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The collaboration with Calvin Klein shows the masculine side of Justin Bieber, which is different from his previous image, and he was praised by his new image

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Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin got married in 2018, they have been supporting each other since then

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The song that makes Bieber come back to the spotlight 

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The song that makes Bieber come back to the spotlight 

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Bieber's first number one on US Billboard top 100 chart,

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Bieber's apology to the public for behaving badly in the past 

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Bieber's apology to the public for behaving badly in the past 

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It is believed that this song 'Sorry' is an apology to the public

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Justin Bieber - Sorry (PURPOSE : The Movement)

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One of the top performers in the music industry

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The early stage of Bieber's star image 2008-2012

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The early stage of Bieber's star image 2008-2012

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Justin Shares his view on being criticises of acting underage  

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How Justin Bieber have changed his star image through these years 

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How Justin Bieber have changed his star image through these years 

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How Bieber's personality have changed

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A record label boss has claimed that Justin Bieber is a “totally changed man”.

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Justin opens up about his journey, from debut to now, the struggles, ups and downs , and finding his own character

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It's been said that a man risks his marriage by coming home late-and may put it in even greater jeopardy by coming home early. Though he turns 25 next month, Justin Bieber believes that his late nights and their ruthlessly documented excesses are behind him. In their place, at this moment, the uncounted, uncertain hours of marriage stretch out, a red carpet hung like a tightrope.

It's just before Christmas, and white, tinseled trees festoon the lobby of the hotel where for years Bieber has lived when he is in Los Angeles. His suite is not quite in keeping with the holiday spirit, piled instead with the giant suitcases that are hardly worth unpacking only to pack again, and there is nothing much to eat, except for potato chips and grapes (simultaneously, as he demonstrates later). Bieber has just returned from an abortive attempt at the Hoffman Process, a weeklong intensive group-therapy retreat with a devoted Hollywood following. He feels that he wasn't ready. He rushed through the pre-Process questionnaire, and he wasn't comfortable with the exercises. "There were these séances," he explains. "Or not really séances but these traditions. They light candles, and it kind of freaked me out. You sit on a mat, you put a pillow down, and you beat your past out of it. I beat the fact that my mom was depressed a lot of my life and my dad has anger issues. Stuff that they passed on that I'm kind of mad they gave me."

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So Bieber left Hoffman's Napa Valley campus and flew to Seattle, where he joined his wife, the model and TV presenter Hailey Bieber (née Baldwin). They had a meeting with a marriage counselor recommended by their good friend and pastor Judah Smith and then drove to Suncadia, the forest resort where the Smiths have a weekend home. "The thing is, marriage is very hard," says Hailey. "That is the sentence you should lead with. It's really effing hard." The couple, who got married at a lower Manhattan courthouse last September after a twelve-week romance in the context of a nearly ten-year friendship, and who are still finalizing plans for a real wedding, sit side by side on the living room sofa in the oversize and expensive sweat outfits that represent their shared style. But the configuration shifts according to Justin's restless maneuverings: No sooner has he settled in than he jumps up to do a little jig; he climbs over the sofa, squeezes between Hailey and the bolster and enfolds her in his arms; he spins his body around and puts his head in her lap, then jumps up again, bathes her neck in kisses, and whispers endearments ("Guess what? You're amazing") before jolting himself out of his reverie. "It's hard for me to do just one thing at a time," he says, his tooth-filled smile like a beacon.

Justin wants me to know that I am catching him at an especially vulnerable moment, and he is nervous. It's been more than two years since he sat for a lengthy interview, around the release of his fourth (and most recent) studio album, Purpose. At the time he was in the middle of what many were calling an apology tour-a period in which he seemed to be asserting that he had put his now famously bad behavior behind him, coincident with a collection of songs that hit with critics, millennials, and men, not just the teenage girls who had propelled him to a decade of pop hegemony. But after performing more than 150 concerts in 40 countries in sixteen months for Purpose, in the summer of 2017 he canceled the final fourteen shows. "I got really depressed on tour," he recalls. "I haven't talked about this, and I'm still processing so much stuff that I haven't talked about. I was lonely. I needed some time."

It is impossible not to feel, in Justin's presence, that he is still recovering from something-the fame whose price was his childhood, the mortification of a thousand magnified adolescent peccadilloes, an accumulated uncertainty about the attentions of those in his orbit-and these scars crowd the surface like his innumerable tattoos. Smith told me that when he first met Justin as a young teenager, he felt called upon to love and protect him. After an hour in his company, I heard some approximation of this call. Journalists have often described Justin as difficult to talk to, a criticism that seems unfair. The frequently interviewed become deft at pivots and obfuscations, and so Justin's guilelessness can be disarming by comparison. He says just what comes to mind, no filters: "I like you"; "You're stressing me out, bro." He produces long, anxious exhalations, he gets the giggles, he apologizes if he's making me nervous. "It's been so hard for me to trust people," he explains. "I've struggled with the feeling that people are using me or aren't really there for me, and that writers are looking to get something out of me and then use it against me. One of the big things for me is trusting myself. I've made some bad decisions personally, and in relationships. Those mistakes have affected my confidence in my judgment. It's been difficult for me even to trust Hailey." He turns to her. "We've been working through stuff. And it's great, right?"

Justin and Hailey, who is 22, go way back-all the way to a Today-show appearance in 2009 to which she had been given tickets by her uncle the actor Alec Baldwin. Her father, Stephen, and Justin's mother, Pattie Mallette, who are both born-again Christians, developed a friendship that connected their kids, if not initially with much enthusiasm. Hailey refutes the version of their origin story that casts her as the ultimate Belieber (the name for Justin's army of fangirls). "I was never a superfan, of him or of anyone," she says. "It was never that crazed, screaming thing. I didn't think about it in any kind of way except for the fact that he was cute. Everybody had a crush on him. But for the first few years we had a weird age gap." They didn't develop a real friendship until a few years later, when Hailey started attending services at Hillsong, the Australian megachurch whose New York satellite was gathering at Irving Plaza at the time. "One day Justin walked into Hillsong and was like, 'Hey, you got older.' I was like, 'Yeah, what's up?' Over time he became my best guy friend. I was running around with him as his homie, but we weren't hanging out [romantically]."

Three years ago they did date, briefly, and while she was under no illusions about his capacity for exclusivity at the time, things did not end well. Both intimate that a betrayal occurred. "Negative things happened that we still need to talk about and work through," Hailey explains. " Fizzled would not be the right word-it was more like a very dramatic excommunication. There was a period where if I walked into a room, he would walk out." But in June 2018, they ran into each other at a conference in Miami hosted by Rich Wilkerson Jr., the pastor of Vous Church, who officiated at the marriage of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. "The common denominator, I promise you, is always church. By then we were past the drama. I just gave him a hug. By the end of the conference, he was like, 'We're not going to be friends.' I was like, 'We're not?' " Within a month, he had slipped an enormous oval-shaped diamond ring on her finger.

To understand the Biebers' relationship, it's necessary to understand their belief in and attraction to each other's fundamental differentness. He is the id to her superego, the wild thing she could never have permitted of herself. Hailey devoted twelve highly disciplined years to ballet. She was mostly homeschooled in suburban New York. She has never touched a drug, convinced of her genetic vulnerability to addiction. (Her father had a severe problem with cocaine before she was born and has been sober for nearly 30 years.) She is, by her own and others' accounts, a careful and deliberate person, rational to a fault. Friends describe her with words like secure, steady, and strong. Justin's friends call him soft, sensitive, all heart, ruled by emotions so intense that he has often needed to numb them with drugs, or not risk them on meaningful relationships.

"Justin is someone who cares too much," says Ryan Good, who spent years as his stylist and road manager and is creative-directing his new clothing line, Drew House. (Drew is Justin's middle name.) The vibe is a house in the San Fernando Valley where everyone is welcome: corduroy, primary colors, grunge, and skater influences. Justin and Ryan are designing everything themselves and releasing items on the website as they're ready, beginning this past December with a cheap hotel slipper appliquéd with Drew House's logo, a smiley face. (Justin loves hotel slippers.) They sold them for $5 a pair, and they are now fetching hundreds of dollars on eBay. "That caring," Ryan continues, "is what makes Justin such a great performer. He can really feel the mood of a crowd. But in his world, where there's so much take-take-take, it's hard for him to feel safe. Hailey is this force of calm. She is level."

Hailey views her own temperament as requiring the corrective of his. "He'll say, 'I feel,' and I'll say, 'I think,' " she explains. "I have to really dive deep and struggle to be in touch with my emotions. He gets there immediately."

"I'm the emotionally unstable one," says Justin. "I struggle with finding peace. I just feel like I care so much and I want things to be so good and I want people to like me. Hailey's very logical and structured, which I need. I've always wanted security-with my dad being gone sometimes when I was a kid, with being on the road. With the lifestyle I live, everything is so uncertain. I need one thing that's certain. And that"-he picks up her hand-"is my baby boo."

On a rainy night in Beverly Hills, a thousand or so 20-somethings in leather jackets, hoodies, skater T-shirts, and stoner pajama bottoms filter into the Saban Theatre for the weekly Wednesday service of Churchome, Judah Smith's Seattle-based ministry, which is part of a new wave of evangelical congregations attracting young Angelenos. High fives and bro hugs ripple through the auditorium. Tonight Smith, in a raw denim jacket with a shearling collar and black skinny jeans, has crafted a sermon around Old and New Testament stories of pairs of brothers: Cain and Abel, the Prodigal Son. He weaves in the tale of a recent trip in which his ear-hair trimmer was mistaken for a vibrator by the TSA. He prays for his beloved Seattle Seahawks (he is the team's official chaplain). And he preaches the importance of answering the question "Am I my brother's keeper?" with a constant and resounding Yes. Justin, Hailey, and their friends listen intently from a dozen reserved seats in the first two rows, their giant parkas making cartoon silhouettes.

"I wouldn't consider myself religious," Justin tells me. "That confuses a lot of people because they're like, Well, you go to church. I believe in the story of Jesus-that's the simplicity of what I believe. But I don't believe in all the religious elitism and pretentiousness, like people are better than you because they come to church, like you have to go to church and dress a certain way. I get sensitive when religion comes up because it's been so hurtful to a lot of people. I don't want to be thought of as someone who stands for any of the injustice that religion has done and does do."

Justin has been especially focused on his own moral development lately, what he describes as "character stuff." Last fall he made a decision to step back from music for the moment to focus on being the man he feels no one ever taught him how to be, and above all a good husband. "Just thinking about music stresses me out," he says. "I've been successful since I was thirteen, so I didn't really have a chance to find who I was apart from what I did. I just needed some time to evaluate myself: who I am, what I want out of my life, my relationships, who I want to be-stuff that when you're so immersed in the music business you kind of lose sight of." He has looked to Smith as a role model, just as he turned to the Hillsong pastor Carl Lentz four years ago at what he regards as his personal low point. Justin was raised by a single mother in small-town Ontario public housing, and he burst into fame at age thirteen when the man who would become his manager, Scooter Braun, discovered a group of YouTube videos that his mother had posted. Braun brought him to Atlanta, where he was introduced to Usher and given a new style and a new sound. He worshiped his mentors in hip-hop, absorbing their vernacular, singing about shorties before he knew what the word meant. "I was real at first," Justin says, "and then I was manufactured as, slowly, they just took more and more control." It felt fantastic to be famous, to be adored by girls. At sixteen, he blindly believed the hype. "I started really feeling myself too much. People love me, I'm the shit-that's honestly what I thought. I got very arrogant and cocky. I was wearing sunglasses inside." (Inside at night, says Hailey.)

By 2013, he had immolated the sugary, prepubescent teen idol. And within another year he was a train wreck. The cringing media cataloged his succession of offenses, from egging a neighbor's house to urinating in a mop bucket, from turning up in a Brazilian brothel to catching a DUI charge after drag-racing his Lamborghini in Miami Beach. Oh, and there was the unfortunate capuchin monkey seized at customs in Germany. Justin would like to laugh at his teenage self, and indeed he seems torn between self-flagellation and a desire to give himself the break that few others were offering. "A lot of the douchey things I was doing gave people the right to be like, Man, that's frickin' douchey, bro. But a lot of the stuff was like-me peeing in a bucket, people made such a big deal of that. Or me owning a monkey. It's like, if you had the money that I had, why wouldn't you get a monkey? You would get a monkey!" Internally, Justin was dissolving. He was abusing Xanax, which allowed him to somnambulate through a social life that never squared with his upbringing. "I found myself doing things that I was so ashamed of, being super-promiscuous and stuff, and I think I used Xanax because I was so ashamed. My mom always said to treat women with respect. For me that was always in my head while I was doing it, so I could never enjoy it. Drugs put a screen between me and what I was doing. It got pretty dark. I think there were times when my security was coming in late at night to check my pulse and see if I was still breathing."

Smith had always been clear that he was there if Justin needed him, but he did not see it as his place to intervene. "I've said before that I've learned more from Justin than I think he's learned from me-about the human condition, about pain," Smith says. "He gives a lot to the world, and a lot has been taken from him, including a bit of the natural progression of development, the chance to grow relationally and socially. He can feel everything, and that's from those years spent wondering who in the room is being authentic with him. His spider sense is remarkable, but it haunts him a bit. He'll notice people's eyebrow movements. I get emotional now, watching him make a great effort to care about the people around him when the last decade of his life was lived in a glass box."

Lentz has a more tough-love style, and in 2014, as Justin was tanking, he pressed for the singer to move into his home in New Jersey for an informal detox. For several weeks they played basketball, hockey, and soccer. Justin interned for Lentz at Hillsong and refocused on his religious faith. Though he drinks alcohol socially, Justin says that he has not ingested a drug since. Hailey remembers the trip to the Lentzes' as the culmination of a long, frightening chapter. "I grieved very intensely over the whole situation," she remembers. "I just wanted him to be happy and be good and be safe and feel joy. But I'm really proud of him. To do it without a program, and to stick with it without a sober coach or AA or classes-I think it's extraordinary. He is, in ways, a walking miracle."

Last summer, after years as a nomad, Justin bought a house outside Toronto. The couple settled into it in September, and they agree that real cohabitation-the kind that doesn't take place in hotel rooms, on vacations-has been a test. They are squabbling over decorating decisions. Healthy communication is a constant challenge, and in therapy they are working on developing an ebb and flow so that their personalities don't lock horns. Sometimes they tiptoe around each other, and at others they practice arguing without being unkind. "Fighting is good," Justin says. "Doesn't the Bible talk about righteous anger? We don't want to lose each other. We don't want to say the wrong thing, and so we've been struggling with not expressing our emotions, which has been driving me absolutely crazy because I just need to express myself, and it's been really difficult to get her to say what she feels."

"You'll get it out of me the next morning," Hailey promises. She admits that the first weeks of marriage were deeply lonely for her. She felt homesick for her parents, even though she hadn't lived with them in five years. Perhaps hardest of all was her sense that in marrying Justin she suddenly had a hundred million rivals. So many people on social media seemed to be rooting for them to fail. No one appreciated how seriously she had taken the decision to get married, how much she had prayed about it. "I prayed to feel peace about the decision, and that's where I landed," she explains. "I love him very much. I have loved him for a long time."

When the couple reconnected last June, Justin was more than a year into a self-imposed tenure of celibacy. He had what he calls "a legitimate problem with sex." It was his remaining vice, an addiction that had long since ceased to provide him any pleasure. Not having sex, he decided, was a way for him to feel closer to God. "He doesn't ask us not to have sex for him because he wants rules and stuff," Justin explains. "He's like, I'm trying to protect you from hurt and pain. I think sex can cause a lot of pain. Sometimes people have sex because they don't feel good enough. Because they lack self-worth. Women do that, and guys do that. I wanted to rededicate myself to God in that way because I really felt it was better for the condition of my soul. And I believe that God blessed me with Hailey as a result. There are perks. You get rewarded for good behavior." People have speculated that Justin and Hailey married because she got pregnant, which is false. (No babies for at least a couple of years, Hailey says.) Justin admits that while a desire finally to have sex was one reason they sped to the courthouse, it was not the only reason. "When I saw her last June, I just forgot how much I loved her and how much I missed her and how much of a positive impact she made on my life. I was like, Holy cow, this is what I've been looking for."

One thing they have learned is that they are pretty happy homebodies. They like to lounge around the house, watch movies, listen to music and dance in their kitchen. Though there is work to do, Justin wishes that Hailey would take just a little pressure off herself. "She's trying to be this grown-up," he says. "I think we can be married and still have fun and enjoy our adolescence. That's something we're talking about."

"It's just that I'm fighting to do this the right way, to build a healthy relationship," Hailey clarifies. "I want people to know that. We're coming from a really genuine place. But we're two young people who are learning as we go. I'm not going to sit here and lie and say it's all a magical fantasy. It's always going to be hard. It's a choice. You don't feel it every single day. You don't wake up every day saying, 'I'm absolutely so in love and you are perfect.' That's not what being married is. But there's something beautiful about it anyway-about wanting to fight for something, commit to building with someone. We're really young, and that's a scary aspect. We're going to change a lot. But we're committed to growing together and supporting each other in those changes. That's how I look at it. At the end of the day, too, he's my best friend. I never get sick of him."

Justin grins. "And you're my baby boo."
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It's been said that a man risks his marriage by coming home late-and may put it in even greater jeopardy by coming home early. Though he turns 25 next month, Justin Bieber believes that his late nights and their ruthlessly documented excesses are behind him.

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Bieber announce he will retired later the year, which hurt fans heart

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Abandoned his 20 weeks old pet monkey Mally in Germany

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The Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber will have to pay thousands of euros to an animal shelter caring for the pet monkey seized two months ago by German customs officials.

The customs office in Munich said Bieber has until midnight on Friday to contact them, otherwise Mally, the singer's capuchin monkey, would become "property of the state" and would be transferred to a permanent home at a zoo or animal park elsewhere in Germany.

Mally was seized by German customs on 28 March when Bieber, 19, failed to produce required vaccination and import papers after landing in Munich while on tour. It was quarantined and cared for at the city's animal shelter, where the manager, Karl Heinz Joachim, said Mally, now 20 weeks old, had fared well and gained weight.

The shelter has criticised Bieber for keeping such a young monkey as a pet, saying the animal should not have been taken away from its mother until it was a year old. Experts say capuchin monkeys also need to be kept in groups as they are very sociable animals.

"The best thing would be not to buy one at all, but if you do, buy five," said Joachim.

He said emails from Bieber's management to the shelter indicated the singer does not want the monkey anymore, but that the final decision would have to be made by German authorities.

"Our contact is the person that the monkey belongs to," said Munich customs spokesman Thomas Meister. "We've had contact with lots of people but none of them was an authorised representative."

Meister said the cost of care, food and vet visits at the Munich shelter amounted to several thousand euros.

"You can bet we are going to ask for that money back," he said.

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Justin Bieber 'owes thousands' after leaving monkey hanging in Germany

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The Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber will have to pay thousands of euros to an animal shelter caring for the pet monkey seized two months ago by German customs officials.

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In 2013 Billboard Music Award, Bieber got Booed by the audience .

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Fifty-seven seconds. That's how much time elapsed between CeeLo Green announcing that Justin Bieber had captured the first-ever Milestone Award, presented by Chevrolet at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, and Bieber actually saying something into the microphone onstage at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. In between were some perplexingly uncomfortable seconds. After taking hold of the trophy, Bieber swayed toward and away from the mic, unsure whether or not to cut through the strangely divergent chorus of yelps that had greeted his latest stage appearance. The pop superstar had commanded the spotlight thrice before the Milestone Award was presented - once to play his "Believe" track "Take You," then to take home the Top Male Artist award, and again to assist Will.i.am in his "#thatPOWER" performance - without a whiff of negativity in the air. But when Bieber topped Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars toward the end of the ceremony, he quickly hugged manager Scooter Braun, casually strolled onstage from the front row, and fidgeted awkwardly as very loud cheers and very loud boos rained down upon him.

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"I'm 19 years old... I'm 19 years old," Bieber declared, right hand on his heart, when those 57 seconds finally came to a close. "I think I'm doing a pretty good job."

The next movement of Bieber's impromptu acceptance speech was defensive without being seething, hurried but not without talking points: "And basically, from my heart I really just want to say, it should really be about the music. It should be about the craft that I'm making, and... this is not a gimmick, this is not a gimmick. I'm an artist, and I should be taken seriously. All this other bull should not be spoken of." He then rattled off a laundry list of thank yous, and scurried offstage.

Why did the person being presented the Milestone Award - a fan-driven honor earned through millions upon millions of votes - feel the need to reassure his onlookers that he was, indeed, not a gimmick? And who, exactly, does Bieber want to take him seriously, if not the thousands of screaming fans at his arena shows, the same throngs of pop enthusiasts who helped him score a record five No. 1 albums before his 19th birthday and turn him into one of the biggest teenage stars of all time? For years, the anti-Bieber cries have been drowned out by the deafening worldwide support for his music and brand; the minor cracks, such as when he was criticized after being photographed allegedly smoking marijuana last January, were always given a thick coat of PR spackle (such as a winking "Saturday Night Live" skit), so that things could be smoothed over and left in the past.

And although Bieber's music has never been heralded by the blogosphere, his offerings have generally been well-received (on critical aggregating site Metacritic, his "My World," "My World 2.0" and "Believe" albums have earned combined scores of 65, 68 and 68, respectively), while being treated as agreeably harmless pop. At the 2011 Billboard Music Awards, Bieber caused a riot when he kissed then-girlfriend Selena Gomez and won Best New Artist; at the 2012 ceremony, the Biebs performed "Boyfriend" and garnered applause when he scored the Top Social Artist trophy. What flipped the switch in 2013 and helped the previously inaudible backlash ruffle Bieber's feathers when he won the Milestone Award? What is this "bull" that killed Bieber's vibe?

Let's look at the three possible explanations as to why Bieber was booed at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards:

1. Biebs Fatigue: Simply put, the 2013 Billboard Music Awards included a sizable helping of Bieber, with two performances in three hours and a Top Male Artist win before the Milestone Award was presented. Three months after another Justin - Mr. Timberlake - kept popping up at the 2013 Grammys and threatened overexposure, perhaps the audience at the Billboard Music Awards simply tired of seeing Bieber show up on stage and snag more of the spotlight.

2. Angry Taylor/Bruno Fans: Bieber shouted out his "Belieber fan group" while accepting his Top Male Artist award, but he really should have showed them some love for the Milestone Award, in which fan votes pushed Bieber onstage instead of Swift or Mars. To be sure, those two artists also have millions of dedicated fans, all of whom wanted to see their idol come out on top. At that point in the Billboard Music Awards telecast, Mars had just lost to Bieber in the Top Male Artist category, and Swift had yet to claim the Top Artist prize over the Biebs. Were those boos the expressions of frustration from the seemingly scorned diehards in attendance?

3. Wacky World Tour Backlash: From mid-February to mid-May, the international leg of Bieber's Believe tour was a high-profile comedy of errors: there were cancelled dates, "worst birthday" tweets, backstage collapses, bungled comments about Anne Frank, song theft accusations, missed monkeys, fan tackles and raided tour buses, all in an incredibly short timespan. For the most part, Bieber and his team quickly and correctly resolved these problems and moved on, offering apologies when there needed to be. Plus, in the middle of the perceived mayhem was a monster-selling tour, with tons of Beliebers blissfully taking in the spectacle. But a dark cloud seemed embedded within the scraps of news coming from Bieber's tour over the past few months, and the Billboard Music Award boos could have been festering ill will toward one, some or all of them. Bieber has faced controversy before - remember when someone claimed that he was the father of their child? - but never in such a concentrated serving size. Call it the "Lemony Snicket Effect": in a few months, the public perception of Bieber had changed due to a series of unfortunate events.

Presumably, Bieber seemed to think that option No. 3 was the cause of the aggregated vitriol on Sunday night, which is why he fired back with proclamations that "it should really be about the music," and that the photos of him wearing a gas mask or inexplicably taking off his shirt in airport security lines was "bull that should not be spoken of." In short, Bieber's Milestone Award was like the PG-rated version of Kanye West's anti-paparazzi rant during his surprise show at New York's Roseland Ballroom last week, in which the rapper told the crowd, "I ain't hear to apologize to no muthafuckas, man... I'm trying to make some music that inspires people to be the best that they can be. And I don't want nobody else to ask anything of me! Don't ask nothing else of me." Bieber and West are massive celebrities under constant scrutiny, and both artists have the squeaks of outnumbered cynics ringing in their ears.

The subtle difference between the two is that West is secure enough with his own artistry to take brash, ebullient risks with his music, as he did one night before the Billboard Music Awards on "Saturday Night Live." Whether you think "New Slaves" and "Black Skinhead" are brilliant or boneheaded, West's ability to push his sound into daring new corners is highly impressive; Bieber may very well reach a similar frontier as a recording artist someday - just look at what Timberlake is doing a decade removed from his *NSYNC days - but at this point in his career, he's still playing by the rules, appealing to a younger fan base and literally trying to convince his adult peers to see him as legitimate. West has figured out a way to curtail his controversial personal exploits by always shifting the focus on his dazzling music, and this is exactly the balance that Bieber was pleading for on Sunday night, but has yet to properly achieve.

The crowd members at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards that booed Bieber may have done so due to fatigue, T-Swift devotion, tour horror stories, or a combination of all three. Whatever the explanation, it was a particularly mean action to take against a kid who, aside from a few missteps, has performed a lot of positive work within and outside of his music. Bieber will always have his detractors, and now that he's stared them down for 57 seconds, it will be interesting to see how he handles the boos whenever they come his way again. The best-case scenario? He absorbs that criticism, uses it to fuel an artistic leap, and releases new music that forces people to see him as a serious artist. In these instances, showing is better than telling.

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Justin Bieber Booed at Billboard Music Awards: Understanding The Backlash

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Fifty-seven seconds. That's how much time elapsed between CeeLo Green announcing that Justin Bieber had captured the first-ever Milestone Award, presented by Chevrolet at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, and Bieber actually saying something into the microphone onstage at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

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at the age of 18, he was frequently criticised for looking and sounding too young to his age

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The same group behind the action, 4Chan, also encouraged its readers to search for the phrase "Justin Bieber Syphilis" on Google to make it number one on the search engine's trending list.

Most recently, YouTube - the source of his success - was hit by hackers who focused on Bieber's music videos, redirecting users to adult websites and placing banner messages saying he had died.

One reason behind the revulsion Bieber attracts could be his phenomenal success at such a young age.

Bieber, the only child of a single mother from Ontario, Canada, was signed by Usher, the singer and producer, when aged 13 and his first single, One Time, reached the top 30 in more than 10 countries.

His debut album, My World, went platinum in the US and gave him seven singles in the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Bieber's character also appears to strike a particularly sour note with his internet critics, with many remarks commenting on his youthful appearance, his teen-pop songs, his image as a heart-throb to young teenage girls and his manner of speech, which his detractors say is more suited to rappers than someone of his middle-class background.

A Facebook page entitled "I Hate Justin Bieber" has more than 180,000 fans and includes discussion topics such as "Justin Bieber sings like a girl" and "ways to kill Justin".

Those who are not enamoured by Bieber can even download a "shaved Bieber" application for their internet browser that blocks out any mention of the pop star while they surf the internet.

The add-on, available on Firefox, automatically removes any instances of the words "Bieber" or "Justin Bieber" on web pages, along with any photos that include the words as part of their file name.

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Why is Justin Bieber so loved and hated?

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The same group behind the action, 4Chan, also encouraged its readers to search for the phrase "Justin Bieber Syphilis" on Google to make it number one on the search engine's trending list. Most recently, YouTube - the source of his success - was hit by hackers who focused on Bieber's music videos, redirecting users to adult websites and placing banner messages saying he had died.

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always shirtless
have few tattoo on him
troublesome

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Justin Bieber's image from 2008 to 2012 

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Justin Bieber's image from 2008 to 2012 

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Innocent , with no tattoo , dress like a normal kid, teen pop idol, a heartthrob

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After all the negative headlines Bieber have made, Bieber  threaten fans that he is retiring in 2013

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Fans of Canadian pop star Justin Bieber are trying to figure out what to make of a message on Twitter in which the Ontario native said he was retiring.

Bieber followed up his tweet "My fellow beliebers, I'm officially retiring" with a message to his fans that included a promise he would "never leave" them.

The tweets came on the eve of the Christmas Day release of Bieber's movie Justin Bieber's Believe.
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There was no mention of retirement on Bieber's official website and his publicist had no comment on the tweets, which have sparked a frenzy of reaction on social media.

One fan tweeted that if the 19-year-old sensation from Stratford, Ont., retires she would "retire from living" while another tweeted "life would not be the same."

However, some of the singer's less enthusiastic followers had a more sarcastic tone, with one tweeting: "How can Justin Bieber retire? He's not even old enough to drink."

Another tweeted, "Justin Bieber is going to retire, there is a Santa!"

Bieber also talked about retirement earlier this month during an interview on a Los Angeles radio station.

But his manager Scooter Braun was quoted by the British television network ITN as saying Bieber was kidding and is only going to take a break next year.

Bieber has had a run of negative media in the past year, including apologizing for a video in which he is seen urinating into a bucket, cursing Bill Clinton and spraying a photo of the former American president with cleaning fluid in a New York City restaurant kitchen.

In March, the singer scuffled with a photographer outside a London hotel during a European tour. Later that month, police were called to his Los Angeles area home after a neighbour claimed he had been threatened and struck by Bieber.

In June, Bieber struck a photographer with his Ferrari sports car while driving away from a comedy club in Los Angeles, though police said the accident was not considered a hit-and-run.

The movie, which takes the name of Bieber's third studio album, could help repair his image after the difficult year.

With files from Reuters

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Justin Bieber retirement tweets leave fans in dark

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Fans of Canadian pop star Justin Bieber are trying to figure out what to make of a message on Twitter in which the Ontario native said he was retiring. Bieber followed up his tweet "My fellow beliebers, I'm officially retiring" with a message to his fans that included a promise he would "never leave" them.

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Bieber was charged with driving under the influence in Miami, a case he settled in August by pleading guilty to careless driving and resisting arrest. while he is on probation for a vandalism conviction that resulted from egging a neighbour's home in January 2014.

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Justin Bieber arrested on drunken driving, resisting arrest charges | CNN

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Justin Bieber was charged with drunken driving and resisting arrest after police saw the pop star street racing Thursday, Miami Beach police said.

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Justin Bieber's star image in the early stage 

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Justin Bieber's star image in the early stage 

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In 2010, Justin Bieber launches a nail polish line called 'one less lonely girl'. it is a great success as it sold millions of bottle in two month.

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The song that put Justin in to public eyes

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The song that put Justin in to public eyes

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Baby's success makes Justin Bieber heartthrob and a teen pop superstar

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Help Haiti charity events, (improve his image )

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Help Haiti charity events, (improve his image )

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collaborate with over 80 stars and performer

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We Are The World 25 For Haiti - Official Video

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Performs for former US president Obama

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Justin Bieber performs for President Obama

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Former marketing executive of So SO Def Recordings Scooter Braun accidentally watch this video of Bieber and was impressed, then he decided to sign Bieber as one of his artist.

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With You - Chris Brown Cover - Justin singing