14 DAY TRIAL // After months of negative media attention for his alleged out of control behavior (and partying), Justin Bieber is now under fire for allegations of being a racist, after a video of him making a racist joke emerged online. One day after his apology, a second video has appeared.
The Sun has it, the New York Daily News reports. The British tab was also the media outlet that revealed the first video, shot when Justin was about 14 or 15. It doesn’t say when the second one was filmed, but it mentions that he was a “child star.”
According to the NY Daily News, Bieber, wearing a dark blue shirt and dog tag, is shown singing about joining the Ku Klux Klan while changing the words to his 2009 song “One Less Lonely Girl” to include the N-word.
Apparently, he thought the song would sound better if it was turned to “One Less Lonely [N-word].”
“The latest clip shows the star giggle away as he sings the twisted version of his hit song, a video of which has some 203 million views on YouTube. A girl can be heard cackling in the background as Bieber spits out the slur and mentions the KKK,” the NY Daily News notes.
“Unfortunately this is the devastating reality of how Justin has behaved and reveals his attitude toward such a deeply emotive subject. People need to see this. Normal kids in society do not make these kind of jokes. He is protected by a network of staff, but the camera doesn’t lie. This is the real Justin,” a source tells The Sun.
Just yesterday, hours after the first video leaked, Justin issued a sincere-sounding apology blaming age and immaturity for his racist joke. He also said that he was not racist, obviously, and explained the existence of the video by saying that it was shot at a time when he had not yet fully understood the power of words and how much hurt they can cause in people.
In the same breath, Justin promised that he was no longer that inexperienced and insensitive boy, and assured his fans and whoever had been offended by his joke that they would never see this kind of behavior again. Clearly, he wasn’t counting on a second leak.
Justin, now 20, has had a very rough year in the press as his attempts to prove he’s a grownup have landed him more often in the headlines for bad things. Word has it that his partying is out of control and that he drinks and does drugs, to the point where he might already have developed addictions.
The worst part is, according to reports, that he’s surrounded at all times only by “yes” people, the one ingredient necessary to the famous recipe of young stars spiraling out of control.
With all this chatter, Justin maintains that he’s the same guy as before, and that his focus remains his music and his fans. We assume his fans will continue to love and support him even in the eventuality this second video emerges online.