I just mentioned yesterday that the more I cover Jon Bon Jovi the more awesome he seems and today is no exception. Bon Jovi and his band (sans Richie Sambora, whom he says is welcome to return anytime) are currently on tour in Europe and he’s been doing some very candid interviews. In his interview with The Mirror we covered yesterday, Bon Jovi spoke openly about his daughter’s overdose on heroin last fall, saying he hoped she was done with drugs and that the incident was his “worst moment as a father.” In this latest interview, with The London Standard, Bon Jovi was asked about Justin Bieber’s nearly two hour concert delay the last time he performed in that city. He didn’t mince words and he very clearly called Bieber out for being an unprofessional douche:
Jon Bon Jovi has branded Justin Bieber an “a**hole” for emerging on stage two hours late for a concert at the O2 arena.
The 51-year-old rock singer, who has a reputation as one of the hardest-working men in music, claimed the teenage star risks alienating his fans if he continues to disappoint.
Bieber later blamed “technical issues” and claimed he was only 40 minutes late for the show in March.
Jon, speaking to the Standard in Vienna on the latest leg of the band’s Because We Can world tour, said: “Every generation has guys that do that, none of that is new.
“They run the risk of disrespecting their audience members who have worked hard to pay for their ticket, to give you the permission to take two or three hours of their lives — or in that kid’s case, 80 minutes of their lives.
“Do it once, you can be forgiven. Do it enough times and shame on you. They won’t have you back. Then it just becomes a cliché. It’s really not cool — you’re an a**hole. Go to f***in’ work!”
[From Standard.co.uk via Radar Online]
Cue Justin Bieber Twitter meltdown. To his credit he hasn’t said anything online yet, just some Twitter statements about how he’s focused and knows who he is or something. He’s been doing charity work and is working with ConAgra Foods to bring food and awareness to food banks. On Friday he visited a Las Vegas, NV elementary school as part of the program. So maybe he’s trying to change, maybe he’ll pull it together and be a fraction of the professional that Bon Jovi is, but the kid is only 19 and has a huge head. He needs to learn some humility and get to work, just like Bon Jovi is saying.
Did you hear that Bieber got booed at the Billboard Awards? He received the first-ever Milestone Award, and he spent his speech defending himself, saying things like “This is not a gimmick. I’m an artist and I should be taken seriously and all this other bull should not be spoken of.” The crowd was booing and counter-cheering throughout it all. The Bieber backlash has only just begun.
Bon Jovi is shown in late 2012 and early 2013. Photos of Bieber are from this month. Photo credit: WENN.com and Instagram
God I love that man. *swoon*
…and love the shade on douche boy!
That too! The reason his career has lasted is exactly what he stated. Respect and hard work. If douche boy keeps up the crap and whining and “ME ME ME” he won’t be around much longer, not to mention 30+ years ala John.
Amen to that!
Shouldn’t Justin’s parents be saying this to him? My husbands bestie is a Pro-NFL’er and I am amazed at how many “Yes” men surround him on a daily basis. Probably encourages his ego, but would be severely detrimental for a child star.
That is the difference in a man and a boy, a man takes his work seriously a boy just talks about it.
Beiber can discount his fans but now he has REAL, solid, proven musicians calling him out, what’s he going to say about that?
Yes. Somewhere baby is throwing his rattle.
Applause for Jon Bon Jovi.
🙂 yes exactly!
@JL: Well said!
Bringo- I was gonna say the same thing but with a parallel of the generation differences. Todays “kids” are already getting canes waved at them by the previous generations (even my own generation looks down on them already lol) and I think its well deserved, too. Values, people! They never go out of style.
1000+
If the Milestone Award is for showing an incredible amount of bitchassness to the masses, then he definitely deserves it.
LOL at b!tch@$$ness since that should seriously be Beiber’s middle name.
ROFL! Yeah, he deserves it and then some. I was watching the show and laughed my ass off when he got booed. He may think he’s god’s gift but thankfully there are people out there like Bon Jovi who aren’t afraid to call him out for his immature crap.
Last year on a train from DC to New York I spent 2 hours trying to pluck the courage to ask for Bon Jovi’s autograph for my mum, I just felt like I couldn’t disturb him in every day life but my fiancé did it for me (my mum was close to disowning me via text for the UK lol)
He was so gracious and lovely, I have nothing but respect for the dude!
He is bang on about the mini douche
I usually like to dismiss JBJ as a poor man’s Bono, but well done, sir.
*stands and applauds*
Are you serious? Heresy! (I’m from NJ. JBJ and Springsteen are god.)
Sorry. Too many years working in Irish bars in Manhattan. JBJ loses points for not thinking he might be God.
Lol I’m from Philly and I can co sign
Hell yes Bruce Springsteen is god!
@Beatriz – HELL YEAH! 🙂
Bon Jovi has been in the business for how much time??
They started in the ’80s and even if now he is not as huge as they used to be, their concerts are still sould out. So he has seen very close what happens to poptart à la Bieber.
If Biebs still have a grain of sault in his mind (I doubt) better take the advice.
And now we can start the countdown to the Bieb’s hissy fit.
That guy works constantly. Saw a documentary that followed him around on tour (I think it was a year or so ago?) and I was exhausted at the end, just watching it LOL. He really is driven, and I can never begrudge success to someone who works that hard, and it really was clear to me that he loves his fans, too.
Bon Jovi are working off their butts when on tour. Say, about 12 years ago, during their Munich open air concert, the floodgates of heaven opened. Nobody could have blamed them if they had cut their set short, but they played their full program of more than 2 1/2 hours.
Now imagine Bieber outdoors, in the pouring rain.
JBJ has stated his full awareness and responsibilities as a businessman and employer of many, let alone to the ancillary businesses, parents, and fans.
On the other hand, the child has demonstrated a disinterest in adult thinking and behavior.
I remember the “old bands” in the 80’s and 90’s and their tours and concerts and the trashed hotel rooms. I don’t remember waiting for hours or an unexpected last minute canceling or calling your fans names.
Now if someone is discipnined enough to manage a tour without a glitch he/she is praised as the second comming for doing the job and delivering what people paid for.
Except Axl Rose.
Yeah, Axl is a putz. The one time I saw GnR he left the stage for a 15 minute sulk because someone allegedly threw a can at him. I was close enough to the stage to call BS – never saw anything. I can’t stand that guy – but I was AMAZED at how much range his voice had. Really beautiful voice stuck inside an arsehole.
Oh, yes, he is one of a kind.
I like Gun’s music but my all time fav. are Iron Maiden and Alice Cooper.
But the best fan-obliging thing I’ve witnessed was with Metallica. They came early! and gave autographs for about an hour!!Before the concert!
OMG.
Saw GN’R and Metallica in 1992 at RFK stadium…Axl refused to come out until 2 AM and the fans started throwing garbage at the stage. I was 13 at the time so I thought it was cool, but yeah. Axl is NOTORIOUS for that.
Ok, guys it’s 19.40h where I am and seeing this Metal meeting my heart melts and I’ll go for a small Scotch now!
If I knew The Biebs related posts were so much fun I’d read them more often!
Axl Rose is basically the Chris Brown of the 80s.
And that’s why Bon Jovi still rocks. You don’t stay in business 20+ years without a good head on your shoulders and a proper work ethic. JBJ quoted as saying “you’re an *&^** go to work” in reference to Bieber is just all sort of awesome.
Note the second diss: Bieber only does an 80-minute show compared to Bon Jovi’s 2-3 hours. Take that!!!
The contempt for Bieber is gaining speed. He’ll be a has-been in 3 years. Has anyone else been booed at an Awards show?
I LOVE people with credibility and talent who call out these wanna-be’s. Respect.
Bon jovi gets better with age, doesn’t he.
baby beebs will be doing concerts at 5o, but I think it will be like the boy band resurgence that is currently driving women of a certain age insane. When todays 10 yr olds have 10 yr olds… I just wish we could gloss over him in the interm
Have we discussed Tay-Tay sticking her tongue out at Biebs and Selena backstage?
Ha! That was amazing. Actually made me like Swifty a little bit!
Not only that, but later on during a press conference or something, they asked her how she felt about his award and she said something like “next question please.” Kinda love her a little bit for the Bieber shade!
Didn’t Selena once say that Swifty was one of her closest friends and the girl she called when she had boy issues? I knew it, Swifty is an effing mean girl.
If you have to TELL people that you’re an artist (on stage at an awards show, no less) and that you should be taken seriously…well, the opposite is usually true.
like that annoying Olivia Munn person telling people that she’s “pretty, smart and funny”.
If you are truly those things, people will acknowledge it on their own.
and JBJ is even HOTTER in person. Hubba hubba!
I agree!
As my dad always says: “Self-praise is no recommendation.”
hah, well put! 😀
I totally agree 🙂
Ahahahaha… you nailed it. And I’ve only seen Olivia Munn in two things – Magic Mike and The Newsroom – and she’s neither pretty nor funny.
I love Jon. And Bon Jovi rocks. I love that he can make these statements because he’s pretty much “royalty” in the music business and a total professional who’s been around the block a few times, and really knows what he’s talking about. Bieber should be humble and learn from this, but he won’t.
There’s an awesome Gif of Miley presenting him the award. She’s shrugs and rolls her eyes when she announces that he’s the winner. Love it!
I was actually watching the awards show when that happened (I get bored and start flipping channels), and had to rewind (God bless DVR) to rewatch it to make sure I saw it. That was hilarious.
Ugh. That picture of Beiber and Fist Brown made me dry-heave. Why did Brown not get booed too?
This is amazing. This is why he’s been a star for so long.
I think he threw some shade on set length too, 2 or 3 hours, except in this kids case 80 minutes. Beibs apparently can’t make it to 2 hours
Yes! I noticed that too! Again, he’s totally right.
While I agree with him about keeping people waiting, maybe if he worked a little less while his daughter was growing up, she wouldn’t be a drug addict.
Many parents with 9-5 job do have aduct children at home. Other artists who also tour- don’t. I think it’s more the specific attention kids get rather than the “physical presence” that’s important.
Yup.
I disagree with Katie. I’ve met JBJ and Dorthea, and Jon might have been out on the road a lot and not always physically present, but he has always put his family first. Dorthea has put being a mom first and rock star’s wife second.
I’ve also met all of the Bongiovi kids and they were all very polite and seemed down-to-earth. I believe their oldest son, who’s an athlete, is off to Notre Dame next Fall. The last time that I saw Stephanie was during her first semester at college. She seemed very together and level-headed. I was very surprised when I heard about her OD, and that it was heroin.
Hamilton College is well known for being a school full of entitled kids (with a few exceptions), as well as being a campus that has a huge drug problem. My guess would be that too much free time and access to drugs and money allows the problem to continue.
You can’t blame a parent for a child getting involved in drugs. While part of a parent’s job is to educate their kids, you can preach all you want about how drugs are bad for you, but if a person is going to do drugs, they are going to do it. I don’t think there was anything the Bongiovi’s could have done. That being said, they reacted quickly once they found out about the problem by getting her into rehab and we’ll just have to see what happens. It can’t be easy growing up in a household and having a celebrity as a father, especially one as well-known as JBJ. Can you imagine what comes with that? I can’t.
come on…you can’t blame him for that.
White Oprah never worked a day in her life (“Manager”?) and yet her daughter is one of the biggest addicts around.
I don’t think there’s really a correlation there.
I don’t think this is a fair assessment. I know a few really good families where one of the parents stayed home and one of the parents worked and regardless both parents were hands on and still one of their kids got hooked on drugs.
I think it would be more accurate to say a lot kids want to experiment when they’re younger and don’t realize how deep they’re getting.
Right, because only working parents have drug addicted kids. Sheesh. Educate yourself.
Addiction is a bona fide disease. There is no “formula” that determines it’s nature. Yes, a bad childhood/absentee parents CAN be a factor in it for SOME people, but it’s never a generalization. One thing does not implicate the other necessarily. If that was true, everyone I knew with absent parents would be addicts (so almost all my friends XD).
And finally, you don’t know JBJ. Yes he tours a lot, but that does not mean he was never there for his kids.
I didn’t think I could love JBJ any more than I have for the past 30 years, but he just continues to get better with age. I’m glad someone finally put that little punk in his place, and am thrilled it was JBJ who did it!
The audience’s reaction to Bieber at the Billboard Awards was priceless! It showed just how out of touch he is with th real world. I forget who it was who said this, but if he really was an artist and his music was taken seriously, then he wouldn’t have had to defend it/himself in the way that he did. I hope this is a sign that his 15 minutes are almost up. The last thing I want to hear anything more about is another entitled celebrity.
I have loved JBJ since I was five. He just keeps getting better and better!!
Justin Bieber is the epitome of arrogance.
I enjoyed watching him squirm and resort to thanking Jesus Christ (while wearing his over-sized shades) in order to stop the relentless booing.
Also, JBJ on “30 Rock” was wonderful. He is bang on target here: that kid gets paid too much to do it wrong. However, I have wanted to say this before, as gross as Bieber’s behavior is, I’m afraid that it is the behavior of 70% of 19-year-olds I’ve known. (Heaven help us all if my son had had that kind of money and stuff at that age.) Usually they grow out of it. Who knows if it will happen here, surrounded by enablers as Bieber is.
“Don’t sign anything you haven’t read. I did that, and I ended up as NBC’s artist in residence.” LOL. He was great on that show.
Hahaha, yes!
I read this earlier.. Jon Bon Jovi knows something about an enduring career. The only thing i’ve ever heard about Jon was his daughter last year. He’s a good guy & knows what he’s talking about. Justin is headed for serious trouble if someone doesn’t step in.
JBJ sounds like the new 69.
I love the diss about an 80-minute show. Lol. And it’s mostly lip-synced anyway and all auto-tuned with his limited same ol dance moves. And the audience is mostly 11 to 15-year-old girls. Poor Biebs, no matter how hip hop he tries to look, he will never get guys to his concerts, which is what is killing him, no real music cred. But it’s Billboard’s fault for giving him at 19, with such a generic, basic pop catalogue of music, such an award, not Bieb’s fault.
Bon Jovi does two-hour concerts live, real music. Depeche Mode just went on tour and at 51 Dave is still shirtless and hot tearing it up for 2 hours and 20 minutes the other night to 40,000 fans, men and women. These bands have real music and are still putting out music to tour in support of.
Biebs will turn into a greatest hits act when he’s older having to tour in a package tour with other boy bands to the same Tweens who are just older. Lol.
All these “baby stars ” think that their fans will never grow up, that the money coming in will never dry up and that they can disrespect their fans and keep them.
They also seem to think there is never another them waiting in the wings to grab the spotlight.
I hope all those cars and houses are paid off because he is going to be the next broke a** star who lost all his money and bling bling.
I know Bieber’s only 19, but he should remember that it’s one thing to piss off adults but it is something entirely different to piss off kids. When you piss off adults, they don’t buy tickets again and maybe they tell their friends. But when you piss off kids, you piss off their parents, and that earns you a special place in the parents-hate-you club.
LOVE this guy for speaking the truth. I wish more TRUE musicians would speak about all these unprofessional douche nozzles like Bieber, Rhianna, Brown, etc.
Oh. And that photo of Bieber and Brown?
DOUCHE 1 and DOUCHE 2
Papa Jon started in his garage & his band has been at this shiz 3+ decades, so me thinks he knows a lil’ bit about what the f*ck he’s talkin about.
and as only Jon could say:
“I’VE SEEN A MILLION FACES, AND I’VE R-O-C-K-E-D THEM ALL!!!”
You might enjoy a short article that Duff (from GnR) wrote about a conversation with his current band, in which they tried to calculate if JBJ really had “rocked a million faces”. Good stuff. 🙂 http://www.seattleweekly.com/music/duffmckagan/916260-129/duffmckagan
I can’t even look at the way Justin Bieber dresses. makes me ill he looks so ridiculous. I have 15 year old son who thinks he looks pathetic as well. Blegh.
ITA… I’ve got nothing but respect for JBJ and his work ethic, professionalism and candor. He ROCKS, literally and figuratively.
As for Beiber… the critics and industry players won’t consider him for actual awards, so they make shit up (like the first-ever Milestone Award) so he can get the PR. His music is the same ghost-written, over-produced, unmemorable pablum that dominates the pop airwaves. *sigh*
My douche-o-meter broke when I saw the picture of Biebs and Breezy…
😆 😆 😆
Where’s the “LIKE” button when I need one? 🙂
I thought I couldn’t love JBJ more but I was wrong.
Bon Jovi put on an amazing concert. I went 2 years ago and it was one of the best I’ve been too. They went hard for 2+ hours and just rocked the stadium. AC/DC were the same way when they toured 2 or 3 years ago. They didn’t even stop when it started to rain (it was in an open stadium). Lil’ b!tch Bieber wouldn’t know the first clue about being a true artist, showman or general decent human
Jon Bon Jovi is an asshole
Gorgeous, talented and smart…Bon Jovi is perfection! That little twit Bieber doesn’t hold a candle to him!
It’s hard to take someone seriously when he walks around wearing diaper pants all the time.
LOVE Jon Bon Jovi. Always have, and love him even more for this.
That is all.
Richie Sambora: “Jon Bon Jovi needs to stop trash-talking!” Did Bon Jovi offer a 50% rebate to ticket holders when Sambora left the tour? No! Bon Jovi replaced Richie with Phil X. Who the hell is Phil X? The ticket holders that expected to see Richie Sambora perform got screwed again! Not like it’s the first time, seems to be a reoccurring problem. So, Justin Bieber was late eh? I hope that takes some of the heat off you and your makeshift travelling band. Take the money and run, Jon!
Come on Jon, do you know how long it takes to get Biebs in and out of his car seat? Of course he was late!
But seriously, good for him for calling him out – there’s no excuse for repeatedly standing up your audience. Especially if you’d like to keep having a career!