Justin Bieber

    Although Justin Bieber has become an incredibly easy target for people who prefer music that is deeper than a slowly evaporating tiny puddle or more complex than just noise underneath a pointlessly autotuned tosser designed to make you gyrate your hips, I feel alot of the scrutiny/immense hatred this boy and his music has come under is well and truly justified. However, due to the huge popularity and unpopularity this "child star" has been buffetted with I felt I would try and take an unbiased look at him and his "music". I will point out now though that all of the information I will be using as evidence for my opinions has come from the internet so if some of what I say is untrue then I can only hold Wikipedia and Google responsible.
    Due to Justin Bieber's immense fame at the youthful age of 16 I assumed, wrongly it would seem, that there may actually be an edge of tragedy to the story of his rise to fame in that it was most likely a bit of a Britney affair. What I mean by that is I assumed perhaps his mother or some form of parental figure in his life had pushed and forced him onto stage and into singing as to make some form of fame for themselves. This however seems to be incorrect and actually Bieber kept his desire to sing majoritively hidden from the adults in his life. This in and of itself to me makes me hate just that little bit less to know he hasn't been scrabbling round in the metaphorical dirt of life for that shiny gold coin of fame. He also in his early years learnt how to play the piano, drums, guitar and trumpet, all of which self taught mind you. Now I think we all know that Bieber's choice of music means we'll never really get to hear his ability on any of these instruments but I think we must also accept that even though this talent is wasted on such a useless "musician" who has decided to only appeal to the "tween" market, it is impressive that he had the effort to teach himself atleast an ability, however large that ability may be, in all of these instruments. The subject of "tweens" however is what moves us on this post.
    When somebody makes music and styles their entire image to grab the attention of the naive goldmine that is adolescent females, you should expect the cynical/common sense reaction towards your music and image from people who they themselves aren't adolescent females. The cutesy, boyish, fresh faced freak that Justin Bieber has decided to become shows us all that in reality, getting fame in the music world obviously isn't about making impressive or artistic music at all. You can sell anything to the majority of adolescent females aslong as it looks nice. Fact. Our entire world is populated by people that sadly most of the time base their opinions on what they can see whether it be a person or the way that person acts. When a young girl sees Justin Bieber's little face all young and stereotypically attractive, they will instantly flock to him as if he was the light at the end of a foggy tunnel, a tunnel filled with lights that were crafted by people over a large amount of time, who took into consideration their light crafting influences and the importance of the creative process when making a light. A little subtle metaphor for you there.
    Now taking myself out of my unbiased persona I can honestly say that Bieber's rise to fame is altogether sickening. The fact that he never really strived for the fame and it was just plopped into his lap when a record label realised they could make money out of him is just so vile and makes you feel as if we will forever repeat the same wheel of pain that is modern popular music until the day you die, slowly closing your eyes to the music of your favourite band who were fantastic but never really "made it" because they didn't appeal to enough people for anyone to pick them up. I think though if we all look at our hatred for Justin Bieber, in reality he is nothing more than a mild annoyance. He spouts silly tripe and says cringeworthy things but give it five years and the liklihood is we'll have rid of him. What really angers us is the fact that we will never rid of the formulaic way in which major labels pick bands and solo artists based if not solely, mainly on their money making ability rather than their artistic talent to create music. Music is a universal art that I now with all my rage believe that we humans don't deserve. We bash it and bruise it until it fits a format that we ourselves think it should fit rather than ever just trying to create music for arts sake or even for the sake of ourselves. We shouldn't be angry at Justin Bieber, we should pity him, as he is just yet another husk that will later be thrown away a bunch of suits when they realise he isn't bringing in enough money for them, left to slowly dwindle away the rest of his years alive debasing himself just to get a tiny taste of the fame he used to have.