But on another note, if any of you must sell all of your steampunk stuff because it’s too cool, let me know because it’s hard for me to find time and materials to make it.

…. but someone should be fired for this. someone in the line of people that approve things should have said, “no. I will not let this make it all the way to the internet.” I can’t decide which part I hate more – the extremely outdated haircut, the cheesy 90s feel of the arrangement, or the part where he emotionally pulls off his jacket like he’s singing about anything but santa claus.

By the seventh time, I had caught on somewhat. You have to admire the director’s persistence.

I didn’t really mind the music industry co-opting another punk movement or the fact Will Smith did it better. Personally, I thought the most off-putting part of the video was the Bieb pantomiming a Motown studio drummer, then throwing his sticks at the camera right before finishing the little drum outro. James Brown (RIP) would have told him you have to hit it then quit. 

if you keep looking at something, that will change its’ behaviour.

So you’re saying that we should expect Biebz next video to have a banana theme?

Picture my surprise….

Move on, create your own movement. come up with the next trend.

All that work to provide commercial entertainment scum with a fresh gimmick for their latest video.

Let this be a reminder to all of us: you may think you’re an aesthetic renegade, on the cutting edge of what’s underground and original.  But really you’re just an unpaid worker for the entertainment/marketing industry, tirelessly grinding away to come up with the next authentically cool trend that they can turn into cash.