The Black Keys' Patrick Carney on Justin Bieber: He's "Irresponsible" and a "Moron"

There’s been an odd sort of feud between The Black Keys‘ Patrick Carney and Justin Bieber brewing over the past year. What started with a 2013 statement from Carney about Bieber receiving a Grammy escalated into Bieber tweeting that Carney should be “slapped around,” which then fizzled into Carney engaging in tweeted warfare with the online Belieber community. Now, the Black Keys drummer has a great deal more to say. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Carney gave the following statements regarding the 20-year-old popstar:

“Justin Bieber, like a f*cking irresponsible asshole, sicced 40 million Twitter followers on me because I paid him a compliment he didn’t understand” … “I mean, Justin Bieber is a f*cking moron. And that’s the gist of what I was saying. And then he goes and says I should be slapped? Honestly, I feel bad for him. Every single person who works with him should fucking be embarrassed that they don’t. . . No one is doing him any favors, you know? And honestly, I don’t dislike his music. I don’t listen to his music, but he needs to not conduct himself that way. Like, really, you make millions of dollars playing music, you should feel fucking lucky” … “If you’re a 34-year-old f*cking loser like me, and you go on Justin Bieber’s Twitter account like a total pervert every time that he gets in trouble, you should look at his tweets the next day. It’s always like, ‘I love you guys so much, always believe, never stop believing.’ He’s feeding them the Kool-Aid more and more. He pours it on heavy, though. It’s so manipulative! And whoever taught him that that was OK, whoever’s watching him and is like ‘that manipulation is acceptable,’ should be really ashamed of themselves.”

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Source: Rolling Stone