(Ed. note: Before anyone accuses me of Bieber Fever, I'm not a fan. I can name two songs the kid's done, and those are the two that they covered on "Glee". In fact, before that episode, I thought his song about "I just need somebody to love" was sung by a 20-something black woman.)
So, apparently everyone in America who isn't a tween girl is mad at Justin Bieber right now. (At least it seems that way if you do a Google news search for "Justin Bieber Rolling Stone interview". Over
500 results for that phrase alone.)
For those over the age of 30, let me enlighten you to what all the fuss is about. Justin Bieber is an adorably little squeaky-clean teenage boy who looks and sings like a tween girl. Tween girls, being largely narcissists, go completely nuts for this. He got discovered when he became a YouTube sensation after broadcasting videos of himself singing. (He YouTubed himself singing pop songs. Again, the tween girl comparisons just don't stop.) He became Usher's protegee and skyrocketed to fame.
Part of his appeal comes from the fact that he mostly appears to have remained a pretty sweet kid, and wasn't the result of crazy stage parents selling him to Disney at a young age, but is rather just a little Canadian boy he wanted to be a singer so bad, he self-promoted and made it happen. (Yes, he's Canadian. This fact will be relevant later.)
Now, presumably because his publicist is a moron, he was interviewed for his cover issue of
Rolling Stone, without a pre-agreed-upon set of questions. (Something that is very common when interviewing younger celebrities, or those with diminished mental capacity, like Britney Spears.)
Rolling Stone, being pot-stirring sadists, decided to launch a pop quiz on hot-button
American political issues on the 16-year-old
Canadian singer.
The results were, quite predictably, disastrous.
