At the end of his performance on Monday night (Nov. 12) at Brooklyn’s shiny new Barclays Center, Justin Bieber performed “Boyfriend,” then “Baby.”

The one-two punch caused the piercing screams of the teen star’s pint-sized Beliebers to rattle the arena one last time, as Bieber, alongside his happy-go-lucky troupe of back-up dancers, quickly plowed through his two biggest hits before bidding the crowd adieu. “Boyfriend” and “Baby” are not just Bieber’s most recognizable songs but are arguably the two best distillations of his bubblegum charm, with the former offering a decidedly swaggy reflection of Bieber’s newfound adulthood and “Baby” still one of the most lovable compositions Tricky Stewart and The-Dream have ever dreamt up.

The problem, however, is that Bieber had over an hour to fill before unleashing those two songs on his followers, and the dazzling pyrotechnics of the ‘Believe’ tour failed to fully mask the work-in-progress that is the pop star’s catalog. As soon as Bieber flew into the Barclays Center on metallic wings — descending from the rafters like a forgotten Greek god — a parade of dubious set list choices began, with “U Smile” brushed off and “One Time” folded into a medley along with “Eenie Meenie.” Bieber explained early in the show that he would be focusing more on his current oeuvre on the ‘Believe’ tour — an understandable move, but one that prompted long swaths of lesser “Believe” tracks like “Catching Feelings,” “She Don’t Like the Lights” and “Out of Town Girl.” And after whipping out a special (heartbreak-induced?) cover of Justin Timberlake’s “Cry Me a River” two nights earlier in Boston, Bieber’s Brooklyn set felt oddly impersonal, with only a few quick shout-outs to the borough in the opening minutes serving as a nod to the Biebs’ first Barclays visit.

Still, Bieber’s show is aimed at tween girls, and his follow-up to the ‘My World’ tour enthralled the thousands of kids that hung upon Bieber’s every word on Monday night. There was dance-fighting during “Never Say Never,” acoustic strumming during “Fall,” flashing neon lights during “Beauty and a Beat” and abs flashed when Bieber salaciously attached his own flying harness; during all of these moments and more, the onlookers dutifully deflated their lungs. At 18, the Biebs is a veteran of this type of spectacle, and wiped away palpable exhaustion to shimmy during “As Long As You Love Me” and croon to a special fan onstage during “One Less Lonely Girl.” He was the perfect master of ceremonies, confiding in his audience that “All you gotta do is swag, swag, swag,” and later sharing that, whether you want to be a “doctor or a dancer,” you can indeed achieve your dreams.

There will come a day when Bieber dives head-first into adulthood — when he’ll have more curse words incorporated into his set than baby videos, when the leather pants and crotch-grabbing won’t be quite as uncomfortable, and when he’ll have a heavier collection of pop songs to choose from. Until then, the Biebs is in control on this iteration of his arena trek, and inspired squeals in Brooklyn on Monday night that no Nets win could ever produce.

Source: Billboard

Jumping up and down!!

K-Pop legend Psy is working on a new single with American Canadian pop prince Justin Bieber! CAN YOU IMAGINE THE COSTUMES?

The Gangnam Style genius spilled the beans on his super secret Bieber collaboration, telling reporters:

“Yeah, so we have a plan to do something together later but we doesn’t have any details yet. But, sure – we gonna do some work later on.”

LATER ON?? That sucks.

Howeves, there is a chance we’ll get to see The Biebs and Psy get down in an elevator sooner than later. When talking about his upcoming single, Psy told told another source:

“I already have done with the next track already. I cannot tell you about who it’s gonna be with but I’m working with someone else right now and it’s going to be huge.”

Hmmm… who could that be??? HA!

GAWD we hope it’s JB!

With their combined YouTube views, a music video of theirs will doubtlessly make interweb history!

Source: Perez Hilton

Justin Bieber is sitting down with MacLean’s magazine and he makes it very clear he wants to be the new King of Pop.  “I don’t just want to be a teen heartthrob.”

Solidifying his claim to the pop thrown Justin has already borrowed the moves, the glitter gloves and fashioned his own version of Michael’s crotch grab, but can the cute Canadian become a “bad-boy”?

Apparently we’ll only have to wait a couple more months to find out, Scooter Braun, Justin’s manager says that Justin will be releasing some new material in February and it won’t disappoint.  “Think of the wildest thing you can think of and think: more.”

“All our decisions are based on long-term decisions, we use Michael as a template.” Justin tells the mag, “The things he did for his career, a lot of the times it was good, sometimes it was bad, but he was successful from being young to being old.”  Continuing on, Justin spills the motivation behind his music, “That’s what I want to get to. I don’t want to grow up and lose my young fans singing inappropriate music.”

Scooter explains how Justin goes about learning from his pop icon.  “We have this running thing called What Would Michael Do?”  Adding, “It’s not that Justin wants to beMichael Jackson, but his thing is if Michael was the greatest, why not look to him?”

Not surprising, Justin is looking to another pop sensation who wasn’t always a golden boy: Elvis. “I like that Elvis was a good boy but wasn’t a good boy at the same time,” he says. “I’m not picture perfect. I don’t want to be inappropriate. Just not perfect like a Disney kid. Nothing against…”

All this sums up what we’ve seen in the media recently with Justin posting shirtless photos of himself on Instagram, performing amongst a slew of sexy Victoria’s Secret models and sporting new tattoos. Hardly the work of a hardened “bad-boy” but one thing’s for sure the Prince of Pop, is definitely growing up.

Source: ET Canada

There’s something perverse about sending a guy old enough to have seen the Beatles play Maple Leaf Gardens on a mission to interview Justin Bieber. I’ve interviewed my share of music legends—Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Madonna, Bryan Adams, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, k.d. lang, Shania Twain. But for some reason I felt more apprehensive about talking to Bieber.  Not because I was starstruck. Just unqualified. It didn’t matter that I’d spent longer on the road as a professional musician than he has (five years back in the day). This was another world. Even after immersing myself in Bieber’s music and reading anything I could lay my hands on, meeting him was like visiting a luminary from an another planet. Then again, I can’t remember the last time I had an extended conversation with any 18-year-old, never mind a fabulously wealthy, successful pop star prodigy with 30 million Twitter followers and 3 billion YouTube viewers.

Here are some reflections on our interview, with outtakes that didn’t make it into this week’s Maclean’s cover story, which is on newsstands now:

We met in his dressing room backstage at the Verizon Center, an arena in downtown Washington D.C., on the eve of the presidential election,  five hours before he hit the stage. I had half an hour. When you do a celebrity interview, you always look for a spontaneous moment to break the ice, or generate some narrative. When I spotted the ping-pong table, I mentioned I used to be pretty good. Jumping at a chance to play, he handed me a paddle. It was one of those really heavy foam jobs. For the life of me, I couldn’t get the ball to stay on the table. He gamely tried to feed me lobs, and conceded that you could tell I once knew how to play. “This isn’t working,” I said, as I threw in the towel, worried I’d frittered away my precious time slot before we got a rally going.

As he took a seat on a couch, and I flicked on the recorder, Bieber came across as a polite, sweetly sincere Canadian. He spoke of his music and ambitions with a cautious candour, not unlike a media-groomed athlete. I asked how a typical day on tour unfolded: “I wake up around 12 or 1,” he said, “then spend the morning either working out or just resting, and have a meet and greet at 4:30, then go onstage at roughly 8:30, and that’s every day for the rest of the time I’m on tour. I just love performing each night, getting better and doing different things.”

Bieber talked a lot about the importance of hard work and professional guidance: “You gotta know how to keep your mind right and that’s by keeping the right people around you and being reminded of what’s important, and never losing sight of the passion and drive behind why you do what you do,” he told me. “Whenever I don’t want to do things and I’m frustrated, I just remember this is what I chose because I love what I do. Whether it’s a long eight-hour photo shoot that I don’t want to do – what do I need to do a photo shoot for?— I want my mind set to push through it and get it done and be the best. Kobe Bryant shows up three hours before everyone else and does his own practice before everyone else, then stays later and does a practice after everyone else leaves. That’s the type of mind set that I want.”

Not just a musician, Bieber commands a massive business empire. But he lets others take care of the details. “Everything is done for me, because I’m not interested in doing it,” he told me. “But everything comes from my brain and what I want. If they come to me with a fragrance I don’t like, I’m not going to say ‘Put it out there.’ All the business decisions, all the different apps that I invest in, I make sure that I like them. That’s a good model: don’t do it if you don’t like it.”

Although the publicist had ordered me not to ask about his girlfriend, I was curious about how being a sex symbol adored by thousands of screaming girls every night jibed with his Christian faith. His mother says she has abstained from sex ever since she split from Justin’s father when he was 10 months old— she hasn’t remarried and believes premarital sex is immoral.

“What are your views these days on premarital sex?” I asked Bieber.

“That’s a question you shouldn’t be asking,” he replied, without hestitation, a glint of steel cutting through the puppy-dog gaze.

My immediate reaction was to apologize.  I thought, OMG, I’ve just violated the privacy of a teenager, as if I asked him to state his sexual preferences.

“No hard feelings,” he said.

Only later did I realize: Wait a minute, I didn’t ask if he was having pre-marital sex, with Selena Gomez or anyone else. I just asked his views on the matter. Bieber is in the “Let me be your boyfriend” business, and flirting with thousands of girls every night. So the question is not exactly off-topic. But there’s something intimidating about talking to someone that young who is endowed with so much power and confidence. In  horror movies there’s nothing scarier than a child with supernatural powers. Not that Justin is a child. Sorry, I keep forgetting he’s 18 now.

I did, however, get him to discuss singing about love and heartbreak with a maturity beyond his years.

“I’m young,” he said, but “I know what love is, I know what heartbreak is to an extent. I haven’t really talked a lot about heartbreak, because I haven’t had a lot of it. So I haven’t written a lot about heartbreak and you don’t hear that in my music yet, I mean, I don’t know. But my music is going to mature as I mature. And that’s it.”

Source: Macleans