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Justin Bieber: Never Say Never Review - 0 views

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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.
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Never Say Never emphasizes Bieber's hard work and perseverance
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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.
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It’s also obviously intended as a rebuttal to critics who denounce Bieber as a manufactured pop star, as it emphasizes his musicianship and the hard work he’s put in to get to where he is now.
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he first displayed an aptitude for drumming rather than singing. From playing jazz standards at the age of 8,
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Reid recalls thinking Bieber was “the Macaulay Culkin of music”, a slight underestimation given the Beatlemania-esque frenzy that now surrounds Bieber’s every move.
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Inside the Brand of Justin Bieber: An Interview with Manager Scooter Braun - Dan Schawb... - 0 views

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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.
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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.
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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.
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There’s a sense of discovery and a sense of ownership. The kids found him.
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They found him by us simply letting him introduce himself over the internet, like any other teenager would. They built his brand through word-of-mouth.
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here’s this kid, who comes from a background with a teenage mother. Justin and her struggled their entire lifetime, then he put videos on YouTube, and now he’s living this dream. It gave the kids hope, something to believe in
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Justin serves as a good role model when all their seeing on TV is spoiled kids on The Hills, where the message in almost every program on television is glamour, glitz, money, and entitlement.
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What we introduced was a new philosophy showing that if the number one retailer in music is iTunes, then why shouldn’t the number one marketing avenue be the internet?
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We left them tell us what they wanted at time and constantly kept surprising them, and we kept our word, and that’s the most important thing. As Justin has become bigger and bigger, we haven’t left them behind.
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The only other secret is that he has something special that cannot be taught. That’s the real superstar stuff. And you see it, not only with him generating traffic, but you can see it when he takes the stage and I’m nervous that he can’t sing because he’s tired. When he broke his leg
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e went out there with a broken foot and a cast and performed an entire show at Manchester Stadium and then over the next three weeks did 14 radio shows with a broken foot.
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He has become a worldwide phenomenon. You look at so many other acts and they become big domestically and it takes them 2-3 years to start breaking into other markets around the world.
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Justin Bieber Cover: The Team and Strategy Behind Making Him a Star - The Hollywood Rep... - 1 views

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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!”
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“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.”
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“It’s a big joke between me and Justin now, but I became completely obsessed with tracking him down,” Braun says. 
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Bieber’s pitch-perfect a cappella
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“Meeting someone that talented is a once-in-a-lifetime chance,” Usher says. “He was cute, so I knew the girls would love him, and with that voice, it was, like, ‘Wow — if we guide, nurture and direct him right, the possibilities could be endless.’”
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“Usher asked me once, ‘Why did you never allow me to be a child star?’ I said, ‘Because I wanted you to cross the threshold.’ I didn’t want him singing Radio Disney music, I wanted really heartfelt R&B songs, and partly because of that, Usher still has a career today.
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“We were flown to Justin’s house in Memphis,” Braun says. “He and Ken Komisar, who runs [Timberlake’s Interscope-affiliated label] Tennman Records, offered us a deal, but it wasn’t what we wanted.
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That’s especially true of a label like IDJ, whose roster runs the gamut from rock (Bon Jovi, the Killers, Fall Out Boy) to pop (Bieber, Rihanna, Mariah Carey) to hip-hop (West, Ludacris, Rick Ross).
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- Kara Tomlin on 22 Feb 11
  
  basically when Usher lost his voice in 1994 because of puberty LA Reid wanted drop him. but P.Diddy said not to because he was still everything he was when he was first signed
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">basically when Usher lost his voice in 1994 because of puberty LA Reid wanted drop him. but P.Diddy said not to because he was still everything he was when he was first signed</div>
  
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They all said the same thing: ‘He’s too young.’ ‘No one’s broken from YouTube.’ ‘Go get a TV show; you can’t compete with Disney or Nickelodeon.’ ”
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Justin doesn’t do the same thing as the Jonas Brothers or Miley Cyrus; his is a mature blend of pop and R&B music. It will have a longer shelf life.” Working tirelessly for two-thirds of the year — with a mandatory two days off each week — also helps.
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Bieber has achieved boy band-level sales as a solo artist, generating revenue in the hundreds of millions.
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We had a seven-figure order for trading-card packs in Israel.” Not bad — Israel only has 7 million citizens.
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Braun says. “I make him talk to his lawyer and business manager for at least one hour once a week,” he says. “I want him to understand everything so that he never has any fear about decisions being made for him.”
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‘The guy isn’t hating me, he’s hating the concept of me.’ ”
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“It takes time to be an icon,” Usher says. “That’s why I’m here — to make sure he doesn’t forget that.  But the hardest part is done: He has a majorly successful album and an incredible fan base that wants to grow with him.”
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Braun insists Bieber’s best days are ahead of him. “Watch what happens when Justin’s 19,” he says. “People forget that Michael Jackson was considered done after the Jackson 5, yet he changed the world.”
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