Elyar Fox covering BOYFRIEND.
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More extras & outtakes from GQ Magazine, by DREW MAGARY.
“I spent five days in Los Angeles trying to get an audience with Justin Bieber, and there was a lot of random crap I experienced that didn’t make it into the final article for the June 2012 print edition because it was random, and in most cases, it was crap. Ah, but now we’re online, where I can post any worthless tangent I please. Here’s the best of the rest from the Bieber sessions:
- This was the first time I’ve ever profiled a celebrity for a big magazine, so I made sure to follow journalistic protocol and use a voice recorder to accurately capture everything said by Bieber and his friends. I had the voice recorder in my shirt pocket and, despite the fact that everyone at the recording studio knew I was a reporter, I still felt like an FBI informant walking around wearing a wire. I felt so, so dangerous. I desperately wanted Bieber to forget I was there and begin negotiating the sale of 30,000 kilos of heroin. Instead, I’m the one who forgot I was mic’d up for the entire four hours at the studio, so I left the recorder on when I went to go take a piss. GQ’s fact checker, who had to listen to the entire audio, was not happy about me pulling a Frank Drebin into the mic. I’m real sorry about that, Rafi. But we both know it could have been worse.
- When Bieber and I first met, we decided to play ping pong because we had nothing else to do. Bieber destroyed me—sample Bieber trash talk quote: “Get on me, bro!”—but our game never made it into the article because, in the very same issue, GQ correspondent Chris Heath profiles Michael Fassbender and also plays ping pong with him. That’s right. “GQ: We Play Ping Pong With People.” [Editor's note: As it turned out, the ping pong match between Chris Heath and Michael Fassbender ended up getting cut from the story because of space constraints. Sorry, Drew!] [click to continue…]
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Justin Bieber’s rise to fame reminds Usher of his own career and the R’n'B star loves being a part of Justin’s success.
Usher revealed he loves being involved in Justin’s career because it brings back memories of when he was first starting out.
He told MTV:
“I relive every bit of it, from the screaming fans and the first reactions, shutting down the malls. The first reaction is like no other. To be able to be there, to be there with him and go through those emotions and see that shock for the first time [is exciting].
Usher also explained he isn’t worried about Justin going off the rails because he has good friends and supporters around him.
“Cool part about it is, he’s really able to live a dream that I think most teenagers would want to. To be able to have friends like [boxer Floyd] Mayweather. They are actual friends, hang out, talk. It’s really cool to be able to have friends all around the world and people that can relate to your reality.
“I don’t think Michael [Jackson] had people like that. I didn’t have a ton of people like that. I had Puff [P. Diddy]. I had JD [producer Jermaine Dupri] … but to be able to have friends all around the world that keep you, it’s cool.”
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