Justin Bieber, the Marmite of pop music, is at it again. Bieber recently caused upset online when it was reported he signed the book at the Anne Frank House and Holocaust Museum by stating that he hoped she'd be a Belieber were she alive. Did you hear that? It's the sound of millions of people smacking their forehead in a massive, collective facepalm.
Now some people don't see this as too offensive, whilst arguably there is cause for upset in that it certainly wasn't the time or the place to write such things. In one of the most emotive holocaust remembrance sites to focus more on yourself and your achievements over the death of a poor young women and one of the most influential people within our history seems egotistical and inappropriate. Statistically, if Anne Frank were alive today and a young woman with contemporary hobbies and sensibilities, she may have been a Bieber fan but this point seems irrelevant. To be standing in a building that stands as a memorial of the atrocities of war to focus on your fame and achievements shows he failed to leave with the intended message and response. This comment was self-obsessed and immature with Justin leaving us with this megalomaniac image.
What's worse in this situation is that so many Beliebers have tweeted in response questions such as "who is anne frank?"
This exposes a much darker problem. If teens haven't been educated enough to know who Anne Frank is, what else have they missed out on in their education? My mother and father too kit upon themselves to take us to visit war memorials and even locations like Auschwitz and Birkenau so that we would have a deeper understanding of the devastating impact of war and genocide. Though not everyone can travel to such places so as to experience them these are crucial monuments within our collective history that ought to be known and remembered. I suppose the silver lining here is that some people will now know of Anne Frank and learn something from the experience.
Fame seems to have robbed Justin of all sense of humility. This comes after a wave of recent mishaps on Justin's time in Europe. He's had monkeys detained at airports, come on stage almost 2 hours late in London, getting into fights with paparazzi photographers out on the street all while claiming that the world and press are against him whilst tweeting his voice over the thousands of voices from upset fans. After waiting almost 2 hours the social networking world was ablaze with messages about Biebs and his lateness which he then tweeted saying he was only around 40 minutes late as if to suggest his voice and opinion had more credit than the thousands of upset fans at Wembley Stadium. This shows a great level of disrespect towards his Beliebers. With a new Bieber trending topic every other day the sweltering heat of devotion from his fans comes across as obsessive and manic. This young man seems to have fans eating out of the palm of his hand which is worrying for someone so young. This is someone who, in interviews, has said to a gaggle of teenage fans that abortion is wrong and even if it happens as a result of rape 'everything happens for a reason'.
Anyone who attempts to even justify rape in my books is deluded. From the mass of bad press the kid has been receiving it seems odd that his fans seem forever apologetic for his actions, someone they'll probably never meet, and to this obsessive and borderline toxic degree.
Speaking of star antics... what's Lady Gaga up to these days? She's totally vanished from my conciousness these past few months.
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