Meanwhile, those homemade YouTube videos had been spotted by aspiring music executive Scooter Braun. Mallette, a devout Christian, was hesitant because Braun is Jewish. God, I gave him to you, she is reported to have said. You could send me a Christian man, a Christian label! But after praying with church elders, she decided to hand Braun the reins of her sons career. And Braun had a strategy ready to roll. I wanted to build him up more on YouTube first, he has said. We supplied more content. I said: Justin, sing like theres no one in the room. But lets not use expensive cameras. Well give it to kids, let them do the work, so they feel like its theirs.
And they did. Braun knew that you make a teenage heart-throb by polishing up the boy next door and getting him to sing sweetly of love, at an age when the real boys next door are only lying around grunting. This was how David Cassidys name ended up being scrawled inside little hearts on thousands of pencil cases in the 1970s. As part of the fictional Partridge Family, David Cassidy lived in suburbia and practised pop songs in a garage. The same thing happened again in the 1980s with Jason Donovan: one minute he was hanging out on Ramsay Street in Neighbours, and the next he was bopping about on Top of the Pops to a tween-friendly Stock Aitken Waterman beat.
These tween crushes give girls a safe way of dealing with their emotions when theyre laying down their teddy bears but not quite ready for real boys. They study the objects of their affection as though getting an A in fandom will win them the hearts of their posterboys. In recent interviews about her girlhood crush on David Cassidy, the novelist and Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson admits to the hours she spent poring over fanzines. She wore only brown for months because shed read that that was his favourite colour. And 21st-century girls in stadium crowds today yell out the name of Biebers dog, Sam, in the hope that their dedication to the trivia of his life will earn them a glance.
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