Why Justin Bieber

Those of you reading this who actually know me are probably a bit perplexed by number six on my bucket list: Spend a day with Justin Bieber. Especially so when I tell you it's not to punch him in the face. True, I find his music quite obnoxious, and let's face it, he's really not much better. But really, he's just being a seventeen year old boy.

The Bieb is an interesting character. He's actually incredibly talented. He has a pretty amazing singing voice and can play just about any instrument on which he puts his hands. He's slowly getting better at writing lyrics too, though that is certainly still an area for improvement. It is unfortunate though that he wastes that talent on pseudo-love teenage pop songs. It kind of reminds me of The Beatles. When the Fab Four first started they were playing greasy rock 'n' roll standards at a bar in the red light district of Hamburg (a place to visit for bucket list number fourteen), which you might compare to the Bieb playing covers on stoops and street corners. Once Brian Epstein came along though, The Beatles went through a huge transformation: instead of leather jackets and jeans, they donned suits and ties and tidy bowl cuts. Without Epstein's changes, Beatlemania would have never happened. The same can be said of Scooter Braun and Bieber Fever. Justin Bieber certainly has a much commercialized image and without that his success would be minimal, just like The Beatles. John, Paul, George, and Ringo, though, eventually broke the mold and went back to doing only what they wanted to do. George took the group to India, John played with distortion, and they all got really freakin' high. But they left us with some of their best work after that: Sgt. Peppers, Let It Be, Abbey Road. I could give you the full track listings for those albums, but it would take a good guess to give you even one track of their debut Please Please Me. I have a feeling the same will one day be said of the young Bieber. His obnoxious whiny prepubescent voice in “Baby” will one day be forgotten for whatever interesting musical creation he comes out with next. His music is gradually maturing, just like him, and I for one am anticipating his next album. With songs like “Mistletoe” and the remix of “That Should Be Me” featuring (the horrible country group) Rascal Flatts, Justin is definitely showing potential for becoming a groundbreaking artist comparable to The Beatles and definitely surpassing his idol, Michael Jackson.