Justin Bieber is a serious adult artist

Justin Bieber now a serious 'adult' artist after winning Best International Male at Brit Awards

How could the monkey-bothering, tantrum-throwing child star have beaten credible names to the podium?
Adam Sherwin Media Correspondent @adamsherwin10 Thursday 25 February 2016

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/justin-bieber-brit-awards-2016-best-international-male-serious-artist-a6893776.html

Justin Bieber is a now a serious “adult” artist. That’s the shocking conclusion which left the music industry reeling after the Canadian star won Best International Male at the Brits.

How could the monkey-bothering, tantrum-throwing, saggy pant-wearing child star have beaten credible names like rapper Kendrick Lamar, Drake and Father John Misty to the winner’s podium? Just by turning up and bringing his attendant media circus perhaps? That’s not how the Brit Awards works of course.

Votes are distributed among artists, retailers, DJs and other industry tastemakers so for Bieber to triumph it must have something to do with the former bad boy’s music.

The reinvention of Bieber with his Purpose album is one of the most stunning turnarounds in pop. Packed with earworms, the tropical vibe of "What Do You Mean?" lodged itself at the top of the charts, followed by Skrillex collaboration "Sorry" and Ed Sheeran co-write, "Love Yourself".

Listeners embraced Purpose’s “coming of age” theme and Bieber’s clever assimilation of EDM, R&B and acoustic strumming into a contemporary pop mix primed for Spotify playlists.

The biggest change is within Bieber himself. The 21 year-old now presents himself as a humble Christian, who abandoned his “lost” party days after hearing a voice from a higher power.

A Bieber without the Ferrari crashes might make for a a duller individual but as Kanye is finding out to his cost, a little humility allied to serious pop smarts is the best way to retain a seat at music’s top table.

The Mortal Instruments : City Of Bones Analysis

The Mortal Instruments : City Of Bones Analysis
by Cassandra Clare
the analysis is from Scmoop.com
this is my all time fav story, TMI :))) n this is just the analysis of book 1.

ANALYSIS: SETTING
Where It All Goes Down
City of Bones takes Clary to a variety of locales, some exotic, some mundane. But as Clary soon learns, even the mundane has magic in it.

New York City
Clary's story opens in what might be, to some, a magical place of wonder: New York City. Heard of it?

Well, to Clary, it's nothing special. So what if it's one of the biggest cities in the world, filled with everything you could possibly imagine? She's lived there her whole life. For half the book, she doesn't voice any sort of awe or appreciation for the urban jungle. She's too occupied gazing at Jace and marveling at the secret wonders the city holds: Shadowhunter strongholds, demon lairs hidden from mortal eyes by magical glamor, and the haunting Silent City hidden under the New York Marble Cemetery, one of the oldest public cemeteries in the city.

Her slowly emerging Sight changes her view of the city, letting her see these previously hidden things. But her adventure also gives her a new perspective on the city. Quite literally. When she flies over the city on one of the vampire's bio-bikes with Jace, she sees the city in a whole new light (before that whole new light—the sunlight—causes the bike to come crashing down, anyway): "It was lovely, [Clary] could see that: the city
rising up beside her like a towering forest of silver and glass" (15.73).

She's scared though, never having flown in a plane before, so she doesn't get a good long look at it. By the end of the book, she's overcome this fear. Flying over the city, Clary "kept her eyes open, so that she could see it all" (Epilogue.176). She sees the true beauty of the city, and everything she had taken for granted: "It was spread out before her like a carelessly