The way people are talking about Justin Bieber‘s newly minted No. 1 album, Believe — and the transition into adulthood it’s meant to represent for the young star — you’d think that he were being prepped for a monarch’s throne or the Dalai Lama’s robes, not a long career in pop. From the gossip to the notable amount of critical kudos he’s receiving this round, the Bieber chatter right now reveals an intense concern about whether this Superboy, granted his powers by pubescent girls, can fly with the big boys.
The relentless tabloid speculation about whether Bieber has experienced certain adult pleasures has culminated in a GQ profile in which the author, Drew Magary, manically attempts to get the not-yet-U.S.-legal Bieber to drink beer (preferably in a strip club). More thoughtful critical assessments still assume that what this YouTube prodigy really wants and needs is to make adult music that establishes him as the equal to his mentor, the now firmly lascivious and artistic former teen star Usher, as well as the two other former 16 magazine pinups who managed to escape the clutches of bobby soxer love: Justin Timberlake and Michael Jackson.
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