At just 16, Justin Bieber has a worldwide army of infatuated teenage fans.According to the following article, at age 12 he uploaded some videos on YouTube. One performance of Justin sitting on a couch, strumming his guitar and singing like an angel, was seen by chance by Scooter Braun, then a music marketer and party planner. He thought he had found the next Michael Jackson. He flew to meet him, set up an audition with R&B singer Usher, and the rest is history
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Justin Bieber: YOU goes backstage with pop's latest heart-throb
By LIZ JONES Last updated at 4:06 AM on 26th September 2010 Mail Online:
At just 16, ruling prince of pop Justin Bieber has a worldwide army of infatuated teenage fans. Liz Jones, who still yearns for her own adolescent crush David Cassidy, tries to negotiate her way through ‘Justin’s people’ to reach the man-child behind the madness on his sold-out U.S. tour
It's a strange, otherworldly sound. It threatens to pierce your eardrums. There are no words. The sound doesn’t know what it wants. It isn’t articulate. There is a bassline too: thousands upon thousands of stamping feet, like one big tantrum. When I hear the sound, I’m 11 years old again. When I look around, it’s a sea of pink Lycra, tanned limbs, bare, taut torsos, hair ironed within an inch of its life. But these girls might as well be wearing brown loons and cheesecloth. They might as well have greasy hair and spots, and great big clumpy Freeman Hardy Willis shoes on their feet instead of the inevitable spangled flip-flops. They are in the grip of a mass hysteria, although I don’t think hysteria quite describes what this is. It is pure, unconditional love for a slight boy with slim hips and an asymmetric, feathered haircut.
The object of my affections was David Cassidy. I loved him. Still do, actually. The man-child causing the screams tonight is Justin Bieber. I’m in Orlando, Florida, in the giant Amway Arena at the end of a long, hard day inside the Bieber bubble. Justin is up on stage, wearing all white – white jeans, white denim jacket. David used to wear white, too; it makes them stand out. At one point, Justin gets in a sort of ski lift and zooms above all those freshly shampooed heads, so close we can almost smell him. To me, the dancers seem a bit amateurish; the songs – ‘Baby’, ‘Somebody to Love’ – unexceptional bubblegum fare, but who cares? No one is looking at the dancers, or really listening.
But while David, who was then in his early 20s, oozed sex and had something definitely very dirty about him, Justin Bieber, who was described very accurately by New York magazine as resembling ‘a small woodland creature’, is still only 16. He doesn’t know how to grind his pelvis, although he is reported to have a ‘swagger coach’. Although all the girls seem sophisticated compared to me and my schoolfriends, the fact that they’d rather moon over a poster (every teen magazine in the US has Justin’s face on its cover) than kiss the real thing is heartening. They are more innocent than they look. Maybe teenage girls haven’t changed that much in 40 years, after all.
. . . . . When I finally get to meet Justin upstairs, he is mute. It turns out he has lost his voice due to a virus, although I suspect it might have started to crack because of the advent of puberty. He is small for his age, and cuts a lonely figure. While the TV crew is setting up, he sits at a piano, tinkering.
Justin was brought up by his single teenage mother, Pattie Mallette, in low-income housing in Stratford, Ontario, in Canada. Aged 12, he came second in a local talent contest, and began to upload videos of himself on to YouTube. One performance, of Justin sitting on a couch, strumming his guitar and singing like an angel, was seen by chance by Scooter Braun, then a music marketer and party planner. He thought he had found the next Michael Jackson. He flew to meet him, set up an audition with R&B singer Usher, and Justin was signed. He has gone on to earn almost £100 million. He has sung for President Obama. He has topped the American Billboard charts with his debut album, My World, making him the youngest star to do so since Stevie Wonder in 1963. And this is only the beginning.
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