They should make T-shirts with that logo on it. I'd wear one, and I'll bet half the parents who were at the Maryland State Fairgrounds last night for Bieber-mania would, too.
Bieber fever is real, folks. My ears still hurt from all the screaming. And I woke up with his hit "Baby" stuck in my head.
I had two stories in today's paper, a scene piece about people at the fair, and a Bieber concert review. And here's a photo gallery from the show, courtesy of Sun photog Gene Sweeney Jr.
For some reason, Bieber kept dashing off back stage between songs and then reappearing a minute or two later. Meanwhile, an a capella group would sing some pop hits, or the video screens would display a montage of Bieber photos and video. Then he would pop back out -- sometimes in a new outfit, sometimes not -- and play another song. It felt like Bieber was a guest at his own show. Bieber sang most of his songs, and lip-synched one or two ...
Of course, none of this mattered to the throng of 12,500 shrieking teenagers and their parents. They were pumped just to be in the same zip code as the pop phenom.
This wasn't my best review (due to print deadlines, I only had 30 minutes to write it), but at least it's finished. If you were at the fair yesterday, I was the dude sitting on the grass to the side, hunched over a laptop, furiously typing. I would have written more on my phone, but it got cold around 9:30 p.m., and it was hard for me to hit the little buttons with frigid fingers.
OK, back to holiday chilling. Happy Labor Day, everybody!
(Baltimore Sun photo by Gene Sweeney Jr.)