Merry October, Justin!

Somehow or other yesterday I discovered that Justin Bieber has a new song.
This wasn't really surprising in and of itself. But I enjoy Justin Bieber for his smooth, girly voice, catchy tunes, and brain-numbingly pleasant overall atmosphere that sometimes also includes wicked awesome fun dances.

Case in point. Just ignore the fact a 25 year old woman felt up his 16-year old self 

in the beginning and it's supposed to be sexy.

I recognize that most of the pleasure I derive from Justin Bieber music is completely guilty. I think I've got some evidence on my side with the dancing thing, but other than that, I apologize for existing. 

Key of Awesome will show me no mercy.

To return to the point, though, Justin Bieber has a new song. I listened to it, and several things occurred to me.

Nice haircut, P.S.

Firstly, this is a Christmas song and it came out on October 18th. I mean, yeah, we always get a freakishly early start on celebrating holidays, but that's for holidays like Valentines and Easter. They come around when we're sick of snow and not having any holidays, so we need more excuses to go buy consumables from the comfort food group and eat them for extended periods of time. 

We've still got Halloween and Thanksgiving between Bieber and Christmas, here, though.

Secondly, this song sounds like something off of my Jason Mraz/Colbie Callait/hipster/ukelele Pandora station. Usher isn't even rapping sweetly in the snowy trees. I like the sound, but it makes the fact Justin's still referring to Selena Gomez (I presume that's her, but don't know) as "Shawty" that much funnier. For the record, I wish I had a "Shawty" so I could call her that. As terms of endearment go, it's one I would adopt both because I am very white, and also because I don't remember where I was going with this. 

Thirdly, ignoring the usual trite "screw the world and normal, healthy social interactions, I've got a Shawty!" message, the video itself bothers me. It's the girl who seems to be guilting Justin into a withdrawl from the world. Granted, he gets to make out with her because of it, and far be it from me to disparage that, but still; he appears to kind of also want to hang with his folks and play in the snow. 

Through the entire video, if Justin's not paying complete attention to her, Shawty looks like she just dropped her soy latte and it's ruined her world. He's not playing in the winter snow, chillin' with his folks, or makin' a list because she'll cry if he does. My main question is why she can't do any of those things with him. Everybody could be happy!

Check out the scene at the outdoor cafe when the blonde comes up to chat with Justin. Granted, the whispering in the ear is a little unsettling for somebody with anything like a jealous disposition (not necessarily the creepy kind of jealous, though that would make it worse), but otherwise it looked like a pretty platonic meeting of old friends. And there's Shawty sulking over her latte, playing the victim, and refusing to join in. 

Blonde shows up a couple more times, but by the end you realize she's just a good-natured girl with another attractive boyfriend who happens to come across as a bit of a flirt with other guys because she's semi-clueless. There is no malicious intent, Shawty, we promise. In fact, your boyfriend has spent the entire 3 minutes and 11 seconds singing about how he wants to chill with you instead of doing anything vaguely related to Christmas with anybody else.

On the other hand, snow at night is perfectly beautiful in that really heart-wrenching way that makes me emo and needy, too. So maybe I shouldn't be so hard on her.