THE BIEBS

Justin Bieber covers February's Vanity Fair.

“Music is music, and I’m definitely influenced by Michael Jackson and Boyz II Men and people who were black artists—that’s what I like. But I like their voices and I like how they entertain—it’s not about what color they are,” confesses the teen to VF's Lisa Robinson.

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Oh,  and a month can't go by without something on the Kennedy clan in Vanity Fair, natch.

Notice one of the headlines:  The Kennedy Inauguration.

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Gawker's take on the cover:

Magazine time capsule Vanity Fair took a break from dead old ladies and put modern teen sensation Justin Bieber on the cover. Of course they depict him as a '50s heartthrob listening to records on ye olde phonograph machine. Ugh.

Because Vanity Fair can't process anything that has happened after the Kennedy administration, the mag paints Justin Bieber as Eddie Fisher.....

....The whole things smacks of a bygone era of sock hops and Coke in glass bottles. The only thing that's missing is a varsity sweater with a huge letter on it. My favorite thing about the shoot are the 20 Bieber-obsessed tween girls they dolled up in poodle skirts and sweater sets to chase him around.

Touche!!