It’s been a blissful week or two without much Justin Bieber news, hasn’t it? Some (completely made-up) rumors circulated about a possible Selena Gomez pregnancy, but that wasn’t worth covering. Bieber’s been trying to lay low after his whiny deposition tapes made him feel like a victim. He’s still in the midst of his DUI and egging cases, and I suspect Scooter Braun told him to make himself scarce. That didn’t stop him from taking to Instagram with a selfie-comparison to James Dean. Anyone can pose in a white t-shirt with a dangling cigarette, but Bieber captioned, “This is James Dean inspired. Don’t ask me if I smoke ciggys cuz I don’t.” I’ll let that sink in for a moment.
How did that Tom Petty song lyric go? “A rebel without a clue…” This is even more ridiculous as the time Bieber compared himself to Michael Jackson. Here are a few more Bieber updates:
* Justin’s latest defense to DUI charge comes straight from TMZ. Bieber told cops he couldn’t walk in a straight line because he had a hairline fracture on his foot from skateboarding. He also gave them an attitude about his massive wealth and told the cop, “I bet you didn’t have millions of dollars in your bank account [when you were 19].” How mature and swaggy.
* Bieber has a new mile-high tattoo that reads, “Forgive.” You can see a photo here. I’m not sure whether the new body art symbolizes Selena Gomez taking him back or whether he’s begging the public for forgiveness. I suspect the latter, which is funny because Swaggy has insisted he’s “not sorry” at all for his antics. The tattoo artist (Bang Bang) says Bieber told him, “Forgiveness is powerful, forgive as Jesus died on the cross to forgive our sins.” Bieber also has a giant cross on his chest in the same photo. Is the cross new? I don’t remember seeing that tattoo until now.
Photos courtesy of Justin Bieber on Instagram, Fame/Flynet & WENN
I’m willing to bet he actually believes (beliebs) this, and his toadies probably told him it was true too.
How about no?
Also, another classic case of people taking an icon out of context and not reading into their story at all.
James Dean looks like an adult, for one thing, while JB looks like the dopey little twerp he is.
James Dean was beautiful, talented and special. Justin Bieber is an insufferable, entitled, disrespectful overgrown toddler. How dare he compare himself to Dean. I’ve disliked Bieber for some time now but this is the last straw. I’m so beyond done with this scumbag little twit.
More like “douche without a clue”.
He is so ridiculous..
I dunno if others have this problem, but I can’t walk a straight line sober so I would be screwed if I was ever pulled over for a DUI, automatic fail, I walk towards my right.
I have a serious fear of that, too. I have terrible balance and I’m sure they would think I was drunk or on drugs if they made me try to walk a straight line. No really, Officer, I’m just a klutz!
I was in the car with a friend and we got stopped at a DUI checkpoint. They had us both get out and do a sobriety test (in case she was to drunk then i could drive the car home-FYI we were both sober, but they were stopping everyone who had had a drink that night)
I am very large busted and was in heels. They let me take off my heels and hold my boobs down so i could see the line they wanted me to walk. we all (including the cops) had a huge laugh over it.
I am the same way. I always figured my severe lack of coordination is one of my ADHD symptoms so it hasnt worried me until now. I dont think a traffic cop will buy my ADHD theory so I better get it checked out.
He is aware of how James Dean’s story ends right?
He probably thinks James Dean was a boyfriend of Anne Frank
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Lmao. That is amazing!
Hahahaha probably!
Right?! I’m like dude, James Dean died at 24 in kind of a horrible car accident. You sure you don’t want to rethink that comparison?
Probably about as aware as Lindsay Lohan is of how Marilyn Monroe’s story ended but it didn’t stop her trying to create some comparison.
I think the celebrats think that hitching likenesses to legitimately tragic stars acts as an excuse for their basically sh*tty behaviour.
‘I’m not a turd! I’m tragic, idiot!’
just-teen, i belieb U iz just a cracked attic!
i don’t nid uR forgiebness, just go aweigh!
Amazing that Dean was only four years older than Bieber when he died. What happened to the calibre of our celebrities?
Good question. I think as a society we’ve changed, (mutated?) and our current “celebrities” reflect that. Sad, really.
Agreed
We tend to throw the label of ‘star’ or ‘celebrity’ around way too easily now. Any idiot with a ‘reality’ show is a celebrity. They are showered with the same fame and fortune as are those who are truly talented and worthy of the title. We have too many people famous for being nothing really. And as far as those who are really entertainers, the bar has been set too low for them. It’s all about shock, headlines and flash that doesn’t need to exist if the person has talent. Bieber is someone who should already be on the ‘where are they now?’ list.
If James Dean lived now we would mock him as much as we mock our celebrities. The celebrities in the past did stupid and distasteful things but culture and nostalgia change things.
Media saturation. Some of them were just as messed up back then as their modern counterparts, but the public just didn’t know about it. There weren’t things like blogs and constant 24/7 media coverage of celebrities. Some of it leaked out but it was a trickle and “rumors” as opposed to the constant onslaught of every little thing these people say and do.
I will agree that the talent level seems to have dropped overall though, with people becoming famous for reality TV and crap like that.
Oh excellent point.
In the film and television industry the talent pool has become too diluted.
Movie stars used to be larger than life. Many would even perform their own stunts.
Now, even with decades of previous works to build from, great actors, writers and directors are spread too thin.
On television some critically acclaimed gems are quickly cancelled due to low ratings while inferior programming thrives.
Tippy, old Hollywood was all smoke and mirrors. We look back at it through a nostalgic lens and see these stars as transcendent amd larger than life. Hollywood stars were studio commodities and studio execs worked extremely hard on their stars PR. James Dean was talented but he was messed up in his own way. Today’s celebrities don’t have that mystique but at least we have a somewhat more real picture of them. Also there’s some excellent quality TV at the moment such as Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Justified, Sons of Anarchy, Sherlock etc.
Actors now days also sometimes perform their own stunts. But stunts have changed. there is a lot more action in today’s movies and it would be much more difficult for an actor to do it all.
How long has it taken him to come up with this new excuse? It didn’t stop him exercising in the cell. I didn’t think he could disgust me anymore yet he has. James Dean would be rolling in his grave.
The downfall will be epic.
And it can’t get here soon enough.
Unfortunately, this downfall is going to end in the morgue.
I hope not :(…I just want to see the little brat taken down a peg or two.
I’m sorry, but is this kid ever going to hit puberty? He looks nothing like James Dean because Dean was a MAN and looked it. Also the attractiveness quotient is out of whack in this comparison. Smh.
we all know how it ended.I will sit back and wait for this one….
Is his forehead in permanent wrinkle mode now? He also looks totally out of it in this picture. There is NO likeness between the two. As far as the broken foot – please – how does he know it was broken? He would have to of had xrays to prove that it was and so he just gave the police a way to disprove it.
Why does his head look so small, compared to his shoulders and arms?
Pinhead?
20 years old but Bieber still has Similac on his breath. How can this twerp do push ups in his cell with a hairline fracture on his ankle? He needs to go somewhere and sit down, or better yet, go away.
Okay, I’ve tried to ignore him for a very long time now. But this lil bitch has just gone too far. Don’t sully James Dean with the stench of your stupidity, immaturity and mediocrity!
The last thing that Bieber wants is to be ignored.
By being self-aggrandizing and provocative he gains exposure and notoriety, but suffers no consequence.
Bieber still has approximately 50 million Twitter followers and recieves the type of worldwide adulation that is typically reserved for the highest echelon in the music industry.
Aw, you went and quoted Tom Petty! <3 This IS my favorite site, it IS. <3
I read the little tattoo story and all I can think of is, “FOR WHY????” Why in the world would you want to get a tattoo in a freaking plane? In turbulence? That sounds like a recipe for smudged ink and regret.
“Recipe for smudged ink and regret.” LOL, well put.
I still think Beiber sometimes looks pretty in pics (certainly not what he’s going for). Too bad he’s so epically intolerable.
Where the hell is Usher?!
Besides MANY other differences, James Dean didn’t smoke ladies’ cigarettes… Oh, sorry. Ladies’ “ciggys”.
Haha, I was laughing at that too.
I’m not rooting for him to “fall” anymore. These Bieberisms look more and more related to behavioral health problems, including substance addiction, and quite possibly something else as well. But you know what they say about rock bottom. He’s going to have a hard time finding it under all that money, the sycophants, and his eternal, uh, optimism.
Wouldn’t it up his street cred if he actually smoked “ciggies”?
No, cause they’re BAD for you. Pass the sizzurp…
Except James Dean looks like a man and Bieber does not.
I just CAN’T.
I know he was skinny and then filled out quickly. I know guys can around that age, turning from teens to twenties fill out weightwise, but the way he buffed up overnight, really cut, I wonder if the guy is on steroids and is just having rage issues and behavior changes.
Ohhhhhhh, so THAT’S why he’s been pulling that moronic face all this time! He thinks he’s doing a Dean-esque smolder! And all this time I just thought he and Jaden Smith were legitimately confused/constipated (confusterpated, if you will). Bit of a fail of an attempt but at least I get it now.
Another douchey “star” who feels he needs to compare himself to someone more famous and more talented (and conveniently dead) in some half-ass attempt to borrow thier credibility…
He’s likening himself to James Dean because Mr. Dean is in no condition to deny having ever heard of him.
The only way he would be like James Dean, if James consumed Estrogen and Progesterone.
Can we address the fact that Scooter is going to make a live action remake of Jem and the Holograms!? That idiot I shouldn’t even have the privilege to such flawlessness.
I never liked James Dean, never understood the appeal, but this is ridiculous. I still think the Michal Jackson comparison is far worse. Michael had serious, SERIOUS issues, but he was also one of the most talented pop music artists ever and completely deserves his legendary status. Bieber isn’t fit to shine James Dean’s shoes, but he’s not fit to clean Michael Jackson’s toilet.
I’m pretty sure James Dean wasn’t a little dweeb covered in a bunch of crappy, poorly thought out tattoos.
The tattoo appears to replicate the wound in Jesus’s side made by the solider’s spear while he was hanging on the cross. Thus the reference to Jesus. Look at the shape and position.
Ahhhh..he’s such a desperate little wannabe. He needs to go away and grow up and give us some peace. ( And he ain’t the only one I wish would go away either. There’s a toxic half-term guv I’d like to see drop off into that pit called obscurity too.)
Delusional