An interesting take on the concert movie genre, leaning more towards a documentary style. It’s heart warming and full of fluff but it also shows that the Biebs is more than just a teenage icon, he’s extremely talented. I took two Bieber haters with me to watch the movie and although they weren’t exactly singing his praises, they admitted that the kid had talent. The movie does feel like a opportunistic grab at making some easy money off a die hard fan base, but it gives the fans what they want and how often do movies achieve that?
Before anybody gets smart, I’m referring to the ever popular social networking website Twitter, a place where a giant popularity contest is underway for the most followers.
Here are 10 reasons people aren’t following you on Twitter, or the ten reasons I unfollow people on twitter.
1. You are constantly tweeting about the mundane including the weather, your hatred of life, or that you spilt coffee on yourself.
2. You RT every idiotic person you follow, adding in a LOL or, even worse, LMFAO.
3. You can’t spell or create grammatically correct sentences.
4. You tweet in relays of 20, filling up your follower’s timeline with garbage.
5. You never tweet at all.
6. You consistently tweet every famous person you follow, filling up everybody else’s entire twitter stream.
Beliebers are addicted to doing this, with tweets like, “@JustinBieber OMB, you’re sooooo hot. Can I be your One Less Lonely Girl?” I’ll be the first to admit Justin Bieber is a catch, that’s why most of us guys are ridiculously jealous of him. If Justin Bieber is the only reason you’re on Twitter, that’s fine, but don’t expect non Bieber fanatics to follow you.
7. You ignore followers who send you @replies.
I understand that many @replies don’t need to be answered or the person is saying something not worth answering, but if people are making decent comments or asking good questions REPLY! This doesn’t mean you should have a ten page long conversation, but at least one reply every now and again to show you care would be nice. If you only have 100 followers, don’t act like you don’t see the one lonely @reply. When you have five million, we’ll talk again.
8. You write an essay over fifteen tweets.
That’s the beauty of twitter. It’s short and to the point. If you want to write something that won’t fit in a 140 character tweet get a blog and tweet a link to your ramblings.
9. You consistently ask what a trending topic means.
There are entire websites dedicated to giving you the answer to this. Even better is browsing through the public tweets and working it out for yourself.
10. You’re so desperate for more followers you read this list.
Stop trying to get followers. If you’re good they’ll come. At least, that’s what people keep telling me. My tweets are life changing and I have less followers than most of the girls tweeting about their teachers wonky eye.
Justin Bieber has landed in South Africa just a short while ago. A resident Belieber was on the scene to snap this photograph of him exiting from a separate door to everybody else. Justin and his manager Scooter are currently on vacation before his next concert in Hawaii. All credit goes to Chani Yachad for spotting him. Welcome to South Africa. Let’s hope he loves it so much he comes back on tour.
Update 1: The picture may be blurry but we have confirmation from the people that were there that it’s definitely him. (Justin is the one in the Beanie.)
The Bieber magic continues to spread across all entertainment mediums leaving no stone unturned. Recently, Justin announced a biography chronicling his journey to fame and life on the road to date. It promises information about his love life and many exclusive new pictures of the Teen sensation. Below is a first look at the books cover.
Justin Bieber is a Canadian born singer who started out on YouTube. After posting cover versions of songs by artists such as Usher, Stevie Wonder, Ne-Yo, Justin Timberlake and Michael Jackson, Justin soon began getting recognition not only from Managers and Labels but from artists themselves. After posting his rendition of Chris Brown’s “With You”, Brown personally called Bieber and congratulated him on his YouTube recognition
Justin’s record, ‘MyWorld,’ is set to release in America on November 17, 2009.
An old soul is the last thing you would expect to find inside Justin Bieber. But all it takes is one listen to the 15 year-old soul-singing phenomenon to realize that he is light years ahead of his manufactured pop peers.
After posting dozens of homemade videos on YouTube in 2007, where the multi-talented Bieber put his impeccable spin on songs from artists like Usher, Ne-Yo and Stevie Wonder, Justin racked up over 10,000,000 views purely from word of mouth.
“I started singing about three years ago,” says the Canadian native who grew up an only child in Stratford, Ontario. “I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn’t taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.”
In an effort to share his victory with his loved ones, Justin began posting his performance footage online. “I put my singing videos from the competition on YouTube so that my friends and family could watch them,” he says. “But it turned out that other people liked them and they started subscribing to them. That’s how my manager found me. He saw me on YouTube and contacted my family and now I’m signed!”
Seven months after Justin started posting his videos online, former So So Def marketing executive Scooter Braun flew the then 13-year old singer to Atlanta, GA to meet with his elite colleagues. As if Justin’s natural singing talent wasn’t enough to impress Scooter’s inner circle, Braun knew Bieber was also a self-taught musician who plays the drums, guitar, piano and trumpet.
“Right when we flew into Atlanta, Scooter drove us to the studio and Usher was there in the parking lot,” remembers Bieber. “That was my first time ever being out of Canada so I went up to him and was like, ‘Hey Usher, I love your songs, do you want me to sing you one?’ He was like, ‘No little buddy, just come inside, it’s cold out.’”
All it took was a short time online for Usher to realize he was in the company of a future superstar. “A week later Usher flew me back to Atlanta,” says Bieber. “I sang for him and his people and he really wanted to sign me then and there but I still had a meeting with Justin Timberlake who also wanted to sign me. It turned out Usher’s deal was way better. He had L.A. Reid backing him up and Scooter had a lot of really good connections in Atlanta. I always tease Usher now and remind him he how he blew me off the first time we met.”
In October of 2008, Justin Bieber officially signed to Island Records. His debut album, My World is an intimate look into the mind of a budding young renaissance man. With production from star hit men like The Dream and Tricky Stewart who produced “Umbrella” for Rihanna and Beyonce’s latest smash, “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It),” Justin has everything he needs to achieve pop supremacy.
Watch Justin’s video, “One Less Lonely Girl,” below and see why I think this guy is going to be HUGE. You can follow him, here, on twitter.
His first single, “One Time” produced by Tricky, is about one of Justin’s favorite topics, puppy love. Usher joins Justin on “First Dance” where the two share verses on a song that Bieber describes as, “A slow groovy song that people can dance to.” On the Midi-Mafia produced “Down to Earth” Justin digs deep to talk about growing up. “Bigger” finds the teenaged singer maturing at a steady rate, while motivating his listeners to strive for their goals.
“I’m looking forward to influencing others in a positive way,” says Justin. “My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it. I grew up below the poverty line; I didn’t have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college and just become a better person.”
A virtually untapped well of natural artistic talent, Justin Bieber is primed to be a solid force in music for many years to come. “I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it’s not corny,” he says. “I think I can grow as an artist and my fans will grow with me.” And just think, he’s just getting started.
Credit:
Justin Bieber is a Canadian born singer who started out on YouTube. After posting cover versions of songs by artists such as Usher, Stevie Wonder, Ne-Yo, Justin Timberlake and Michael Jackson, Justin soon began getting recognition not only from Managers and Labels but from artists themselves. After posting his rendition of Chris Brown’s “With You”, Brown personally called Bieber and congratulated him on his YouTube recognition
After posting dozens of homemade videos on YouTube in 2007, where the multi-talented Bieber put his impeccable spin on songs from artists like Usher, Ne-Yo and Stevie Wonder, Justin racked up over 10,000,000 views purely from word of mouth.
