Oh boy! What’s it say about the state of music when Justin Bieber is living the most rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle of anyone creating music today?
First he’s egging mansions, then he’s blocking roadways to drag race? Yesterday, he turned himself in to the Toronto police for assaulting a limousine driver, and who comes to his defense but crack-smoking mayor Rob Ford. This dude’s more rock ‘n’ roll than any of the members of Arcade Fire.
Hey, Arcade Fire, where’s your Woodstock ‘99 at? Oh, you guys just wear colorful jackets and weird glasses and play accordians? That’s pretty interesting, I guess.
No, wait. It’s not. You guys think having an odd haircut makes you rock ‘n’ roll.
Man, Bieber is more Fred Durst than Arcade Fire will ever be. Actually, he’s more Fred Durst than Fred Durst because Bieber’s day-to-day is Woodstock ‘99. And isn’t that what we want? Don’t we want our celebrities to live lives that we are too rational to live?
And now we want to deport the guy, just when it’s getting interesting? A petition that supports Justin Bieber’s deportation back to Canada reached 100,000 signatures yesterday, which means that the White House has to respond to it. Likely, the White House will take its time, since this is probably the least important item on their agenda. But can’t we just give Bieber a slap on the back for some interesting antics?
We didn’t threaten to deport Led Zeppelin after the mudshark incident, and that event makes Justin Bieber look like an inoccent, naive child.
I just think we should put this in the perspective of music history. Another example, 26 years ago, Nikki Sixx died of a heroin overdose and then was brought back to life by a group of paramedics/Motley Crue fans. That’s insane.
If we believe our society is rational, than we should look at these antics as an example of how not to lead our lives. But at least we get to see these examples of hedonism, instead of swimming through the unknown by ourselves. We get to laugh at celebrities, so that we don’t become them.
Phil McCausland is an English senior from Carlisle, Pa.
