We Cannot Escape The Bieber

On Friday, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek about Justin Bieber and how he’s so important that Hollywood Life has given him his own section, and how it’s Bieber’s world, we’re just living in it. Well, I am not so sure I’m really joking anymore. Not when I innocently click on “Katie Couric’s Notebook” from her Twitter feed (Betsy Ross, she hardly knew ye) and it reveals on a sidebar that the most popular story of the day is “Justin Bieber Has Waterfight With Fans.”

I clicked on that report. It is, basically, that Justin Bieber got off his tour bus and greeted waiting fans with some water-chicanery. It’s 30 seconds long. “Team Bieber used water guns, water balloons and Justin even threw a bucket of water on fans, who didn’t seem to mind being drenched by the pop star.”

Okay, so in truth that happened Friday night – slow news weekend and all that – but still. Bieber has since been supplanted in the “Most Popular” list but he’ll be back. Maybe some reporter will catch him sneezing. Anyhow, this video is useful for providing us with a Justin-Bieber-as-Mick-Jagger screenshot. The lascivious tongue suggests that he may go the way of the Miley sooner than we thought. Can the pole be far behind? We shall see. In the meantime: Bieber, and CBS News.

**Rejected headline for this post: Is that a giant plastic watergun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? Sigh. I’m going straight to hell.

New: The Mediaite One-Sheet "Newsletter of Newsletters"
Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. Subscribe now!