Vanilla Ice predicts Bieber’s exit from spotlight

John Blaise
July 22, 2011
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There’s trying to steal someone’s shine, there’s hate, and there’s telling it like it is. It’s hard to definitively say which stance Vanilla Ice is taking towards the teenage sensation Justin Bieber with his latest comments.

 

According to MSNBC Vanilla Ice, aka, Rob Van Winkle said Bieber’s fame will be short-lived and the he’ll be forgotten very soon.
Now wait a minute, this is coming from Vanilla Ice, the guy who lit the hip-hop scene on fire with Ice Ice Baby, a song that if we’re all truthful, we still get down and to and we all know the words. But we should also remember that Vanilla Ice himself just disappeared. His songs lived on, but he virtually fell off the face of the Earth.

His cult following would have you believe that Suge Knight from Death Row Records had something to do with that, but the fact remains, Van Winkle may know a little something or two about quick fame.

Vanilla told the Huffington Post, “I mean, I did ‘Ice Ice Baby’ when I was 16. So I can kind of relate a bit…Sold over a hundred million records. And I had a weekend that lasted about three years, and I didn’t know who I was, what’s my purpose in life.”

Gotta hate those weekends that last three years. I guess the rest of us don’t know what that means, pretty sure most of us would at least consider giving up an appendage for a three year weekend.

Vanilla told the Huffington Post that he sees Bieber heading down the same path, “My prediction about Bieber is that he’s going to go through one of those weekends that lasts a few years because he’s had such success as a child act…Then something else new will come along and he’ll be forgotten and he can try to put all the pieces back together, so it’s going to be entertaining to watch.”

At first you want to call Van Winkle a hater, but when you really think about, how many child pop or hip-hop acts maintain their stardom? Aside from Michael Jackson, I can think of just one off the top of my head who made it big as a youngster and bigger as an adult, Usher.

Coincidentally, Usher has largely been credited for putting Bieber on the scene.

But the pop and hip-hop genre popularity is difficult to maintain as a child because inevitably you age and those 12 year old girls you used to be singing to, you lose touch with what they’re all about and they find the next 15 or 16 year old heart throb to love and stalk. Isn’t that how it works?

Though nobody should be listening to Vanilla Ice unless he’s singing or rapping, what do you think? Is Vanilla Ice’s prediction about Bieber legit?

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  • Ed

    It's an valid prediction. But then again, Mr. Ice made an opinion (and he seems to stand ground on what he's saying). For my part, only time can decide this issue…

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