One-hit-wonders come along every few years and reside in our collective conscious only for as long as their tiny song climbs up Billboard’s top 40.  When they’re gone, they’re gone, like the ephemeral smell of a freshly sharpened pencil.  They might pop up on a where-are-they-now special. Or they might shock the world by coming out of the closet like Ricky Martin.   But mostly, they age like bad cheese in the pop culture dust bin, along with Neneh Cherry and Rick and Dee-Lite.

Not so Justin Drew Bieber. In a scant year, the Canadian comet has rocketed to the tip-top of every chart.  At parties from Willliamsburg, Brooklyn, to Eagle Rock, California, when the conversation turns to cultural “humongos,” his name is on the tip of every tastemaker’s tongue. Justin Bieber is not a pop culture flash in the pan. No.  He is part of the landscape, as iconic as the Empire State Building, Rushmore, or The Rolling Stones.

Speaking of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards was famous for his hair-do.  Every 10 or 15 years, it comes back in style.  Like Elvis’s pompadour, or the Beatles mop-tops, or Frank Sinatra’s glorious toupée, perhaps nothing is so much an indicator of true fame as a celebrity’s hair style that becomes eponymous with its arbiter.  And I am here to tell you, that just as a man can walk into any barber shop in the world and request a Cesar cut, so too will we one day walk into any salon and say “Do me a Bieber.”

Hail Bieber!

Kieth -- The Rocker Cut

Elvis -- The Pompadour

Franks Sinatra's Cesear Cut was really a rad wig

Justin Bieber Live, sporting the famous Bieber cut. Nice shades, Biebs!!!!

Here’s a little sumthin-sumthin for all y’all Bieber boners out there!!!:

And Here’s Justin Bieber singing.  Brilliant.

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