No different than your average teenager, everything is a joke to teens that's why no one takes them seriously.
I understand all these influential Black artists are defending Justin "due to his age" and his embracing a certain "element" of their musical culture, but his indiscretions are more than one, and appear calculated and knowing. At 15, we all knew it was a derogatory word. What is a Canadian boy even doing relishing in that word like it was earning him cool points? Fucking jerk-off. Someone taught him that. Even a friend around him knew better calling him ignorant on the tape. If he has since sincerely seen the error of his ways, and/or genuinely changed his way of thinking independently as he "matured", then it's a 'positive' in that it's one less person mocking the pain and degradation that word existed/exists to inflict. Hopefully he has the influence to show the generation of 50 million Bieber followers how wrong it is.
Particular taste in any art form is always an interesting subject. Art is subjective. Which is a nice contrast in respect to the sciences. Sciences speak on our level of knowledge, but the arts speak more about us on a personal/human level thus equally important. I guess some of us find it funny that (to a certain extent) we have been relating to someone who listens to Justin bieber. lol I listen to heavy metal, hip hop, reggae, salsa, jazz, r&b, some country and French, my play list is wide open yet closed to Justin beiber. *dead*
The irony, a white kid who gets rich and famous by copying blk music style and propped up by blk producers/directors, was once makig fun of blk ppl pain and suffering, ah... good thing, nothing shocks or amazes me in life. But he was 15 and a teenager, we all know what teenagers are, young dumb and full of cum... so if he has learned since and changed his ways for better and helping the advancement of blk ppl then it is good for him, but if he is still the same way just in closet and hiding it coz he is getting rich by mooching of blk music style/producers etc. then fuck him and let him burn in hell
:smt043:smt043:smt043 Music is one area where my taste isn't too broad. The Beib definitely didn't make the cut lol
Truthfully he didn't get rich and famous copying blk music (despite Usher signing him), that has been pretty recent he's become somewhat more 'soulful'...his style was always more pop/heartthrob. He has defended his Black friends when he was accused of being 'wrongly influenced" by them as the reason he went was from clean image to bad boy. Which is ironic in hindsight because he certainly wasn't under BP influence when he was 15, was he.
