Why Justin Bieber won't last... (speculation)

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Kortney

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chupacabrawolf said:
Anybody remember Aaron Carter? He was exactly like Justin Bieber; A Pop singing, teenage male with tons of screaming fangirls. I have not heard anything about him for along awhile.
I just looked it up and his last alblum came out in 2002.
I feel this is exactly what will happen to Justin Bieber, he will just fade into obscurity.
Not that I'm a fan of Bieber at all, but Aaron Carter was no where near as popular as Bieber is. Not even close .

I think Bieber will last a long time actually.
 

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unless he gets his shit together (like MJ which he cant) he will simply be forgotton (like 99.99% of the 90,s boy bands)
 

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chupacabrawolf said:
Anybody remember Aaron Carter? He was exactly like Justin Bieber; A Pop singing, teenage male with tons of screaming fangirls. I have not heard anything about him for along awhile.
I just looked it up and his last alblum came out in 2002.
I feel this is exactly what will happen to Justin Bieber, he will just fade into obscurity.
Ah yes Aaron Carter, brother of Nick Carter from the Backstreet boys if I remember correctly. I remember him being pretty big kind of like Mr. Bieber. Hopefully you're right about this one, because I am sick to death about hearing about this twat. At least Aaron Carter went through puberty and actually looked and sounded like a guy, girly boys like Bieber seems to be what every girl wants now.
 

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A few days ago I went into a 99p electronics shop at the back was a load of "give a best price" albums and every single one was a terrible pop sensation such NSYNC, blue and the sugerbabes. The Jonas brothers will head that way and so will most over popular musicians mainly because their careers aren't built to last

Pop music depends massively on looks, when was the last time you saw a fat or middle aged person become a pop star? They don't because they aren't going to be that good of dancers and they aren't particularly good looking so they aren't popular. Along with that and the fact that the general public will latch onto something, listen to it for a few weeks and then completely forget about it. Look at the Jonas brothers, they were massive and now justin bieber or whatever crap the general public listen has taken the stand. However the same will go to him and all pop stars but it's what the want, a lot of money in a short amount of time and not many people to remember them.

At that is why I do not listen to anything on the radio or listen to anything in the charts, you must be incredibly shallow to enjoy the whole culture of it.
 

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I remember when N'Sync and Backstreet Boys were the shit, and I was in Junior High (I think , or close to.o_o). I didn't like EITHER one of them. I had pretended to like them at first, because I was already weird enough. I thought I'd get a few brownie points by making a decision between two bowls of turds. I picked N'Sync. To show everyone how much I liked them, I bought a calendar....and I didn't even hang it up. lol

Truth is, all 'pop sensations' eventually fade. Justin was really young when he started so he has SOME years to go, I think, before the flame for him is turned down. I think he'll always be around, since most of them are still recording ; but it wont be as obvious. He wont always be on the front page. His name will appear somewhere and people will go, "Heh, look at that, he's still at it." I love hearing, "I thought (s)he/they was/were dead!" That'll always be my favorite line when people find out that old pop sensations are still out there trying to do their thing.
 

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Another reason Beaver won't last long? Is probably the fact that if you look up his song "Baby" on youtube it has far more thumbs DOWN than up. Someone as crazy skilled as MJ wouldn't have had a problem like that (Speculatively) had the internet been around then.
Actually, that raises a whole new question: How would famous musicians of the past have faired with the internets? I'm not talking piracy I'm talking the whole level of exposure. Such as if everyone had heard his very first songs over and goddamn over?
 

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TrevorGruen said:
his voice will change into something that i predict will sound like Alvin and the chipmunks on ridlin.
If you slow down Alvin and the Chipmunks they sound like three bored guys singing for a paycheck, and Dave sounds like a demon from the bowels of Hell.

For extra fun, go find that one movie (not the live action one, the older 2D animated one. I think there's a scene where the Chipmunks get sacrificed to a volcano in it) with the Chipettes in it. If you slow down the Chipettes, they're all the same woman, playing all three parts.
 

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He certainly won't last for long; when the puppeteers decide that the show needs to end they toss away the puppet.
Rayne870 said:
If he hires a decent song writer he could actually last.
He could last with us but not in the music industry.
 

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Nouw said:
He certainly won't last for long; when the puppeteers decide that the show needs to end they toss away the puppet.
Rayne870 said:
If he hires a decent song writer he could actually last.
He could last with us but not in the music industry.
I vote we just seal him in Tupperware see how long he lasts then.
 
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I don't like getting my ears raped by him. when he fades away and dies by chocking on his own vomit after a coke overdose, Rebecca black will come finish the job with her auto tuned ear raping bullshit. I hope sabaton and two steps from he'll will release a new album
 

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Once he turns 18, Disney will kick him to the curb in favour of some other young teen wannabe-idol. As long as he keeps auto-tuning his "work", his voice will never change.
 

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He's doesn't leave an everlasting impression on the world like Queen, The Beatles, or Elton John...so history will pretty much swallow him up like the rest of his ilk.
 

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He has the potiential to but I doubt it will happen. His label is just gonna suck as much money out of him as they possibly can and then dump him when he's not popular anymore. It'll be up to him where he wants to go from there but he'll propbably end up in a maccas job or he'll turn into the next Lindsey Lohan or something.
 

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TrevorGruen said:
Ok, first off, i know that there is plenty of hate for Justin Bieber going around, but im not doing this because i hate him. I dont. I dont like his music but i dont dislike the person. With that out of the way, why does everyone (well all the people who like him anyway) think he will last? The Jonas brothers were popular as all hell, but when was the last time you heard anything about them? Hell every big star with teens (especially teen girls) seems to be popular as hell, but then dissapear without a trace not long after their popularity. Remember anything about Nsync aside from their name and maybe a single hit song?

Anyway, the way i figure its just a matter of a year (generously) until you stop hearing about him all together, but i think its funny how so many people think hes here to stay. Then again i think i may have answered my own question somewhere in there... Anyway, please feel free to post your own speculations. Good speculating Escapists!
Two words: Michael Jackson.

When he first appeared in the 60s everyone basically said the same things about him that they're saying about Justin now. That's not to say Justin will have that much longevity but if he makes the right career decisions there's no reason why it theoretically couldn't happen. And they're both more or less equally talented (fact).
 

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lwm3398 said:
I have some speculations of my own.

The Beatles. They started out as "pop trash" too, right? I've only figured this out recently, mostly because I never like their earlier music when I listen to it. It's what they were. "Guitar bands are on their way out." So, they spend a few years like that, and get to unimaginable levels of pop stardom. Girls screamed over them like they scream over, hey, Justin Bieber. Then what happened? They started to make ART. Not POP.

Although, I will say the current batch of tweens has musical ADD, unable to concentrate on one band for more than eight seconds.

But, let's say they like Bieber enough to support him until even he starts to get bored of auto-tune. What then? If he does have any talent, he'll find a new label, new songwriter (Because we all know he sucks at it), new producer, and a new image. Maybe go on a soul-search in Nepal, I don't know. And then he comes back- BAM!

ART. Not POP. Hey, it happens with all sorts of classic rock bands. You just don't see all the criticism of their pop-ier songs, or at least, not the bad criticism. Criticism as bad as what we give to Bieber.

If that type of thing happens with any artist, my money's more on Lady Gaga. She actually had a little bit of singing talent in the first place. Maybe if she can revert herself back to piano-playing local-American Idol-auditioning former persona than she can start making some actual good music.
Some big differences, though. The Beatles wrote their own music, and the absence of self-songwriting (writing your own godawful lyrics on a couple of tracks doesn't count) is enough by itself to prevent the current teen idols from being taken seriously. Rock was much younger in the Beatles days as well, and the 'rock and roll can change the world' idea hadn't even really taken off yet, let along grown old and died. Thirdly - and VERY importantly - the British pop market always been a very very different beast to American pop. British pop has included numerous bands than in the American market would be classified as indie or alternative: Blur, The Cure (who invented the term Britpop), The Church, Queen, Oasis, Pulp amongst many others. The Beatles are squarely a part of that pop tradition - where pop music means songs that are short and catchy, but are also self-written and creative. Pop, in the British market, differentiates it from from the long guitar-solo-heavy music of bands in the Led Zepellin/Rolling Stones tradition. The Brits have their teen idols as well, but they don't own the pop market in the way that the US teen idols do. Part of that is that pop just has bad connotations in the US, causing talented artists who write their own work to avoid the genre/title, instead calling themselves 'indie'.

But don't confuse the pop tradition of the Beatles/Cure/Smiths/Blur/Oasis/Pulp with the pop tradition of New Kids on the Block/Boyzone/Boys2Men/Sclub7/Britney Spears/Agueillera/Beiber tradition and assume that they're part of the same genre. Same word, both talking about short songs of 3-4 minutes with emphasised choruses, but very very different musical traditions.
 

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TheYellowCellPhone said:
It always happens with these pop sensations. They get huge popularity, tons of money, lots of songs, then after some time they're gone, only to be heard of years later when they died of snorting of coke off of a car engine or something.

It's happened with many people, lots of which are one-hit wonders, namely bands.
Quoted for truth. Such is the nature of the music industry.

And holy crappin christ! You changed your avatar! What's the new one say?