Justin Bieber: The One Man Beatlemania
His girlfriend lives with death threats, his cars are attacked by fan, he can't walk down the street, he can't hang out with his friends, he can't hang without bodyguards.the world hasn't seen anything like this since Beatlemania and,, as Annie Karni and Dana Schuster noted in Sunday's New York Post, there were four Beatles, only one Justin.
So what gives?
Justin is a good looking kid, no doubt, like the sort of bloke priests are lining up to help in Catholic school. And, like McCartney before him, he is not particulalrly threatening: somewhat harmless, right? So why are teenage (and young, and older) girls trying to tear him to pieces.And why are women hitting him with a paternity suit even when it means they might be responsible for statutory rape.
The first time I wrote about JB, two years ago, it was about a riot at an Upstate Mall and it has only gone worse since then. For his everytime effort to toughen up his public with talk of "swag" and friendship with hip hop teens like Sean Kingston. In his Rolling Stone profile he seemed like a somewhat normal teen in an increeasingly bizarre situation, as, in his manager Scooter Braun's tasteless words "balls drop".
There is that, there is the being raised in poverty as well, but against that rags to riches story are millions of screaming women. It is dangerous out there, he is a prisoner of his scucess and it has been going on for years. He seems to be unstoppable (though it would be intetesing to see how his Christmas album performs) and he seems to be in jail for the next couple of years and, once he is released, it means his career is on the down side.
