Ooh, check it out, there’s this thing called the RIAA that uses the state to destroy competition so it can coerce radio stations into playing only the so-called “with a bullet” musicians from their own stables and then reap huge yet artificial rewards from mostly unsuspecting consumers — and I’m prepared to call it a market-based success story.

Pathetic.

I’m not sure I will be able to. I recall how I thought David Archuleta was such a marvelous talent on American Idol singing those old ballads with such originality, but I really can’t relate to much of the music he’s putting out for his teen-age audience. He’s capable of singing much more challenging stuff.

“I don’t like Bieber’s music myself, but the way he was able to become a commercial success is what stood out to me the most. There are a lot of counter-establishment musicians but few become “mega-stars.” It’s always interesting what you learn on mises.org.”

I thought that a fashion was determined by the tyranny of majority, in this case the majority likes him, even if this majority is women, teenage girls, pre-pubere girls, the record industry, the media shills etc. They outnumber the haters, so I thought the fashion was to like him, no to hate him.

The haters are the counter culture, the anti-culture, the underground.

I confess, I’m an envious rat, at least I am honest as to why I hate him, because I envy his quick artificial fortune. Just like I hated the whole pottermania and I’m not a big fan of J.K. Rowling either.

And also, Justin Bieber might have talent and stamina and nerves of steel, but he is absolutely not the only one in this world, he just happens to have been the chosen one of the industry and the media. They could have chosen another one and the result would have been the same.

Yes, Justin Bieber was an opportunity for the media and the industry, but they could have picked another one and they could have picked more than one.

I am not ready to concede that Justin Bieber is self made, he was also made by those who supported him. And as far as I’m concerned, his music and product is trash, just like McDonald’s.

Ask Gerald Celente what he thinks of Justin Bieber.

Realy, Jeffrey Tucker, I liked you better when you were focusing on toilets, diswhashers and phosphate.

It’s almost a mathematical certainty that long-lived top success in competitive activity is improbable. That applies to Justin Bieber the same as it applies to any other artist or company etc. No one here, including Mr. Tucker, is suggesting otherwise.

The point I was making is that while Bieber’s pitch range may not be particularly wide, you are wrong to suggest that it is not wide enough to sing metal. Songwriters can accommodate his particular range if need be.

His timbre, on the other hand, is what would prevent him from switching to metal or many other genres.

For example, here’s the Top 100 from 1962:

http://www.jamrockentertainment.com/billboard-music-top-100-songs-listed-by-year/top-100-songs-1962.html

And here’s the Top 100 from 1968:

76 bands made up the Top 100 in 1962. Only 10 of them survived to 1968 (Beach Boys, Beatles, Dion, James Brown, Jerry Butler, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Tommy Roe, Valentinos, Volumes).

Comparing it a scant 12 years after 1962, only 3 of those bands were still popular, leaving Ben E. King, Marvin Gaye, and Neil Sedaka as bands or singers that had any relevance over that period.

The public these days are just as fickle. Only 11 out of the 76 bands or artists in the top 100 managed to retain their popularity from 2002 to 2007. By 2010, only 2 bands or artists in 2002 remained popular in 2010. Using the 12 year period I selected earlier, only 1 artist survived from 1998 to 2010, Usher.

Most artists, even the ones viewed as highly talented, tend to have incredibly short careers, usually two to three years, before vanishing into obscurity. The reason we remember The Beatles and Elvis is becuase we’ve enjoyed a good 40 years to allow our memories to forget the Little Evas and the Ruby & the Romantics.

That’s the main reason I’m thinking Beiber won’t be around for very long, at least not on the most popular list – mainly because very few artists ever are.

Under communist Russia, or Communist China or Communist DPRK, Justin Bieber would be working himself to death at the Gulag.

Is that why socialism is good ?

The key to his success is that he finds common ordinary subjects and turns them into fun and entertaining articles all the while providing us with useful information. That stuff about TSP was quite fun to read about a subject that would normally be boring: soaps and detergents. And when he complained about low flush toilets and how in the good old time, they were better, the way he spined the subject was so fun I couldn’t help myself but fool around and got carried away.

Did you mean timbre instead of pitch? I’m sure he is capable of hitting most of the notes in metal.