On 7/12/2012 1:14 AM, Warp wrote:
> John VanSickle<evi### [at] kosherhotmailcom>  wrote:
>> Every YouTube video for a song over 20 years old has at least one
>> comment along the lines of, "We had such awesome music back then, now
>> all we've got is Justin Bieber."
>
>    Why do people hate him?
>
>    Perhaps the best related comment I have seen was: "Freddie Mercury dressed
> as a housewife is manlier than JB."

For the same reason that lots of people have hated every over-promoted 
mediocrity.  Many people perceive it as an attempt to mold their 
thinking, which people resent when it takes an apparently overt form, 
and for some it has grown into a simmering resentment, which results in 
a knee-jerk display of hostility at any evidence that he ever existed.

The phenomenon is not limited to Justin Bieber or to popular 
entertainment.  There are a lot of things whose mere mention (even here) 
will provoke a rant of multiple paragraphs.

Regards,
John

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