Justin Bieber et al.

A quick Google search revealed that it's probably fake. However, that article includes some noteworthy real quotes.

I don't hate him. I know next to nothing about him except that someone threw a water bottle at him at a concert or something. And I have never heard his music, so I can't say that I hate it.

But the reason why people like me are so . . . offended, I guess? . . . by his music is because mainstream music, and especially pop music, does not exemplify what music means to us. Most mainstream music is written by committee. The producer's job is to try to make it sound like something you've already heard so that it will sooth you with its familiarity.

People like me require a new artist or new song to be doing something unique. It needs to have something new going on. Pop stars by definition are attempting to appeal to the populous. They are not risk takers in the music industry. Their music is written for them like a mathematical formula to appeal to the most amount of people, and in so doing loses any soul it may have ever at any point had.

Too many cooks in the kitchen, and all that.

It's not Bieber's fault. He's too young to understand what's actually going on. All he knew is that he wanted to be famous and now he is.

And that's a huge part of the problem with the music industry these days: it's built on people who want to be famous. The household names by and large have very little interest in music itself, they just want the fame and the money.

You might ask: who are we to judge them? If fame is their true route to happiness, why should we condemn them for it?

Because the music they are making is counterfeit. And music, and the arts in general, should strive to be more than a money-making-game.

So the anger and hatred that you hear towards him and Lady Gaga (and Britney and Backstreet Boys, and New Kids on the Block, and even as far back as the Monkees) is because people are angry not really at those people in the groups, but at what they see as a deterioration of music as an art form. They see the masses suckling the teats of pop and mainstream music and look at that with such disgust in the same way one would to see a morbidly obese person eating plate after plate of french fries. There's no substance there, and they are just making themselves fatter.

tl;dr: we don't hate the playa, we hate the game.

Bastian is right.

Also Justin Bieber seems like a huge faggot.