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Is Justin Bieber unravelling?
The Canadian singer returns to LA and more trouble after scandal-plagued European tour
Pop sensation Justin Bieber flew
from Europe back to his Los Angeles area home on Tuesday and into an argument with one of his neighbours – the latest in a series of odd incidents involving the teen singer. Deputies were called to the 19year-old's house in Calabasas, California, after a neighbour claimed that he had been threatened and struck by Bieber, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore. A police report alleging battery and threats by Bieber had been filed and was being investigated, Whitmore said. No charges have been filed against the Canadian pop star and Whitmore declined to give details, citing an ongoing investigation. Under California law, a misdemeanour battery charge can include unwanted touching or spitting. The alleged altercation took place after the Boyfriend singer flew overnight from Poland, startling photographers and Lodz airport officials by stripping off his shirt on a freezing evening as he walked through security and to his private jet. Bieber's publicist did not return calls for comment on Tuesday's incident, which follows odd behaviour by the singer during his European tour, including turning up late for a London concert and wearing a gas mask on a night out. A source close to the star said the Calabasas dispute stemmed from a neighbour who came by to complain about parties at the house while Bieber was away. Words were exchanged but no physical altercation took place, the source said, citing the singer's security detail. Celebrity website TMZ.com said the dispute was provoked by Bieber driving a newly delivered Ferrari up and down the street at high speed early on Tuesday morning. The Bieber source disagreed with that claim. Bieber has been playing concerts around Europe for his Believe tour for several weeks, and his next concert is scheduled for Munich, Germany, today. TEENAGE STAR WOES? In just four years, Justin Bieber has gone from fielding innocuous questions about his haircut to denying that he’s in desperate need of rehab. Bieber’s grown up and into tabloid territory, with his recent troubles making some question whether he’s just the latest teen star gone wild. This week’s troubles come on the tails of a series of unfortunate events last week. In what could have been his worst week ever, the 19-year-old pop star struggled with his breathing and fainted backstage at a London show, was taken to a hospital and then was caught on camera clashing with a paparazzo. Days earlier, he was booed by his beloved fans when he showed up late to a concert. Those incidents come after photos of Bieber appearing to smoke marijuana hit the Web, and some headlines have suggested that the ultra-popular star is going through a famous Britney Spears-style meltdown. Others suggest he’s struggling with a more common condition: being a teenager. Donnie Wahlberg, who was just 14 when New Kids on the Block debuted on the music scene in the late 1980s to wild fan craze, said he remembers the pressure and hard times that came with being a teen celebrity. “Justin Bieber’s making mistakes that everyone makes and he’s probably trying things and exploring things that most kids his age explore, but the problem is he’s got 50 paparazzi chasing him around when he does it,” 43-yearold Wahlberg said. “When we are 19 and 20, we think we can take on the world and we do forget that there is a lot of life left to live in front of us, and hopefully he’ll get through these times and find his way into a long career and a healthy adulthood.” The pressure was evident in the days following his collapse backstage at the O2 Arena, as the Grammy-nominated singer wrote on Instagram that he’s sick of the “countless lies in the press” and that he would not be heading to rehab. “I’ve accomplished more than I could’ve ever dreamed of, i’m 19 and it must be scary to some people to think that this is just the beginning,” he wrote. “I’m a good person with a big heart. ... All this isn’t easy. I get angry sometimes. I’m human. I’m gonna make mistakes.” Even mistakes seem like new territory for Bieber: since breaking out at 15 he’s seen five of his albums hit No. 1 on Billboard’s 200 albums chart and nearly 20 songs crack the Top 40. He’s had several world tours, launched a massively successful 3-D movie about his life and made deals that include his own dolls, nail polish and fragrances. He’s got a social media presence that includes 52 million likes on Facebook and 36 million Twitter followers. But does that leave any time to be a kid? Nick Carter, considered the wildest of the Backstreet Boys, was also the group’s youngest member when they began to dominate the music charts in the 1990s, and he recalls the days when he grew mad as an overworked teen who yearned for a normal life. “I remember getting tired. I remember getting burned out and I’m like, ‘Let me relax’ and you have managers, and the record label... and then before you know it, the artist gets resentful and starts to revolt against them and that’s when you end up with a situation like what’s going on,” he said, referring to Bieber. “In a lot of ways you’re resentful and you’re missing out with your friends, your childhood, you see all of your high school friends growing up and you’re like, ‘Oh, I got to go back on tour.”’ Vincent Herbert, the record executive who signed Lady Gaga and also discovered the teen R&B boy band Mindless Behavior and singer JoJo at 12, said that young singers need role models around them who are fit, and that there must be “time for music and time to be kids.” “I think sometimes young artists get to that (frustrated) point because they’re young and it’s a lot and it gets overwhelming. I don’t think Justin Bieber is at that moment, I just think he had a bad week. That kid’s a phenomenal artist, he’s such a hardworking person, he’s such a good kid,” said Herbert. But he acknowledges that for
Bodyguards try to block the view of Canadian singer Justin Bieber as he goes through Wladyslaw Reymont Airport in Lodz. young artists, the pressure does sometimes lead to meltdowns: “No one’s a machine – we’re all human.” Spears became the poster child for that after she shaved her head and lost custody of her children, and more recently Demi Lovato checked into rehab because of an eating disorder and self-mutilation, though both have released successful music since. And many young members of Hollywood have been rebellious, used drugs and watched their careers falter, from Mackenzie Phillips to Corey Haim and Corey Feldman. Carter said his bad attitude began to affect his business, and young singers must think twice about their actions even when they’re at a breaking point. He says he’s now working to rework those lost relationships. “I probably messed up a particular movie I was going on an audition for because I showed up late and people looked at me like I was disrespecting them when really I was just out of my head,” he said. “I’ve been for years right now scrounging and clawing and proving through my work and staying away from alcohol and trying to be the best person I can be to make up for all the things I’ve done, and that’s been hard.” While Bieber, who was raised by a single mother in Canada, has held on to a pretty squeaky image, last year began to suggest some troubles: He vomited twice onstage during a concert in Glendale, Ariz., he was cited for speeding on a Los Angeles freeway and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s investigators questioned the singer after he reportedly scuffled with paparazzi who tried to photograph him and then-girlfriend Selena Gomez as they left a movie theatre. “What he’s going through ultimately is just the passage of adulthood and to go through that with this kind of scrutiny – it’s hard,” said Bill Werde, the editorial director of Billboard. “He’s going to have to decide if he wants that or not. He’s going to have to decide if he can handle the sort of bad that comes with the good.” Both Carter and Wahlberg are reluctant to give advice to Bieber simply because when they were in his position, they wouldn’t have listened. “The facts are that he’s going to do what he wants to do,” Carter said. “What happened to me when I was that age was the same thing – it’s power. Your parents are telling you, ‘Please don’t do this, please don’t do that’ and you’re looking at them going, ‘Who are you? I am me.”’
Herald staff with AP, Reuters
INDIE LOCAL MAGAZINE UN FAULDUO
Experimenting with comics
Are you a comic book buff? Then check out the little magazine Un Faulduo that is published in Buenos Aires. Un Faulduo is also the name of a group of artists that experiment with comics. They run a blog at http://www.unfaulduo.blogspot.com .ar/. The magazine released its first issue in 2005. It recently released issue number 9 edited by Nicolás Daniluk. The new issue includes the work of the four group members (Daniluk, Ezequiel García, Nicolás Moguilevsky and Nicolás Zukerfeld) and some guests, including Sergio Langer, Lucas Nine and Cecilia Guerra. The flavour of this magazine, which takes its name from a 19th century anarchist newspaper, is extremely experimental. Format, and editor, changes with each issue.
Herald staff
Classical music in San Isidro
The sixth edition of the classical music festival El Camino del Santo is already ongoing in the northern suburb of San Isidro, and offers a cornucopia of good music during the Easter holiday and beyond – for free! Programming includes six more concerts featuring music by Mozart, Schumann, Bruhns, Reincken, Erlebach, Bach, Brahms, Schumann and Schubert, among others. Today at 4pm, at the Museo Pueyrredón (Rivera Indarte 48), there will be a show for children with Stravinsky’s La historia del soldado, directed by Francisco Varela with actor Mariano Chiesa as narrator. At 9pm, at the Colegio San Juan el Precursor (Anchorena 419), baritone Víctor Torres will sing 17th and 18th century German music with a Baroque group. Tomorrow at 9pm, at the same venue, José Luis Juri (piano) and Geert Baeckelandt (clarinet) will play Brahms.
Herald staff
The cover of Un faulduo.
REUTERS
| ENTERTAINMENT | 13
Is Justin Bieber unravelling?
The Canadian singer returns to LA and more trouble after scandal-plagued European tour
Pop sensation Justin Bieber flew
from Europe back to his Los Angeles area home on Tuesday and into an argument with one of his neighbours – the latest in a series of odd incidents involving the teen singer. Deputies were called to the 19year-old's house in Calabasas, California, after a neighbour claimed that he had been threatened and struck by Bieber, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore. A police report alleging battery and threats by Bieber had been filed and was being investigated, Whitmore said. No charges have been filed against the Canadian pop star and Whitmore declined to give details, citing an ongoing investigation. Under California law, a misdemeanour battery charge can include unwanted touching or spitting. The alleged altercation took place after the Boyfriend singer flew overnight from Poland, startling photographers and Lodz airport officials by stripping off his shirt on a freezing evening as he walked through security and to his private jet. Bieber's publicist did not return calls for comment on Tuesday's incident, which follows odd behaviour by the singer during his European tour, including turning up late for a London concert and wearing a gas mask on a night out. A source close to the star said the Calabasas dispute stemmed from a neighbour who came by to complain about parties at the house while Bieber was away. Words were exchanged but no physical altercation took place, the source said, citing the singer's security detail. Celebrity website TMZ.com said the dispute was provoked by Bieber driving a newly delivered Ferrari up and down the street at high speed early on Tuesday morning. The Bieber source disagreed with that claim. Bieber has been playing concerts around Europe for his Believe tour for several weeks, and his next concert is scheduled for Munich, Germany, today. TEENAGE STAR WOES? In just four years, Justin Bieber has gone from fielding innocuous questions about his haircut to denying that he’s in desperate need of rehab. Bieber’s grown up and into tabloid territory, with his recent troubles making some question whether he’s just the latest teen star gone wild. This week’s troubles come on the tails of a series of unfortunate events last week. In what could have been his worst week ever, the 19-year-old pop star struggled with his breathing and fainted backstage at a London show, was taken to a hospital and then was caught on camera clashing with a paparazzo. Days earlier, he was booed by his beloved fans when he showed up late to a concert. Those incidents come after photos of Bieber appearing to smoke marijuana hit the Web, and some headlines have suggested that the ultra-popular star is going through a famous Britney Spears-style meltdown. Others suggest he’s struggling with a more common condition: being a teenager. Donnie Wahlberg, who was just 14 when New Kids on the Block debuted on the music scene in the late 1980s to wild fan craze, said he remembers the pressure and hard times that came with being a teen celebrity. “Justin Bieber’s making mistakes that everyone makes and he’s probably trying things and exploring things that most kids his age explore, but the problem is he’s got 50 paparazzi chasing him around when he does it,” 43-yearold Wahlberg said. “When we are 19 and 20, we think we can take on the world and we do forget that there is a lot of life left to live in front of us, and hopefully he’ll get through these times and find his way into a long career and a healthy adulthood.” The pressure was evident in the days following his collapse backstage at the O2 Arena, as the Grammy-nominated singer wrote on Instagram that he’s sick of the “countless lies in the press” and that he would not be heading to rehab. “I’ve accomplished more than I could’ve ever dreamed of, i’m 19 and it must be scary to some people to think that this is just the beginning,” he wrote. “I’m a good person with a big heart. ... All this isn’t easy. I get angry sometimes. I’m human. I’m gonna make mistakes.” Even mistakes seem like new territory for Bieber: since breaking out at 15 he’s seen five of his albums hit No. 1 on Billboard’s 200 albums chart and nearly 20 songs crack the Top 40. He’s had several world tours, launched a massively successful 3-D movie about his life and made deals that include his own dolls, nail polish and fragrances. He’s got a social media presence that includes 52 million likes on Facebook and 36 million Twitter followers. But does that leave any time to be a kid? Nick Carter, considered the wildest of the Backstreet Boys, was also the group’s youngest member when they began to dominate the music charts in the 1990s, and he recalls the days when he grew mad as an overworked teen who yearned for a normal life. “I remember getting tired. I remember getting burned out and I’m like, ‘Let me relax’ and you have managers, and the record label... and then before you know it, the artist gets resentful and starts to revolt against them and that’s when you end up with a situation like what’s going on,” he said, referring to Bieber. “In a lot of ways you’re resentful and you’re missing out with your friends, your childhood, you see all of your high school friends growing up and you’re like, ‘Oh, I got to go back on tour.”’ Vincent Herbert, the record executive who signed Lady Gaga and also discovered the teen R&B boy band Mindless Behavior and singer JoJo at 12, said that young singers need role models around them who are fit, and that there must be “time for music and time to be kids.” “I think sometimes young artists get to that (frustrated) point because they’re young and it’s a lot and it gets overwhelming. I don’t think Justin Bieber is at that moment, I just think he had a bad week. That kid’s a phenomenal artist, he’s such a hardworking person, he’s such a good kid,” said Herbert. But he acknowledges that for
Bodyguards try to block the view of Canadian singer Justin Bieber as he goes through Wladyslaw Reymont Airport in Lodz. young artists, the pressure does sometimes lead to meltdowns: “No one’s a machine – we’re all human.” Spears became the poster child for that after she shaved her head and lost custody of her children, and more recently Demi Lovato checked into rehab because of an eating disorder and self-mutilation, though both have released successful music since. And many young members of Hollywood have been rebellious, used drugs and watched their careers falter, from Mackenzie Phillips to Corey Haim and Corey Feldman. Carter said his bad attitude began to affect his business, and young singers must think twice about their actions even when they’re at a breaking point. He says he’s now working to rework those lost relationships. “I probably messed up a particular movie I was going on an audition for because I showed up late and people looked at me like I was disrespecting them when really I was just out of my head,” he said. “I’ve been for years right now scrounging and clawing and proving through my work and staying away from alcohol and trying to be the best person I can be to make up for all the things I’ve done, and that’s been hard.” While Bieber, who was raised by a single mother in Canada, has held on to a pretty squeaky image, last year began to suggest some troubles: He vomited twice onstage during a concert in Glendale, Ariz., he was cited for speeding on a Los Angeles freeway and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s investigators questioned the singer after he reportedly scuffled with paparazzi who tried to photograph him and then-girlfriend Selena Gomez as they left a movie theatre. “What he’s going through ultimately is just the passage of adulthood and to go through that with this kind of scrutiny – it’s hard,” said Bill Werde, the editorial director of Billboard. “He’s going to have to decide if he wants that or not. He’s going to have to decide if he can handle the sort of bad that comes with the good.” Both Carter and Wahlberg are reluctant to give advice to Bieber simply because when they were in his position, they wouldn’t have listened. “The facts are that he’s going to do what he wants to do,” Carter said. “What happened to me when I was that age was the same thing – it’s power. Your parents are telling you, ‘Please don’t do this, please don’t do that’ and you’re looking at them going, ‘Who are you? I am me.”’
Herald staff with AP, Reuters
INDIE LOCAL MAGAZINE UN FAULDUO
Experimenting with comics
Are you a comic book buff? Then check out the little magazine Un Faulduo that is published in Buenos Aires. Un Faulduo is also the name of a group of artists that experiment with comics. They run a blog at http://www.unfaulduo.blogspot.com .ar/. The magazine released its first issue in 2005. It recently released issue number 9 edited by Nicolás Daniluk. The new issue includes the work of the four group members (Daniluk, Ezequiel García, Nicolás Moguilevsky and Nicolás Zukerfeld) and some guests, including Sergio Langer, Lucas Nine and Cecilia Guerra. The flavour of this magazine, which takes its name from a 19th century anarchist newspaper, is extremely experimental. Format, and editor, changes with each issue.
Herald staff
Classical music in San Isidro
The sixth edition of the classical music festival El Camino del Santo is already ongoing in the northern suburb of San Isidro, and offers a cornucopia of good music during the Easter holiday and beyond – for free! Programming includes six more concerts featuring music by Mozart, Schumann, Bruhns, Reincken, Erlebach, Bach, Brahms, Schumann and Schubert, among others. Today at 4pm, at the Museo Pueyrredón (Rivera Indarte 48), there will be a show for children with Stravinsky’s La historia del soldado, directed by Francisco Varela with actor Mariano Chiesa as narrator. At 9pm, at the Colegio San Juan el Precursor (Anchorena 419), baritone Víctor Torres will sing 17th and 18th century German music with a Baroque group. Tomorrow at 9pm, at the same venue, José Luis Juri (piano) and Geert Baeckelandt (clarinet) will play Brahms.
Herald staff
The cover of Un faulduo.
REUTERS
