence of hundreds of people that we might only hear a few snippets about a month. I have to make sense of Emma Watson, Chris Christie, and Kim Jong Il with paltry information. This conditions the unwary into making snap judgments and usually of an extreme binary sort. I like this thing. I don't like this thing.

I don't want to believe that the mode of humanity is what's represented on twitter, but many people use pop culture as an arena where they don't have to be critical and just let out some petty emotion. I suspect that most of the 'hate' is pretty superficial, but twitter, etc. encourages its users to spew literally everything that crosses their mind. There is also a large subset of people who dislike Bieber because they don't want to hear about it 24/7. Of course, if not him, then someone else.