After working on Justin Bieber's first world tour in 2010, my opinion of him (not very high to begin with) dropped even further.
First there was the set. A monstrous collection of crap, and over 20 trucks. That usually indicates a talent issue. More trucks = less talent. Three stories tall.. and utterly bland. Second of all was the video wall; huge, and so lo-rez as to be nearly CGA. Wow. They paid for this? Next was the instruction to security; no signs allowed. Every fan was made to leave their signs on the floor outside or in the garbage, and some of these girls had put a lot off effort into them. Fourth, he was about 40 minutes late getting on stage; and he is so pompous, there is an hour/minute/second countdown displaying to the audience as to when he will actually start. Way to treat the fans, little boy. Finally was his conduct backstage after the show. At 16 years of age, Justin can't walk the 60 feet from backstage to his dressing room; he has an electric cart brought over. He sees all of us waiting for him to go away, and mistakes it for adulation; he stands up in the back of the cart and starts "throwing down gang sign". Ooooh. How street. Pffft. The only "street" for Justin is that he should still be holding his mom's hand when he crosses. The best part of this was that two of his male dancers (who did lots more work, but had to walk..) saw this, looked at each other and snorted back laughter, then shook their heads. Thye saw me laughing and shrugged as if to say "Watchu gonna do?? Boyz lame..."
Having him back just made it clear that he is a punk who will flame out faster than Brandy, and probably bigger than Brit or Lins or.... His stage is a large three story... and just as bland. He also has the same giant countdown displaying, which told he audience he was almost an hour late starting. Why? Some VIP's in the green room. Far more important than the paying fans (who recognized and shrieked when the came out into the house. No idea who they were. Other music punks, I guess. There are a pair of 15 foot wings he wears for his entrance that cost $150,000.00 to make. They don't move, or light up, or do anything but stick out. He rides in wearing them, flown on a half-million dollar "carousel" that takes 40 seconds to carry him from upper backstage to down stage center.... and then they go backstage and are dismantled and put back in a truck. The only interesting part of that bit is that he looks terrified while riding them in.. .and I've seen riskier stuff done by Cher, and Gaga, and even Bette Midler. He can't even unstrap himself; two (male...hmmmm....) dancers kneel in from of him and unstrap him.
Then the performance begins.. and he is as bland as his set. Towards the end he has his shirt off (spoon chested!) and is letting his black vinyl pant slide off his butt. So Justin, you know what that signifies, right? The final punkness is confirmed not just by his conduct at home, and the stupid car mods (like chroming one of them) and racing about... he has a pair of Segways. He uses them to go around back stage, while again the sweating hard working and professional dancers.. walk. Keep going Bieber; the sooner you wreck your career the better.
