Last night I watched Justin Beiber's video for Boyfriend which by the way was weird and probably has Selena Gomez throwing some expensive trinkets at him right now.
I've always wondered how actors and singers who are involved or married to someone in real life can smitten with someone else and not have their significant other get pissed at them. Recent examples are Robert Downey Jr. kissing Gwyneth Paltrow especially when Downey credits his wife as being so key to helping him break his addictions (Wikepedia.com), Christian Borle from Smash kissing every male that walks by when he's married to a woman, Will Smith when he treats Jada like she's his Queen (which is how a man should treat his wife FYI). I just never understood why. Oh okay, it’s their job, but I knew a kid who wanted to have his first kiss be with his wife so when he was in the lead of a musical at his school, Singing in the Rain—a fantastic musical BTW—he faked the kisses by turning away. So it’s not just the job there are ways around it because I’m pretty sure once he does get married, if he continues in theater he will probably want to keep only kissing his wife. But respect and honor to the woman who are able to date or marry these desirable men because having the trust they do for their men to be able to allow them to still “do” their job is crazy. And vice versa; I don't know how Nick Cannon and Jay-Z do it with Mariah and Beyoncé. Major trust!
But JB's Boyfriend was a weird video for me. It was literally the "guy" video: fast expensive cars, big flashy watches, a base that is so powerful that water bounces off of it, random icicles...not sure what that was about, maybe to prove he can buy "ice" for girls, a girl who will snap if you handle her too roughly because she’s way to damn skinny, and sexual whispering.
The video starts off with a recently turned 18 year old JB whispering in the ear of not one but two females during the first verse, then flashes, as if you blinked and missed something, and starts the song all over with a slightly different video—cue cars, dancing, glasses coming down slyly as he sees a girl, and JB singing to her.
First off that flash was a little weird, and second of all whoever did this video, wait it says in the video let me look...yeah by some hack named Director X...lame, definitely was trying to make Justin look older and failed miserably. Mainly because of the fact that he and Selena just moved into Aston Kutcher and Demi Moore's old house a few months back and if you know how much that house cost, we all know JB is a grown man now. But he tried to through in all the flashy unobtainable things men want but sadly, only immature boys who are either stars or drug dealers have and it only made him look immature. It already seems as if he's shooting for an older sound with his album Believe but keeping it down to earth with lyrics we hear and see in Boyfriend that keep it funny and cool like "chilling' by the fire while we eatin' fondue" and "I can be your Buzz Lightyear fly across the globe." See, ridiculous but catchy. But if he is going for an older sound having him and a bunch of other people who are young adults but look like they're 14 driving cars is not the way to portray he's older. Seriously, these kids looked very young but I know they have to be around my age and I’m only turning 20 in November.
I like the song but that video was ridiculous. The only thing that remotely went to the song was the singing in the girls ear because you do get the impression JB is trying to whisper naughty secrets but instead he's making plans to treat a girl right, which is kind of cool and still sexy all the same. But I give Selena some cred through, trusting her man to stay true. JB, you better not screw up, or if she pulls a Tiger Wood’s Wife on you I’ll be buying her the golf clubs. Savvy?
Until next silly video, According to Michael III, Selena, and all the other couples with a celeb, have some serious trust...most of the time. Some of them and you know the ones so I’m going to name them, act stupid for the attention.
—Michael III
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