I Realized That I Don't Hate Justin Bieber

[Heartcafe]

For a long time I have known Justin Bieber as the death of all good music and I've hated him for it. From his cheesy music to his unholy love of purple to the fact that he got a movie made about him when he is still 16. I never really understood my friends (I'm a teenager stuck in this craze between twihards and Belibers -_-) fascination with him. To me, he seemed like just an average guy with nothing special about him and I always thought that was it. I thought he didn't deserve all that attention because he was an ordinary guy that (to me) didn't do much to deserve that fame. Then I saw this on my Tumblr Dashboard:

And then it hit me. I don't hate Bieber. I just hated his fans.
This post made me angry because it assumes that I am jealous of him. (But I do disagree with calling him gay. I think gay as a term shouldn't be used in context to insult.) And I know for a fact that I'm not jealous of him and neither are most people who dislike Bieber.

The funny thing is that I can replace the celebrity names here with any other celebrity and it would still fit the context. I can do it right now. (click the spoiler because I don't want this to be a crazy wall of text.)

Spoiler

people who call orlando bloom gay piss me off. are you dating one of the hottest girls ever? do you hang out with (Making things up on the spot here) anglina jolie or megan fox? are you friends with johnny depp, or leonardo di caprio. do you have millions and million of girls everywhere wanting to get naked in front of you. no, you're sitting at home reading this status with your hand on your dick.

What are Rihanna and Chris Brown to me? Sure, they are celebrities, but they are also people who happen to be more successful. But does that make them any better then my best friends? No.
Why would I want millions and millions of pre-pubescent girls (or boys in my case since I'm a girl) and sad soccer moms wanting to sleep with me? (Well, ok. the poster might have a point there, but seriously, who would want to sleep with a creepy fan who has posters of you in their bedroom? They are the gateway partner to stalker ex-girlfriends.)
"No, you're sitting at home reading this status with your hand on your dick." Well, you're sitting at home writing this status. I don't see you doing any better.

Now, I've listen to his music and I don't like it, but I don't hate it either. I mean, I don't like country music but I don't hate the singers for it. Someone in the world likes it and that's fine with me.

I don't know if it's just me. But I realized that I don't care about celebrities or their lives. To me, they are just regular people who just happen to appear in the media. Justin Bieber would just be a regular kid who sings if it wasn't for the fans that he has and it's those people who are the ones who irk me. They get angry if Bieber dates a girl, they get angry if his music is criticized, they get angry at every provocation.

The same thing goes to the Twihards. Twilight would just be another book on the shelf if it wasn't for that small part of crazy fanbase that idolizes it. (And trust me, Twilight is better book then 99% of other Harlequin and trashy romance novels out there simply because there is a plot. No matter how bad it is.)

Wow. That's a large wall of text Hope it doesn't scare you guys off. Thoughts?

 

[ultrachicken]

You know what I find stupid? The fact that Justin Bieber has collected so much hate solely for making bad music. That is an indication of a shallow personality.

 

[hotsauceman]

I dont hate bieber. I hate what he represents as a whole of the music industry. His songs are SO generic and he isnt marketed as music but as a person. What i hate is seeing people who deserve the spotlight getting it taken away from them because they are not marketable.

 

[Laser Priest]

I have no reason to hate Bieber. He doesn't seem like a terrible person, he just makes terrible music, which I can ignore.

I disagree with his fans, and I feel more hate towards all of the people who treat him as sub-human.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I dont hate bieber. I hate what he represents as a whole of the music industry. His songs are SO generic and he isnt marketed as music but as a person. What i hate is seeing people who deserve the spotlight getting it taken away from them because they are not marketable.

I kinda hope this is the main reason for the hate, I'm in this camp too, I've got nothing personal against Bieber, he's a kid with a reasonable voice and good looks who got lucky getting picked, while he's not awful, there's a good thousand kids out there who could do the same job.

It's like X Factor, Pop Idol, or any of the singing TV contests, really once you're down to the final few dozen, any one of them could be remodelled, restyled, and then trained, autotuned and edited to sound good.

In the end, it all comes down to marketing.

So yeah, don't hate Bieber, hell, I'd be polite to the kid if I met him, he's done me no harm personally, I'd happily punch Simon Cowell in the tits if they weren't so well protected by his belt, however.

However, OP, this is the internet, and I'm not sure you're allowed to post common sense, you might break it

(I think the Escapist has a filter that makes it ok )

 

[ReservoirAngel]

I don't hate him either. Mostly cause I find it hard to hate someone who's attractive.

Plus... his music isn't even that bad. Generic, sure. But come on, so is most pop music. People just single Bieber out because he's managed to become a mega-sensation for it, on account of his legions of girls screaming because of the aforementioned "he's fucking attractive" thing.

I don't even hate Bieber's fans. Not really. I disagree with them, but I don't hate them by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[TheIronRuler]

His music is below average, but the ear exploding screams of fans make me vomit.
I don't carea bout him, hate is a srong emotion and demands energy and dedication.
Screw it.

 

[Mr Somewhere]

I honestly do hate his music. But it's not just him, it's everything that pop music stands for these days. Call me a snob, I care not, but the shear level of vacuous nonsense that pop music pumps out these days disgusts me.
It's all so very shallow and effortless, there's no heart, and they all seem like manufactured products (probably are too). It all seems to appeal to the basest of tastes.

 

[LobsterFeng]

And then it hit me. I don't hate Bieber. I just hated his fans.

I hate his fans, I also hate his haters. Wrap your head around that.

 

[MorsePacific]

I paid $13 to see his movie in 3D and it changed my mind about him. Sure, he makes some bad music, but he's really just a kid.

 

[Zac Smith]

I dislike his music, but considering I've never met him personally (and neither have about 99% of people that complain about him) I can't formulate an opinion about what he is like as a person. So no, I don't hate him either, but as I said, just have a drastically different taste in music. If I had even half the success he did in the metal and rock industry, I would be a very, very happy man.

The only thing that I really do hate is the constant bitching between fans and haters. 14 year old girls screaming because they love him, and teenage guys saying they hate him because "hez a FaG lolZ" I just wish people would on the whole keep themselves to themselves and not have to need to argue on the internet over who is right. Agree to Disagree, same goes for; console wars, genre wars, and even the whole My Little Pony thing. Whatever you into good for you, and if you don't like it, deal with it. Both stop antagonizing!

 

[BanthaFodder]

There are people who make shit music that I'm totally fine with.
I don't really care for most country music, but I don't hate the artists for it.
I hate Bieber for his personality.
The fact that he is such an egotistical, insulting, obnoxious, petulant, spoiled, head-so-far-up-his-own-ass-he-can-see-his-breakfast CHILD is what I find insufferable about him.
Take the douchebags on Jersey Shore. yeah, they're douchebags, but the show is atleast ENTERTAINING (like before Wrestling became a huge "you slept with my girl, BAWW" puss-fest), brightly-colored freaks beating the shit out of eachother for no reason.
I don't get why people obsess over Justin Bieber when he is clearly one of the BIGGEST DOUCHEBAGS ON THE PLANET. little girls under the age of 10 I get, but any older... and it just makes no sense, this kid is Tony Stark if he never made the Iron Man suit and his balls never dropped.
Not to mention how badly he doesn't want people to think he's gay...
Get called a f*g by a TWELVE YEAR OLD?
Start whining on news shows about how hurtful words from a small child can be.
Gay rumors still persist?
"Leak" somenews that you and all of your muscle-bound roadies will sometimes buy a Playboy and look at it TOGETHER.
... no comment.
And now there's "rumors" that he knocked up his girlfriend (isn't she like 12?).
Honestly, I'd feel sorry for someone THIS insecure, if they weren't such a horrible person. Justin Bieber is the steriotypical high school jock, but without the sports, testosterone, and talent.

tl;dr: I really really don't care for Justin Bieber.

 

[Flaming Narwhal]

I never really hated him as a person, and I could never understand people, like my friends, who went out of their way to hate him. Sure, I find his music generic and boring, but giving it more attention by hating it doesn't seem like a constructive way to make him get better. But on the other side of the coin are the super fans, who can't let anything negative be brought to light about him, further stagnating his music.
I like the Beatles, but I can still say that not everything they made was an artistic masterpiece; they had to take time and make some only okay or even shitty songs before they made Let It Be.
Besides, Bieber's what, sixteen? He's a couple months older than me, and I'm going into my sophmore year of high school. In like a couple years when the whole creepiness of having prepubescent girls fawning all over him sets in, he'll probably start making music not aimed at them, and it might not suck.

 

[Mr. Eff_v1legacy]

I don't hate the guy, and I don't understand why people do. I don't like his music, but does that mean I should show hostility towards him?

 

[Kenami]

How Justin Bieber can be relevant to anyone over the age of 17 is a complete and utter shock to me. I have many friends who hate him and I just...don't get it. The only time I ever heard one of his songs was after I told a co-worker I never heard one before, she than proceeded to play about 30 seconds of one of his songs and after that I...never heard another Bieber song. Do I hate him? No, his music is just aimed towards a different kind of music fan and that simply isn't me.