Bieber Fever

Bieber Fever



How the Internet made Justin Bieber a star


BY CLAIRE SUDDATH






Justin Bieber has a warm smile and overgrown hair that he brushes forward into his face. His giant high-tops are always untied. The 16-year-old musician seems at first like nothing more than the latest in a line of teen idols, such as Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus and the Jonases. But Bieber is something else entirely: the first real teen idol of the digital age, a star who became famous thanks to the Internet.


The Path to Fame


Bieber didn't arrive through the normal channels: he wasn't a child model; he was never on Star Search or the Disney Channel; his parents didn't audition him for commercials. In 2007 he was 12 years old and living in Stratford, Ontario, in Canada, with his mother, Pattie Mallette.


Mallette began posting videos of her son's musical performances on YouTube so that relatives could see him in action: Bieber participating in a local talent show or singing and playing guitar at home. He covered pop and R&B songs: Matchbox Twenty, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys. And he was good. Really good. So good that strangers started watching his videos. Within months, his Internet following numbered in the thousands. Not bad for a middle-school student.


Late one night in 2007, Scooter Braun, an Atlanta-based promoter and music manager, was surfing the Internet when he stumbled upon a grainy home video of Bieber belting out Aretha Franklin's "Respect." "It was such raw talent," Braun says. Two weeks later, he flew Bieber and his mother to Atlanta and became his manager.


Building a Fan Base


Braun and Bieber spent the next six months building a fan base. Bieber would post new songs on YouTube, respond to messages from fans and interact with them. Even now, with 2.2 million Twitter followers, he frequently responds to fans' questions and retweets their greetings. "I also try to read all of my fan mail," he says.


Among other artists, word of Bieber's talent quickly spread. Justin Timberlake wanted to work with him. So did Usher. "He sang and played the guitar for me, and I was like, Wow, this kid has even more talent than I did at that age," he says. The R&B star struck a business deal with Braun; a record contract soon followed.


By the time Bieber released his first, seven-song album, My World, in November 2009, he had 50 million YouTube subscribers and was one of the most discussed topics on Twitter. Four songs issued as singles had already topped the Billboard charts, making him the first artist to have four hit songs before ever releasing an album.


New Kid on the Block


By the time My World 2.0 debuted at Number 1 in March, Bieber was everywhere. The video for his single "Baby" was viewed more than 107 million times. He performed on The Late Show with David Letterman, on The Tonight Show and at the White House.


By album sales, he is already more popular than the Jonas Brothers, 'NSync or New Kids on the Block were at the same point in their careers. Usher calls him "the beginning of a new generation of artists." Bieber is simply grateful for what's already happened. "I feel like I just won the lotto," he says.


Max-Justin Bieber is a great singer now, even he is only 16. Many people think he is not a original teenidol, because he didn’t do anything in the past few years. I think: “he can sing well, and put his video in Youtube, and got famous because many people watched his videos.” After putting the videos, a manager saw his videos, and thought he was great. The manager let him sing a lot of songs, and became popular, even after some people want him to die after his album released.


Justin Bieber’s manager put his MV on Youtube, and many people watched it. Justin Bieber sang some of those songs with Ludacris, and Sean Kingston. Now, his song “Baby” viewed more than 163 million times. He also has his first album, hosted television shows, and sang at the White House. I don’t really know a singer can become popular because of putting videos on Youtube!

U.S. Team creates first “synthetic life”

U.S. Team creates first “synthetic life”-Max



Biology and chemistry is getting developing, so some biologists started to copy cells in a sheep called Dolly, made into stem cells, and put the cell into another sheep. After the baby sheep is born, the biologists saw this sheep is actually the same as Dolly. And at 1998, biologists used leftover baby embryo and made into stem cells for the first time! After that, many biologists started to investigate stem cells. After 15 years of research, 4 thousand million dollars, the U.S. has made first synthetic life, by manmade, but not like “babies are born when somebody is pregnant”. Sure, we don’t even know how it’s going in the next few months, maybe it will be born, or die. Manmade DNA is very hard to make, even harder by copy sheep’s cells. But I think since after this develops, many countries can make those things after the years go by, and more manmade people will be made in the future.