Rolling Stone post arcticle featuring Billie Joe interview on Dookie Anniversary

[Guest]

I bet that every single person complaining about that cover is gonna buy two copies of the mag, one for reading and one for wanking.

[Fuzz]

I freely admit that I'm going to buy one for wanking, Bieber looks fucking FINE

Seriously, what's wrong with these people. His music may be whatever, his behavior dumb, but seriously, he has a great body o.O

[DookieLukie]

Just Bieber is arrogant and selfish. His personality nullifies any attractiveness he possesses.

[Anaïs.]

Except it doesn't. His entire body is flawless.

Are we seeing the same body?

[Anaïs.]

Yes, but I'm attracted to men and you're not (as far as I know? )

I can still appreciate a good-looking male—Brad Pitt and Benedict Cumberbatch, my god—and he is not it.

[Spike]

Except it doesn't. His entire body is flawless.

He has some of the worst tattoos in the world and his belly button looks like a sperm having a shit.

[DookieLukie]

I can still appreciate a good-looking male—Brad Pitt and Benedict Cumberbatch, my god—and he is not it.

Benedict Cumberbatch?? Gag..bleh...cough

[Anaïs.]

Bieber > Cumberbatch, don't even start with me

Benedict Cumberbatch?? Gag..bleh...cough

You two are both uncultured swine and are going to Cumberhell.

[Spike]

Cucumberpatch always looks like he's got a cold. None of these people are Richey Edwards, so gtfo.

[Gwen Stacy]

Anyone else excited as hell to hear a grittier and more powerful Nuclear Family? I love that song.

[Whatsinaname]

Seriously? I hope you all are being sarcastic. Rolling Stone has lost a lot of respect from us older fans, even more so now. I don't find this amusing at all.

[WhiteTim]

Seriously? I hope you all are being sarcastic. Rolling Stone has lost a lot of respect from us older fans, even more so now. I don't find this amusing at all.

Lmao

Why? It's business...

Let's be honest here

Who is going to sell more magazines

A 19 year old boy who has 40+ million twitter followers has MILLIONS of teenage girls fan base

Or a group of 40 year old guys whose last major mainstream hit was AI talking about what appers to be Dookie

Just business

[Whatsinaname]

I know what you're saying Tim. Just business. I'm just infuriated that they chose this cover now. Why? Intentional? Otherwise I wouldn't care who's on the cover. It's just very tasteless and disrespectful to GD with that cover. Just my opinion of course.

[Mar]

It's just a shame that, as much as we'd like them to be the cream of the crop, RS basically only reserves non-current artists/actors or non-political covers for legacy artists (Dylan, Stones, Beatles, dead artists, etc.). They're just not at that point yet where the magazine is just gonna put the band on the cover for shits and giggles talking about a 20-year-old album (honestly, I'm still surprised they gave Billie the cover last year, as opposed to a secondary feature). But maybe someday.

As for Bieber, it's not his first time on the cover and it's not the first time a "lesser" artist (identify the artists as you will) has graced the cover. They've gotta sell and they've gotta be current and relevant. When you've got 24 covers a year, not all of them can be winners, sadly. (I honestly usually only read the political/current event features, anyway )

[Whatsinaname]

Thanks Mar for your perspective, I'll try to settle down now! We did get a Billie Joe cover this year so all is good

[DookieLukie]

I know what you're saying Tim. Just business. I'm just infuriated that they chose this cover now. Why? Intentional? Otherwise I wouldn't care who's on the cover. It's just very tasteless and disrespectful to GD with that cover. Just my opinion of course.

How is it disrespectful?

[Hermione]

Just Bieber is arrogant and selfish. His personality nullifies any attractiveness he possesses.

This (plus he's like, a child to me, lol). However I can't believe how many people are getting their knickers in a twist over a magazine cover with a teen pop singer on it . Newsflash, Rolling Stone covers all kinds of music and music stars, especially those who are currently big in the public eye. It's not "disrespectful" to feature articles about different artists/celebrities in a magazine.

[jumpsalty]

It's almost as if people are worried being seen buying a magazine with justin bieber on the cover will ruin their reputation, that it's not 'punk' enough

[Marina86]

Can anyone upload some scans? I can't find ANY English magazines here

[solongfromthestars]

I don't care whether Bieber's on the cover or not and RS can do whatever they want, I'm just not totally keen on buying something that has any half-naked teen clutching their genitals on it. I think I'll wait for scans (until I think "oh fuck it", go into WHSmith and promise a baffled cashier I'm not interested in... that).

[desertrose]

Got the magazine, great article! No way to scan them sorry.

[Sanity Loan]

Got the magazine, great article! No way to scan them sorry.

Cell phone photos

[stuart_and_the_ave]

Got the magazine, great article! No way to scan them sorry.

How long is the article, is it a lot more than the preview we got?

[localinsomniac]

I know what you're saying Tim. Just business. I'm just infuriated that they chose this cover now. Why? Intentional? Otherwise I wouldn't care who's on the cover. It's just very tasteless and disrespectful to GD with that cover. Just my opinion of course.

If anything, it's a tongue-in-cheek reference to the iHeart incident. But I'm sure it's coincidental.

[Heather.]

I don't even see how putting JB on the cover would even be considered disrespectful to Green Day. (And I guarantee you somewhere in that issue the likes of Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones are all mentioned. Is the cover disrespecting them, too?) Just because Billie name-dropped Justin Beiber in a drunken rant once doesn't mean he is particularly meaningful to the Green Day psyche. Billie saying "I'm not fucking Justin Beiber" at iHeart once doesn't mean Green Day has a particular vendetta against him. Billie himself said he hasn't rewatched that rant, so he probably doesn't even recall mentioning Beiber. Fans have attached this quote to the Green Day mantra and built up an anti-Beiber philosophy around Green Day that frankly doesn't exist. Sure, Green Day hates "pop crap" and I'm sure has nothing good to say about Beiber. It doesn't make it "insensitive" to put him on the cover and include a Green Day article inside, though. I'm sure none of the Rolling Stone writers particularly like Beiber either, they're just reporting on a story. And Green Day was in no way expected to get this cover instead, so it's really a non-issue.

We all hate Beiber, but that's because he sucks, not because he has done anything to Green Day.