Monday, April 6, 2015

I want to Belieb

Who should you feel worse for?

So Justin Bieber's roast recently happened.  He's probably a bad person.  He's probably got a few children he doesn't know about out there.  Yes, he abandoned his pet monkey.

And, yes, he likely has good PR guy.

You wouldn't be wrong for disliking him, but here's why I think he's somewhat justified.  Firstly, when you give millions of dollars to a kid, you can't expect him to diversify his portfolio and quietly live his life.  Think about why you're not nutjob, maybe you were taught in middle school that you probably wouldn't rise to greatness. At some point you realized the high chance that you, or anyone you know will be president of the United States.

That reality never came to JB.  His reality was everyone else's wildest dreams.

Now you still might think that this is no excuse.  After all, when you were 18 you never crashed you sports car in Miami.  Yes, tell me more about that sports car you didn't crash.  We're taught be our failures, and that's how we learn.  When someone doesn't have any failures, where do you learn?  JB did not have to do the roast, and he didn't have to turn his brand image around.  He could live off royalties and investments for the rest of his life.

He wants to turn his image around, but then again, maybe he just has a good PR guy.