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this film showcases that Bieber has the talent to back up what he’s selling. I was truly impressed at his humble beginnings and to see that natural talent explode into a musical enigma. I truly believe that Justin Bieber if he continues to have the right people around him, helping him make smart business and musical choices and he continues to love what he does, he will be along the ranks of the great artists that endure generations.

I understand the appeal for the Biebs as he’s a good kid. He’s clean cut, talented and shows that if you work hard, love what you do and are determined to reach your goal, anything is possible. For someone so young, he is showing he’s a good role model for young kids to emulate and look up to.

"even someone who lacks susceptibility to Bieber fever can be impressed by the kid's precocity."

ieber was the fourth best selling music artist in the United States in 2010, with 3.7 million album sales, mostly for his second album "My World 2.0",

''I swear, all he wants to do is go out and run around with those girls out there. But he won't. He's in there with his vocal coach, and he'll be in there until showtime.''

It may not give you Bieber Fever, but you may not be so adamant about finding a cure either.

Family, friends and famous faces pay lip service to his talent, and footage showing Bieber acing drums as an 8-year-old and confidently performing hits at Madison Square Garden make a strong case

despite the fame, he's still a kid with a good heart in touch with his roots.

The singer comes off as genuinely sweet, predictably puckish and absolutely in love with his family. (Footage of his estranged father losing his composure at a show is particularly moving.) Bieber can croon frothy tunes and dance pretty darn well. His greatest talent might be as a drummer, and there's dynamite footage to prove that, as well.

last year he became the youngest singer to top the American Billboard Charts since Stevie Wonder in 1963.

, his emergence from YouTube is proof of the changes in the music industry and the wider world. "Five or six years ago there was no direct link between an artist and the fans," he says. "There was always mediation by a journalist, or a DJ, some sort of gatekeeper. There is now a completely direct route. Even parents are taken out of the equation too."

He says the lessons of Bieber's success are already being learned by the music business. "Record label talent scouts do look at YouTube. If you want a pop icon for your roster then trawling the clubs of Camden isn't the way to do it any more.

Madison Square Garden. Bieber sold the legendary venue out in 22 minutes, a remarkable accomplishment for a 16-year-old who was virtually unknown a little more than a year prior to that performance on August 31, 2010.

Never Say Never emphasizes Bieber's hard work and perseverance

It’s difficult to image anyone hating Bieber himself after watching this movie, even if it doesn’t change any critics’ minds about his music.

Justin is truly talented. He is that special superstar that you see once in a lifetime. He plays four instruments, self-taught. He showed that in is YouTube channel. He had an incredible tone in his voice. He was captivating and I think that the marketing was right.

people didn’t want to sign him because he didn’t have a Disney or Nickelodeon show, and because no one had ever broken in through YouTube. Justin Timberlake had the biggest YouTube star in the world, Esmee Denters, and it hadn’t worked yet.

There was no validly and no proven track record. The only ways minors have broken over the past years was through having their own Disney or Nickelodeon show and every label told me that unless I had a TV show attached to one of those networks, they were not interested whatsoever.

Justin Bieber, an artist that defines what it means to be a modern artist,

If one theme is a constant: it's how musical this 16-year-old truly is.

Does that mean Bieber fever is about to hit its peak? To the contrary. It's more like this team is just getting started.

Does that mean Bieber fever is about to hit its peak? To the contrary. It's more like this team is just getting started.

"Kids made Justin. They made the fan pages, they spread the Twitters, they put up videos. I'm a good marketer, but not as good as them."

affordable-housing apartment. "It was awful," Mallette says, laughing. "But we had a roof over our head and heat and food most of the time. It's quite different coming where we're coming from to being driven around in limos."

We have always been deeply social creatures. We have always sought collective experiences. But we've never been able to instantly decide, by the millions, what trend we're going to rush to embrace, and then ride a cultural tsunami together.

We've always had this in one way, shape or form, but YouTube, Twitter, and the 2-4/7 gossip cycle enable the Biebers of the world to accelerate to superstardom faster than ever before.

While this particular teenager may be gifted, which he is, and may be managed by smart people, which he also is

An admittedly “smitten” Gayle King raved on her video blog: “There is so much more to Justin Bieber than ‘Baby, Baby, Baby,’ but oh baby, is he good! I’m a Belieber!”

“I’ve seen an artist ascend this fast before but never this big,” says Antonio “L.A.” Reid, chairman of Island Def Jam Music Group (IDJ), who signed Bieber to a 360 deal in October 2008. “It’s like the Beatles. It feels like when I was a kid and wanted to go see A Hard Day’s Night.”

“It’s a big joke between me and Justin now, but I became completely obsessed with tracking him down,” Braun says. 

How connected he is to his fans. People are like, ‘Oh he Twitters. He knows his audience.' He really does. But being with him, he knows fans by name. When he sees them on street, he looks them in eye. He won't stop for cameras or interviews, but he will stop for fans. If it's a little girl or a mom, he will stop. We had an interview the other day where someone showed him a video of a fan crying and going crazy, and everyone was laughing. I was laughing about how ridiculous this girl was. He wasn't laughing. He was like, ‘She is such a sweetheart.' This is real for him. I thought that was noble and admirable about him.

I didn't know how real he was. When I spent more time with him, I grew to love him as a friend. He is just a kid. This is just the beginning. This could be a trilogy; this is just the first chapter. We will see him in 10 years. Will he leave this world, or continue to grow in his music and art? That intrigued me in and of itself. I didn't know a lot about his music or his family. But to young underdogs, he is their Peter Pan.

The fans are his manager, they are the ones who put him to the world and they demand the respect of that.”

“They are hardcore! You don’t not talk bad about Justin Bieber, you do not do anything to Justin Bieber, you do not put one fan above the other – they will kill and attack you.”

The fans had a huge influence on this movie, they spoke out on what they wanted to see, they spoke out on what they didn’t want to see, they spoke out on when we did something they didn’t like and we listened, because that’s who were making the movie for, it’s been a fun journey with them as well.”