These are photos of Justin Bieber at his Believe movie premiere in LA. He looks like a total tool in these photos with his manager, Scooter Braun, and mentor, Usher. The movie comes out on Christmas Day stateside, and I’m hoping that Biebs’ plummeting concert ticket prices are an indication of how well the film will do. Maybe Bieber will be forced into early retirement if you know what I mean. Poor little crying underdog might have to find another way to support his extravagant lifestyle.
Scooter Braun has let us all know how he’s worried about his golden goose. He’s admitted that he cannot control Bieber. Braun even says he stays awake every night just waiting for a phone call with bad news. Now Scooter has talked with Ryan Seacrest about how he’d really like Bieber to take a break. As if that would keep him out of trouble, right? That would only mean more time to pee in restaurant buckets. Scooter thinks the press has blown his client’s behavior completely out of proportion. Okay:
On Believe‘s conception: “We decided this movie, we did it independently, that we’d show the concert, we’re not really gonna make it into a big movie. Then over the last nine months Justin got into trouble sometimes, a few times. We started seeing this thing going on with the press, that over and over again they could get away with anything and there’s a point where you can’t respond to every single rumour so we just had to let it go.”
Believe will solve Bieber’s media problems: “We decided with this movie we’re just going to address it all at once. We had our director John Chu actually sit down with Justin, he did a three hour sit down interview with him where he asked him really hard questions. Questions like ‘people think you’re the next train wreck, how do you respond?’”
Believe compared to Bieber’s first movie, Never Say Never: “We’ve made a family movie in that the last one represented hope and this one we show how you respond to adversity and getting knocked down.”
Scooter wants Bieber to take time off: “I’m telling him after this movie, I want him to take next year off and just take a break. He can still live in the studio and work on the next album, which is what he wants to do, but I just want him to take some time to himself, so he can have that time alone cause he’s been working since he was 12 years old. He said, ‘losing my childhood, losing the time I have with my family and my friends is not worth it unless I give you the best I can be.’ He wants to go for it because what he’s given up already, he can’t justify losing all that unless he gets to the top. And that’s why he works as hard as hard as he does.”
On Bieber’s future as an artist: “He needs to decide where he goes from here, he has all the tools. He’s fighting with really wanting to be normal but then also the response is that he’s not allowed to be normal.”
[From RyanSeacrest.com]
I don’t see how Scooter thinks the press is trying to “get away with everything” when they are simply reporting the facts. Pee-gate really happened. Bieber did in fact stumble out of a brothel in Brazil. And so on. If Bieber was truly fighting to be “normal,” then he’d behave like a human being. At least Scooter is in favor of Bieber taking a break, but that won’t help Justin get his act together.
Bieber’s mom, Patti Mallette, showed up to support her son at the premiere. Is that a bandage dress?
Photos courtesy of WENN
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