IF Justin Bieber wants to shake his growing reputation as an ungrateful brat someone needs to teach him how to use a watch not a spray can.
Bieber was 70 minutes late coming on stage at Rod Laver Arena last night. In case he has failed to notice 95% of his audience are schoolkids.
Finally gracing fans with your presence at 9:40pm on a Monday, meaning your show finishes at 11pm on a school night is just plain disrespectful and ignorant.
To the non-Belieber, the Canadian teen 's Britney Spears-style post-fame meltdown moment appears imminent.
His Believe tour this year has made more headlines for what happened off stage - from using restaurant buckets as his personal urinal to being photographed near brothels and his oh-so-rebellious graffiti habit.
Justin Bieber performs for a capacity audience at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. Picture: Tony Gough Source: News Limited
Bieber is living the struggle to transition from child star - while Miley Cyrus is wrecking balls, Bieber is wrecking walls.
Inside Rod Laver Arena, however, he's preaching to the converted. The Beliebers have not lost the faith.
It may be past many girls' bedtimes but that doesn't stop the bone-drilling screams. It's hard to gain credibility when you get more screams for taking your jacket off than for your songs. Asking fans if they liked his new tattoo also measured on the Richter scale.
Bieber's live show is a generic concoction of Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake, mimicking their dance moves and crotch grabs but sadly missing their pop classics. However the white leather skirt/pant creation was more LaToya than Michael Jackson.
It's not until the Bieber acoustic ballads where you get to hear some audibly live vocals. His Motown tribute Die in Your Arms shows the kid has a sweet voice when you peel back all the try-hard layers of what he calls 'swag'.
Justin Bieber performs for a capacity audience at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. Picture: Tony Gough Source: News Limited
Being in Australia so soon after the One Direction tour, it's hard not to compare the pop rivals. And Bieber loses.
1D played five times as many shows here. And their hi-tech arena production swamps Bieber's, whose flimsy pyrotechnics looked like budget homemade fireworks.
While One Direction connect and engage directly with fans by reading out their Tweets during their show, Bieber just seems to spit out rehearsed self-empowerment cliches ("do any of you have a dream?") that sound like he read them in a fortune cookie. Maybe in one of the restaurants where he relieves himself in the kitchen.
Justin Bieber performs for a capacity audience at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. Picture: Tony Gough Source: News Limited
Luckily for Bieber he's not here to win over new fans with this tour, just deafen the existing ones, because as all his major hits are kept towards the end. So you need to wait even longer to hear Beauty and a Beat, As Long As You Love Me, Boyfriend and Baby, his cheesy bubblegum first hit still kept for last.
Still the harsh fact remains - if his patience-testing behaviour continues today's Bieber could be tomorrow's Leif Garrett. Remember him? Exactly.
Bieber performs at Rod Laver Arena tonight.
Justin Bieber performs for a capacity audience at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. Picture: Tony Gough Source: News Limited
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