We all know that Hollywood stars need a little public relations boost every now and then.
And we know that troubled celebrities frequently hire PR firms to help improve their image.
But have Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez gone too far in their efforts to portray themselves as normal teenage idols? Kissing, butt grabbing, straddling each other – is it too much?
Have their handlers gone too far?
Since the couples last vacation in Hawaii, Gomez has received numerous death threats on twitter and Facebook - and it’s not the first time either.
When Bieber and Gomez first tried keeping their relationship secret, thousands of the “Wizards of Waverly Place” stars fans took to the internet threatening the actress – telling her to back away from the Bieb’s.
There are lots of reasons why Justin needs to be seen with a pretty Hollywood starlet – foremost to help boost his image as a ladies man, and try to dispel any rumors that he may be gay – not that there’s anything wrong with that.
There is even some evidence that Disney would benefit from their starlet Selena Gomez being seen with a popular male celebrity to show her fans she is a normal teenage girl.
But would Disney and Bieber’s team go as far as create certain photo opportunities of the two love birds engaged in very public displays of affection just to give the appearance that they are normal kids in love?
Yes.
During the 70’s and 80’s, Disney was known for showing their gay male actors in photos displaying them around sexy women and manly kinds of activities.
Menudo, a popular teen boy band of the 1970’s did the same thing.
In fact, now openly gay ex-Menudo singer Rickey Martin says his handlers went to great lengths to show him with beautiful girls and participating in masculine events like basketball and football games. He was 15-years-old at the time.
Also, now openly gay actor Chad Allen also recounts how his management team was concerned that he needed to be photographed with girls in an attempt to show his manliness and normalcy.
So are Bieber and Gomez trying to hide something?
Probably not.
But the recent string of photos from Hawaii showing the two engaged in butt grabbing, straddling each other, and passionate kissing may be a little overkill.
The two were seen kissing on a pathway, the Jet Ski booth, on the Jet Ski, on the beach, in the water, parasailing, at dinner, in a car, at the mall, and a few other places.
Really? Is this believable or just a publicity stunt?
When you were 18 did you paw over your girlfriend this way in public? Does your son or daughter act like this when they are at the mall with their significant other?
You can also tell that these photos were planned and not taken by some misfit paparazzi sneaking around in the bushes.
Neither Bieber nor Gomez seems to acknowledge the cameras which tell us they know that they are there, and know they are being photographed. This last batch had over 75 high quality photos – no paparazzi gets a chance to snap that many before being asked to go away.
There were also several very clear shots of JB’s new Hebrew “Jesus” tattoo.
It just seems to be overkill. It seems the powers who are pulling the puppet strings behind the magic curtain have decided that Bieber will be seen in public kissing Selena – and nothing is off limits.
Perhaps this is what it takes in the music industry these days to stay on the top of your game, or maybe it really is teenage puppy love “coincidently” being caught on film.
Maybe this is some type of public relations transition program to get the two propelled out of their teen careers and catapulted into the next phase of stardom.
But what do Justin Bieber’s fans really know about his real father – Jeremy?
Justin was born on March 1, 1994 to 18-year-old Pattie Mallette and Jeremy Jack Bieber in Stratford Ontario Canada.
Pattie was a very religious person and Jeremy was a hard living, rock and roll kind of person who cursed a lot. Their relationship and marriage quickly started to fall apart.
When Justin was only two years old, the two divorced and Patti raised Justin in Stratford while Jeremy moved to Winnipeg.
Justin says that while his parents were divorced, he was still able to see, and be with his dad because of the standard visitation rules of the divorce decree. The father/son relationship was strained at times but overall says he got along with his dad.
As Justin’s career exploded, Jeremy began to see him more often, and was been seen backstage at his Madison Square Garden concert, and at several of his “Never Say Never” movie premiers. In recent years their relationship has become more mature and they keep in touch by phone and email.
Justin says,
"I have a great relationship with my dad now. When I was younger, he taught me how to play some songs on the guitar. He's the one who got me into classic rock and then turned me on to stuff like Guns N' Roses and Metallica. He taught me how to drive too. He's cool.”
But their relationship has not always been a love fest.
During the early years after the divorce, Pattie, who is a devout Christian, felt Jeremy’s rock and roll lifestyle was not a good influence on Justin and tried to limit their time together.
Jeremy Bieber, much like Justin, is a self-taught musician and has played in several bands and tried to make a career out of music on multiple occasions.
After divorcing Pattie, Jeremy moved to Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada and married his current wife Erin Wagner. The couple has two children Jazmin who is 3-years-old and Jaxon who is 12 months old.
On a Manitoba website for active couples, Jeremy and Erin describe their marriage saying,
“We are a high energy couple, and are both very passionate about music. We have a wonderful family, and our children bring the most wonderful light into our lives. One of which has been sharing his musical talents to the world. We have the privilege of watching my son "Justin Bieber" take the world by storm and bring some interesting adventures into our lives. We both enjoy the gym, spending time as a family and find the joy in city life, and country living. We hope to grow old together, and continue to succeed in all aspects of life, the most important aspect being love”
Jeremy is also an avid Gym user. He has been interested in physical fitness and wrestling for years, and is even part owner of a fitness gym in Manitoba.
So where did this kidrauhl thing come from?
Anybody who has ever watched an original YouTube video that Justin uploaded when he was twelve knows the name kidrauhl.
Jeremy says,
“I got the name lordrauhl from a series of books I read written by Terry Goodkind where the main character was named Lord Rauhl. The books were Sword of Tears, Sword of Truth, Soul of Fire, and Wizards First Rule. There was an entire series of stories and I fell in love with the Lord Rauhl character. Justin setup his YouTube channel as kidrauhl since he was the son of Lord Ruahl. It was kind of an inside family joke.”
Another interesting bit of trivia is Jeremy’s tattoos. He has a ton, but one in particular will appeal to Justin’s fans – and that is the seagull tattoo. Both Justin and Jeremy have the same small tattoo above their left waistline.
Brian Byrne, the co-owner of the Son of a Gun Tattoo and Barbershop where Justin and his dad visited says,
"From what I can gather, several of the male Bieber family members actually have that same Jonathan Livingston seagull tattoo - his dad included. It’s kind of a rite of passage thing they do when a Bieber male turns 16. Justin had just turned 16 and he wanted the tattoo”.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a book about a young seagull learning how to fly and learning about life in the process and the book’s cover features the outline of a bird in flight that is identical to Justin and Jeremy’s tattoo.
So why don’t we see a lot of Jeremy Bieber in the press or in paparazzi photos?
A friend says,
“Jeremy and Pattie still have a somewhat uncomfortable relationship but they interact because of Justin and his two step-siblings. Jeremy wants Justin to know he supports everything he is doing, and that he is proud of him, but does not want to get in the way or interfere with anything he has accomplished”.
Friends say Jeremy is very outspoken and feels he could do more harm than good being in front of the Paparazzi cameras and does not want to jeopardize anything in Justin’s life or career.
InfoStar suspects that as Justin grows a bit older, his relationship with Jeremy will continue to grow, and the past will become a building block for their future.
Nobody ever said it was easy being a teen singing sensation - and Justin Bieber is starting to see that privacy is sometimes the first casualty of fame.
Bieber lashed out at the Israel Paparazzi Tuesday morning after the paps would not leave him alone while at a church in the Holy land near Tel Aviv.
“They should be ashamed of themselves. Take pictures of me eating but not in a place of prayer, ridiculous. People wait their whole lives for opportunities like this, why would they want to take that experience away from someone? Staying in the hotel for the rest of the week u happy?”
Bieber, a devout Christian, has been anxious to arrive in Israel and have a few days off before his concert on Thursday to enjoy the sights. This is something he doesn’t get to do often.
Justin’s dad, Jeremy Bieber, mother, and family members of the tour’s cast and crew have all met in the Holy land and have been looking forward to this trip for months.
But after spending the day shirtless on the beach and riding around town on a scooter, Bieber and his family and crew visited an ancient church. Bieber had been allowing the paparazzi access to him all day but had asked them for some privacy while the family was in church.
Things did not go so well.
“They were everywhere. They were trying to get in the doors and looking in the windows. They were hiding in bushes and vans. A couple of them actually got inside and made a scene. Justin was not happy.”
Justin – when you get back to your hotel room tonight, remember the $150 million dollars you have in the bank back home, and that this type of incident is bound to happen when you are a super star.
Our take: Get over it and move on. Don’t let it ruin your day.
Sixth grader and twelve year old Lady Gaga fan Greyson Michael Chance wowed his schools assembly and talent show with his piano and vocal version of "Paparazzi".
The original video went viral overnight.
Greyson just appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres show and took a live phone call from Miss Gaga herself and gave another performance.
Watch Greyson Chance Sing and Play Lady Gaga "Paparazzi" on Ellen
The videos they keep releasing on a daily basis now are really getting over the top, this one for Lady Gaga's Paparazzi (as always thanks to the quick tipsters in comments); on a transatlantic flight over last Christmas I had the chance to listen to Lady GaGa's album on the plane's entertainment screens and Paparazzi was the song (along with other suggestive ones obviously) that stuck out most for me. Emphasizing the word 'Papa' from it "Papa-Paparazzi" shows the word's meaning and significance (the origin of the word 'Paparazzo' itself comes from Marionette Manipulator of puppet actorsFederico Fellini's [image from this post, click for more on Fellini] 1960 film 'La Dolce Vita'; the surname of the journalist in it is Paparazzo). While there is speculation over what the actual origins of the name in the film are (see the wiki link, seems very unlikely [rightly "strongly contested"]) but for me it is fairly obvious, 'papa' meaning 'daddy' in Italian (also Pope which has it's own MK implications) and 'razzo' meaning 'rocket' in Italian, which is of course a phallic shaped explosive machine that shoots off into space (dissociation), so Papa (daddy) + razzo (rocket) Paparazzo. Considering how much incest abuse factors into MK (particularly traumatic), this would make a child extremely dissociative; hence why this name has been adopted as a standard word for celebrity photographers (the link to dissociation). Their role of constantly flash-photographing the multitude of "airhead" (for a reason, most are abused from a young age and are only allowed to have that dumb public persona, it is all a mask) is part of keeping these 'celebs' dissociative, easier to control as flashing/strobe lights are well known to have this slight effect (depending on the idividual obviously). Of course humiliation and being under 'constant watch' is a huge part of the role the insane (to the outside observer), feral paparazzi plays in the global MK infrastructure. The imagery and symbolism in the video and the rest of the lyrics pretty much speak for themselves (as always, how much you take from the imagery is wholly dependent on your level of symbolic and MK/psychological awareness [I'd do a usual somewhat detailed analysis but I want to focus on some other posts these videos have been delaying]).
[may edit to better quality images]
We are the crowd We're c-coming out Got my flash on it's true Need that picture of you It's so magical We'd be so fantastico
Leather and jeans Garage glamorous Not sure what it means But this photo of us It don't have a price Ready for those flashing lights 'Cause you know that baby I
I'm your biggest fan I'll follow you until you love me Papa-paparazzi Baby there's no other superstar You know that I'll be your Papa-paparazzi
Promise I'll be kind But I won't stop until that boy is mine Baby you'll be famous Chase you down until you love me Papa-paparazzi
I'll be your girl Backstage at your show Velvet ropes and guitars Yeah cause you'll know I'm staring between the sets Eyeliner and cigarettes
Shadow is burnt Yellow dance and return My lashes are dry Purple teardrops I cry It don't have a price Loving you is cherry pie 'Cause you know that baby I
I'm your biggest fan I'll follow you until you love me Papa-paparazzi Baby there's no other superstar You know that I'll be your Papa-paparazzi
Promise I'll be kind But I won't stop until that boy is mine Baby you'll be famous Chase you down until you love me Papa-paparazzi
Real good (We dance in the studio) Snap, snap (To that shit on the radio)
Don't stop boy, let it rewind We'll blast it but we'll still have fun
I'm your biggest fan I'll follow you until you love me Papa-paparazzi Baby there's no other superstar You know that I'll be your Papa-paparazzi
Promise I'll be kind But I won't stop until that boy is mine Baby you'll be famous Chase you down until you love me Papa-paparazzi
As she tumbles down the cliff (symbolic rabbit hole [and obviously all the other allegories/mechanisms for dissociation]), dissociation is shown here clearly as the hypnotic black/white spiral is shown spinning as the falls.
Everyone knows this spiral pattern is used in hypnosis [it should always go without saying that these videos are designed to manipulate/MK the minds of the viewing masses also as well as showing GaGa's MK, particularly stepped up in recent videos ((you have to appreciate just how multifaceted all of this is))], this further shows the dissociative effects of the Paparazzi's constant flashing lights and the role they play in MK in general (the song is called 'Paparazzi' and features the hypnotic black/white spinning spiral [put two and two together and please don't make five] along with the load of other MK imagery in it [masks, bunny ears, bird cage veil, dog dehumanization, leopard print, general misogyny/exploitation of GaGa, pink hair highlight, robot themes, heart, Mickey Mouse ears, horns, one eye shots etc etc]). Here's a quote for people not quite up to scratch on what dissociation/altered states/hypnosis is:
Ernest R. Hilgard of Stanford University described hypnosis as a dissociative state [I covered the various dissociatve states in this CSI post]. The concept of dissociation—having one part of the mind "split off" and work independently from the rest—originated with Pierre Janet (Jan-AY) (1859-1947). Janet worked with multiple personality patients (see the later section on dissociative identity disorder. (Dissociative Identity Disorder is the modern name for multiple personality disorder). Multiple personality is perhaps the most spectacular example of dissociation.
How did Hilgard describe hypnosis? Why is hypnosis considered a dissociative state?
Hypnosis is much less dramatic than multiple personality, but it contains the essential ingredients of all dissociative states: a person does intelligent actions without normal conscious awareness and later has a hard time remembering it. For example, a hypnotized person can be told to feel a poke in the back when he or she hears a particular word. Later the person does not remember this suggestion, but when the special word is pronounced, the person jumps as if he or she just felt a poke in the back. Some portion of the mind or cognitive system, separated or dissociated from ordinary awareness, remembered and executed the instructions. (source)
These guys are apparently a band from Sweden, Snake of Eden (see this post for description on the Garden of Eden/original sin/serpent symbolism [snake = phallus, fruit = sex etc]). They are triplets (their appearance certainly looks MK'd) and have been in Daisy Delahoya's Daisy of Love (these types of MTV shows/music videos are always used to give their slaves some exposure).
May find out who some of these models are post on them.
Broken robot :'( The 22-year-old US singer revealed that the first time her father saw her perform, she was wearing "a leopard-thong-fringed bikini with a sequined high-waisted belt and granny panties, and it was so wrong it was amazing". [source] [above image is not Lady Gaga (she does look a little like her though in my opinion), just thought the imagery/symbolism was very pertinent here; from this, can't find much info on it]
"NeuroSonic", more on this (thanks to advertising/spambot commenter; showing how much it's being pushed [apologiez if Justin is an actual person]) extremely suspect new "drink" see their official site + blog and all the other promotional crap (all they have to do is promote it in their controlled media through their controlled celebrity slaves [i.e. Paris Hilton, Hayden Pan2, LiLo, (use search function at top for more on them) etc], and the insanely suggestible masses must have it!) I'm sure someone knows more about these than I do, I didn't even think it could be a real drink at first :|.
The fact that products like these are even allowed onto the market (an energy drink for 'Sleep' how does that make sense, and 'gasm'/sex and 'Bliss'.... what???) is highly suspect to me. "Be Smart. Drink Neuro." [standard psychological manipulation used in corporate advertising] Obviously the smart thing to do is to avoid it like the plague! (the video pretty much tells you it's poison anyway!)
"The scene also features a shot of the lilac tea cup that Lady GaGa drank from while on the Jonathan Ross show. She later reportedly flew into a tantrum when it went missing." [from Daily Mail; the teacup is part of her programming, thanks to a commenter in this post for pointing out this in 'The Three Faces of Eve' (remember 'Snake of Eden' in the video also suggests Eve) where her alter throws a tantrum demanding her china teacup! (gives the traumatized alter the illusion of comfort, sort of like a strange version of child's teddy bear/blanket; not shown in the below trailer but you can read it in the script here)]
The director of this video, 'Jonas Akerland' has also created many other MK videos such as Pink's Sober (that feminist masterpiece 'Smack My Bitch Up' is probably his most famous) and has worked a lot with Madonna (Ray of Light video and 'I'm going to tell you a secret' documentary). His first feature film is very telling as it's called 'Spun' (spinning/spun/disorientation/spin programming) and is about essentially a bunch of MK'd actors on methamphetamine, 'spun' is the slang used for a long stint on the drug (drugs like that [speed/meth/etc], while not being particularly dissociative; are useful in MK because of their extremely addictive properties [all about controlling/manipulating their mental states; a few days on a stimulant like speed, then suddenly switch them to wildly dissociative/hallucinatory drugs, i.e LSD]. In general, people on drugs are more suggestible and easier to ; Lady GaGa has told of her history of drug use [cocaine, but I'm sure like many addicts she also did meth and others; I don't believe that fairytale she tells about her father helping her stop drugs in the link for a second]).
His latest film looks interesting 'The Horsemen' [ready for some self-fulfilling prophesies to play out over the next few years? (the nuts in charge have had all this shit set up leading to 2012 for many years ((Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Israel etc are all part of this future organized chaos)); I personally don't feel we're too far from the kind of dystopian future we've been shown in various works of fiction ((Bladerunner, Metropia below etc)))].
Regarding the actor playing Lady GaGa's handler ["papa"/"daddy" in the lyrics] who throws her off the edge (who most of the lyrics are directed at) is Alexander Skarsgard (product of an acting family; I've seen him in Generation Kill as Brad "Iceman" Colbert, he's probably more well known for his role in True Blood as a vampire who owns a nightclub called 'Fangtasia', he was also in Zoolander as a male model 'Meekus'). He is the guy inside the head (so symbolic manipulator/programmer) in the above MK symbolic poster for 'Metropia'. "Metropia is taking place in a not-so-distant, terrifying Europe. The world is running out of oil and the net of undergrounds has been connected, creating a gigantic subway web underneath Europe. Roger from Farsta (a suburb of Stockholm) tries to stay away from the underground. He thinks its unpleasant and he sometimes hear strange voices in is head. One day Roger finds out that his life is controlled in every detail. He tries to break free. To succeed he needs super-model Nina to help him [Juliette Lewis]. Or is it maybe Nina who needs Roger?" At least some things always remain a constant even in our dystopian future, Hello Kitty! (seems to be lots of cats at the start of the trailer in the guy's bedroom too).
