Last night I had the pleasure of viewing the above video on my friends Facebook wall. It is a known fact that Justin Bieber has some of the craziest fans of any new artist recently. As we talked about in class yesterday, after what was thought to be Bieber’s award went to Esperanza Spalding, fans went crazy.
This controversy has so many people talking. People took to defacing her Wikipedia site as well as using various other outputs such as YouTube to express their emotions about the situation. Someone decided to change her middle name to “Quesadilla” as well as noting several times that nobody has ever heard of her. The Detroit Press used the phrase, “Esperanza Who?” Even NPR decided to get in on the action with a piece titled “Wait, Who is this Esperanza Spalding?”
People need to put this to rest. Even after Spalding and Bieber sat down for an interview together people still could not let it go. Bieber will get over it so stop your crying, it’s embarrassing. Popular and cliché music does not always win in the end.
The Grammy’s this year proved that music can win no matter what the fan base is. This was proven not only with Spalding’s win but with the huge win for Arcade Fire as well, a band who people have “never heard of” even though they have blown up everywhere this year. Music came through in the end for what seems like the first time in a long time, and that’s something everyone should be happy about.
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