Global Panic, Local Hysteria: How Justin Bieber Became the UN of Pop Collateral Damage
When Justin Bieber finally lands in a city—any city, really—governments issue the sort of travel advisories normally reserved for coup attempts or cholera outbreaks. Jakarta’s traffic police pre-print contraflow maps; Buenos Aires hotels jack up the price of bottled water like it’s liquid palladium; Lagos radio hosts debate whether the ensuing stampede counts toward daily…