Why Justin Bieber Was Booed At The Billboard Awards (Video)

Pop singer Justin Bieber received a lesson yesterday in how fickle the music industry can be when he was loudly booed at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, after being presented with the Milestone Award. The diminutive 19-year-old star stated, "I'm an artist and I should be taken seriously." The irony is, had Bieber not been a teen pop star, with his musical abilities, such as playing guitar and the drums, critics would take him more seriously for his artistry.

However, traditionally, with the way the music history and the industry has worked, teen pop stars, including boybands, are rarely commended for artistry and usually have a short career span. The New Kids On The Block were a big teen pop sensation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, selling even more records that Bieber has today, but their fame ended overnight, due to their demographic moving on to the next trend.

For a teen pop star to enter adulthood with a successful career embraced by the public and critics alike, it takes a really savvy manager with an understanding of music history (it rarely happens). Certain career moves must be avoided, thinking of the long run as opposed to short term gains.

Justin Bieber Tried To Go Down Stairs Butt First As Scandal Brews

 

18-year-old pop star, Justin Bieber, decided to go down a flight of stairs butt first, during a concert performance in his native Canada, featuring cougar, Carly Rae Jepsen, whom he has a thing for and has gotten close to, in spite of having a girlfriend, Selena Gomez (that little pimp). However, Bieber's slide down the stairs booty first, was accidental, as he rushed towards the main stage.

In the meantime, a scandal has been brewing regarding Bieber's handlers, manager Scooter Braun and mentor, singer Usher Raymond. They are being accused of gouging Bieber's fans with inflated, rip-off ticket prices. Allegations have also been made that they are scalping their own tickets, which is illegal. Parents of Bieber's fans are paying the price for this dishonesty.

   

Justin Bieber

Braun and Usher have also been engaging in criminal copyright infringement, copyright infringement, money laundering, IRS fraud, bank fraud, corporate fraud and corporate theft, via illegally accessing protected data for unauthorized use, in their dealings regarding the pop star's career and others in their stable. Songwriters and producers have openly complained in the industry of Bieber's team stealing their music or buying it and giving the teen singer writer's credit for their preexisting works.

Despite his 27,000,000 "followers" on Twitter, with half the number said to be comprised of users that are not real, Bieber has been experiencing noticeable sales decline. If Bieber truly had 28,000,000 followers, his sales would be in the tens of millions per CD and single released. However, it is no so. To compensate for this fact, journalists have been writing that Bieber's team orchestrated the alleged laptop theft for publicity, to drum up sales interest in the singer. Thus far it has not worked, as sales are still down.

Justin Bieber and Usher

Recently, music manager and television personality, Sharon Osbourne, stated she likes Bieber, but does not think his career will last. Sadly, due to the corrupt, greedy team he has around him, his career is already fading fast. An artist should be careful about assuming they will have longevity.

As a musicologist, I've seen many artists come and go. The most striking of all the teen star collapses had to be the New Kids On The Block, who at the height of their teen fan driven fame went from selling 20,000,000 copies of one CD (far more than Bieber) to total music flop in one month, with the release of a failed follow up.

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Will Justin Bieber Successfully Make The Transition Into Musical Adulthood

Or Will He Become Another One Hit Wonder Child Star

Justin Bieber and manager Scooter Braun

Will 17-year-old pop singer, Justin Bieber, become a successful solo singer as an adult or end up as another child star, fallen to the wayside, due to the pitfalls of fame in Hollywood. In looking over music history, it is not hard to fathom that things could go wrong for Bieber, if he is not given the proper personal advice and career guidance.

Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers

Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, were a briefly successful teen singing group in the 1960s. They became famous with the song "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" but things went wrong shortly after their debut album. Sexually active from a very early age, Lymon got into the habit of engaging in reckless affairs with older women.

He simply grew up too fast, as many child stars do, because the adults around them refuse to tell them the word "no." They are in an adult environment and believe they are to do grown up things before their time. At one point, Lymon was reportedly married to three different women, which later led to trouble in a copyright lawsuit, regarding his estate. Lymon, who once earned thousands per week, died penniless, falling victim to a heroin overdose that claimed his life.

Michel Jackson and the Jackson 5

Michael Jackson is without a doubt, the most successful former child star of all time. Jackson received his musical start in his family's group, the Jackson Five, where he became a superstar at a very early age. Jackson went on to have a very successful solo career as an adult, but childhood issues plagued his life.

As a result, at times he was emotionally stunted and let people into his circle that brought him down. Jackson also developed a serious drug problem, which resulted in his early death at the age of 49, under the care of a doctor that was aiding him in unlawfully abusing pharmaceutical drugs.

New Edition

The Boston band of R&B singers, New Edition, were one of the most successful African-American teen groups in music history. Their brand of clean R&B crossed over to the pop charts and made them household names very early in their careers.

The group more or less survived being child stars without terrible issues, but former member Bobby Brown, the ex-husband of Whitney Houston, was the exception. He was kicked out of the group and while he did go on to some solo success with the album "Don't Be Cruel" Brown had massive problems with drinking, drugs and the law, facing arrest several times and bankruptcy.

New Kids On The Block

Boston quintet, the New Kids On The Block, launched as manager Maurice Starr's answer to his former group, New Edition, became very famous quite fast. Their audience was largely comprised of screaming underage girls, which as time has repeatedly shown, is a very fickle genre.

New Kids On The Block sold millions of CDs, but overnight their fame disappeared with the release of their ironically titled 1994 album "Face The Music." The members became depressed and some fell into drug use. They've since mounted a comeback in recent years, but it was nothing like the success they experienced during their hay day.

Backstreet Boys

The Backstreet Boys were the late 1990s answer to the New Kids On The Block. The Florida "boy band" became very successful, once again, due to screaming teenage girls, but the fame disappeared almost as quickly as it arrived, due to the fickleness of said genre.

Members of the Backstreet Boys experienced drug problems and depression. They were managed by pedophile, Lou Pearlman, who is said to have proposition group members Nick Carter and AJ McClean. Pearlman is now doing a 15-year stretch in prison for a ponzi scheme that defrauded many out of millions of dollars.

Hi-Five

Hi-Five were a successful R&B group from Texas, who had several hit singles in the 1990s, some of which crossed over onto the pop charts. After two successful albums, the group's sales declined. What was worse is the personal troubles that beset them.

The lead singer, Tony Thompson, died of an overdose, after inhaling freon to get high (also called "huffing"). Group member Roderick Clark was paralyzed in a car accident. Another member, Treston Irby, was shot five times at a club.

B2K

In 2001, teen R&B group, B2K, burst onto the music scene with their debut album that made them young singing sensations. Not long after, the group disbanded under acrimonious circumstances. It later emerged, members of the group were being molested as young boys by their producer Chris Stokes and struggling with deep emotional problems as a result.

Usher

So, as you can see, a lot can go wrong for young entertainers. Some have not survived their fame, in tragic incidents that destroyed their lives. Bieber is being mentored by former child star, Usher, who's had a number of issues of his own. The Judiciary Report knows of behind the scenes industry incidents, where he has personally led young Bieber astray. The question is, will he end up being this young man's undoing.

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Will Justin Bieber's Audience Outgrow Him

Music History Has Shown It Happened To Many Teen Stars

Justin Bieber

As 17-year-old pop singer, Justin Bieber and much of his audience rapidly approach adulthood, will his listeners outgrow him. Teen acts often suffer due to this disadvantage. It has happened to others in his genre, as past sales records have shown.

Former teen music groups, such as the New Kids On The Block and the Backstreet Boys, were very famous one minute, then sliding down the charts into obscurity the next, unable to shift the amount of records they once did. For some, all it took to reach that decline was the release of one album in the space of one month. Will Bieber meet the same musical fate.

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Justin Bieber's Mom Suing Mad

Justin Bieber

The mother of pop star, Justin Bieber, has retained an attorney to represent her interests in her son's booming career. It is being said she feels cut out of decisions being made, which is typical of many major record labels. I've seen quite a few young artists come and go, unable to navigate the treacherous waters of fame and finance.

Bieber's manager is signing far too many deals, overexposing the young singer and exposing him to public ridicule, as he has a line of merchandising certain to send him down the path the New Kids On The Block went in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They are going to make him a mockery at the rate they are proceeding, slapping the boy's name on everything from sheets to nail polish. Do remember, he is a young man.

Furthermore, it is not that the lad has no talent, as he can sing and dance. But when businesspeople begin exploiting entertainers, especially young ones, it always leads to trouble and heartbreak.

Justin Bieber with parents Pattie Mallette and Jeremy Bieber

Fame maybe fun at first, but when people are being overworked and taken advantage of for social and financial gain, with no safeguards in place to protect them, it can become destructive. This is something most entertainers are not mentally, emotionally or physically prepared for in any manner.