“never say never” is number 3. of all time.
There’s no doubting that Justin Bieber is talented, I’ll give him that. But would I say that he’s nearly as talented as his accreditation shows? Absolutely not. As though the Biebs having the #1 album in the country wasn’t enough, it’s also the first remix album to hold the top spot since Jennifer Lopez’s 2002 “J to tha L-O!: The Remixes.” But that’s not all, he also is the first artist in history to have 2 albums in the top 5 of the Billboard 200 charts. So then the kid goes and makes a documentary about his 16 short years on this planet and basically calls it an inspirational story to follow your dreams. But lets face it: it’s only an “inspirational story” because most people don’t think 16 years is enough life to live to have a documentary about your life. And trust me, I’m one of them. Said documentary, Never Say Never is also a concert movie, much like the ones the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana did not that long ago. But now this documentary has taken the spot of the third highest-grossing documentary of all time with a to-date grossing of almost $64.2 million, following only 2005’s March of the Penguins and Michael Moore’s 2004 Fahrenheit 9/11, which have grossed $77 million and $119 million respectively. Never Say Never soared past some of the most popular documentaries of recent years including Super Size Me, Moore’s Bowling for Columbine and former Vice President Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. The Bieber documentary has already taken down Moor’s Fahrenheit 9/11 as the highest-grossing opening weekend for a documentary by more than $6 million ($29.5 million vs. $23 million) and now there’s even Oscar buzz surrounding the 17-year-old pop sensation. According to many sources, Never Say Never and Justin Bieber were hot topics at many of the Oscar after-parties.
So here’s what I have to say about it. First of all, I’m not a documentary fan, but if I have to watch one, it’s gonna be one about a person much like Drake and Nicki Minaj’s hour-long specials for MTV (Better Than Good Enough and My Time Now respectively) or Jack’s Mannequin’s Dear Jack. I’m not gonna watch any of Michael Moore’s shit, because let’s face it, he’s a fat scum bag who bashes but can’t take the heat. He’s probably where the idea of Super Size Me came from anyway. But I digress, I guess by definition Never Say Never is exactly the kind of documentary I’m willing to spend 2 hours watching, but to know that I would be single-handedly helping an artist who has had such great success and doesn’t really deserve it, makes me not want to watch it. And I’m pretty sure we all know that if all the tweens were limited to watching Never Say Never once, it wouldn’t have even come close to grossing $50 million. So, JBiebs, you’re talented, I’ll give you that. But try living a little, take a page out of Miley’s book, smoke some salvia and live a little before you make a documentary.
