1. He is fearless: His most defining and heroic trait is that he moves into each moment blindly sure of his own destiny. For each time in your own life that you have delayed your own success, he was already busy manifesting his.

2. He is not a duplicate: His story is the first, entirely original success story of his kind. There is no other pop star of his magnitude that can say they were organically discovered online without attempting for fame or accomplishment. He is now famous for the same reason Kate Moss is. Someone saw something in him due to a factor beyond control – the “it” factor.

The Beatles may have given birth to super fans, but that is no reason to immediately compare and think that when a pop star has super fans they are second best in a super fan competition. Lou Pearlman and boy bands may have exploited them, but that is no reason to think that every time a pop star has teenage groupies they are doing something wrong. The fans are this way because their hearts have been ripped open. 

 3. He taught himself music out of a love for music: He taught himself how to sing and play the drums/guitar. He can dance, because he can dance. No special school for artists. No Mickey Mouse factory. No stage mom.

 4. He did not chase fame. Fame came to him: Don’t ever doubt the universe’s plan. The world is working in perfect order, and the world chose for his video out of all the other videos in the world to find its way onto the computer screen of one of the most genius and promising young managers in the entertainment world. Let it be.

 5. Hard work pays off. Period.: All opinions aside, if you work that hard you succeed. Try it.

 6. His voice is not manufactured: You need proof that he can sing? No problem. Watch any or all of the clips of him standing side by side in harmony with Boys II Men. I think that should do it.

 7. His charity to the world will be revolutionary: He is inspiring an entire generation to have pure hearts, to be good people, and to give far more than they can ever receive – without losing his cool.  I can’t think of a better way to be of influence.

 8.  He makes pop music without ruining music: I see you’re ready to debate. I’ll end with this…. While most pop music is designed for the lowest common denominator, I will remind you there is something okay about it being a ‘common denominator’. Pop is short for popular. It is music meant to reach the masses. It is what the most people will respond to at any given time. Yes, it is manipulated to such a degree that we aren’t even choosing it anymore. BUT, if this is what has become of pop music I respect any artist that can sing, play, write, and dance completely on their own while being authentic to who they are as a person. There is a thin between working within the machine and being a product of the machine. Justin Beiber, with his continued fearlessness to be himself, has paved a new way for the next wave of the teenage phenomenon. 

- Stefanie