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Justin Bieber and Gandhi just want to smoke blunts, leave them alone

By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 12 November 2015

I think Justin Bieber should give up this music lark and just do interviews. It’s what he’s best at. Having recently compared himself to the actual messiah, he’s now downgraded himself to someone a bit more on his level as a great human: Gandhi.

Speaking to the NME, Bieber says that his troubled late teenage years, and all the hoo haa that surrounded his antics, were the result of him being held to unattainable standards: “It’s because of the way the ‘Justin Bieber brand’ was portrayed. I was a wholesome popstar who was so amazing who had nice hair and a fucking image that no one could ever live up to”.

I don’t quite understand, JB. Could you give me an example? “So when all this happened people were like, ‘Woah, let’s rip him apart’. If you see Gandhi roll up a blunt, it’s different to seeing Ryan Gosling roll up a blunt. You wouldn’t give Ryan Gosling a hard time”.

Right. Did Gandhi smoke blunts? I don’t think I would have told Gandhi off for smoking a blunt. Let Gandhi smoke his blunts, people.

He also compared himself to Amy Winehouse, saying: “I watched the Amy Winehouse documentary on the plane and I had tears in my eyes because I could see what the media was doing to her, how they were treating her. People thought it was funny to poke her when she was at rock bottom, to keep pushing her down until she had no more of herself. And that’s what they were trying to do to me”.

There is something in that, I guess. Though you could argue that Amy Winehouse’s problems were clearer and more severe than Justin Bieber’s. Maybe. A little bit. I mean, she never threw eggs at anyone’s house.

Still, Bieber’s right, he is a lot more fun to write about now that he’s bounced back to become the world’s greatest human.