Very United Colors of Benetton. Especially like the "tween girl blue" nail polish. He should consider some "hair messing up" product, though, the Shaun Cassidy swirl is wearing...

Great, not only is he Canadian, he is a narcissist.

“No. Never. He was supposed to be a hockey player.”

Oh great. Picture him with a mullet now...

"But I think the best musicians probably are."

Wow... full of ourselves much?

Ya know Humphrey, you seriously have me hoping for this kid's death just so you'll have less new material to post about him.

This wants to look all United Colors of Benetton, but to me it just looks vaguely creepy. The ill-fitting turtleneck, the slightly inappropriately touching hands, the uncomfortable half-smile...

Clearly, the photographer or art director thought this was a good idea, but it just doesn't work. At all.

@6 I was going to say the picture looked remarkably static, but went with the Benetton angle instead (it's such a trial choosing just what to say, after all...) Glad you though it, too, though, and I agree, there is something "off" about it...it makes me think he's all "OCD, don't let them actually touch my skin" about it...would have been better shirtless, or better yet, shirtless Johnny Depp instead of Bieber.

@7 ...Johnny Depp... *swoon*

Sorry. I digress.

But don't forget the other pic of Bieb open shirt playing chess. Seriously, what were these people thinking? Sexy chess picture? The whole photo shoot is a mess.

I'm sorry...but Justin looks EXACTLY like Jane Fonda's character in Klute.

Google it now.

I win.

@8 I know...Johnny Depp...sex on a stick.

Maybe the ick factor is that Le Bieber is so childlike, and that led the art direction of that shoot away from being overtly sexual, which leaves these stiff, oddly posed images of a ten year old playing grown-ups...or something.

This is officially the most I've ever thought about Justin Bieber.

Reverse Polarity, Canuck, you've nailed how unforgettably creepy these pics. They should have just got David LaChappelle - he'd have given us lots of fun in a way that could make sense of all this.

@9 holy shit. You win hands down.

@10 - that's it! he looks like he is 9 years old or something!

Yeah, that Jane Fonda thing is amazing, hadn't thought of it til patrick said "Klute"...

It's a mystery, gus...there is definitely the allure of the quasi-grown up-boy that young girls love. My daughter, rational otherwise for all intents and purposes, loves Bieber, and also that boy child who plays Jacob in the Twilight movies...and she's 19! It must be related to the whole "non-threatening, adorable boy who won't overpower us" idea, I think. But then, I had a massive crush on Robbie Robertson a la The Last Waltz when I saw it for the first time in high school, so I'm probably not the best judge...

Um, Canuck, again with the spooky mind-meld. The interview scenes when I first saw The Last Waltz hooked me as a boy. First Robbie, sure, but then Rick Danko's autistic-y sweetness edged him out.

And just to try to top you in the unreliable-taste department, as a lad I once agreed to give a bum a handjob based on his resemblance to Richard Manuel.

If there had been an internet back then, gus, I would have been like one of those game-playing Japanese boys who starved to death sitting in front of the computer...as it was, I spent every free afternoon I had combing every bookstore in Harvard Square for any info I could find on The Band, and watching the movie when it came around at the repertory movie theater there...it is indeed too twin-brain to think you were probably doing the same thing across the country! I loved that song Rick sings in the Last Waltz, that he prefaces by saying Robbie didn't want to have on their last album (the beast), it begins "I want to lay down beside you..." So sweet, you are right. And too funny about the bum...did you really?? (Asks the person who had a bathroom quickie in Italy with a bartender named Lino who claimed to be a model for Vogue Italia...)

it's true, Canuck, though I confess I only began it. I ran off once he began muttering to himself rather too fiercely.

And I'm envious you've had a Lino. I haven't yet...

I am still giggling, gus, thinking about you scampering off down an alley, looking for a HandiWipe...

Don't be jealous, dear, Lino was completely self-involved, if you know what I mean (the gorgeous ones usually are, aren't they?)

Yes, we are, Canuck. Yes, we are....

I knew it! Your reticence to appear in circus porn was just a ruse designed to confuse, as was the dandruff red herring...
(nice to meet you, Benedict, as I may call you, now that the secret is out...)

"But I think the best musicians probably are."

You are not a musician. You are an entertainer. Like a clown.

Canuck, as long as you mean this one and not this one...

Laughing again.....of COURSE I meant Mr. Cumberbatch!!! But don't worry, your secret is safe with me (but *my*, you are dreamy...)

THAT'S SO STUPID! I HATE U!