Justin Bieber's Biggest Moments of 2016 as Depicted By His Song Titles

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Justin Bieber is certainly feeling 22...but this post isn't about quoting Taylor Swift .

Every year since his 2009 debut in the music world has been a year for the Biebs, and 2016 did not disappoint. He broke records, won major awards, dated plenty of hot ladies (and still found himself involved with Selena Gomez), was at the center of a few controversies and so on and so forth. Needless to say (and whether you like it or not), anything that was Bieber-related was newsworthy in the pop culture world.

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Thus, as we count down to the New Year, it's pretty much essential we look back at some of the 22-year-old's biggest moments over the last 12 months. But worry not! We won't bore you by simply listing them. 

Here they are, as depicted by his song titles:

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One Time: Remember that one time the Biebs took home his first and only Grammy (thus far)? It happened at the 2016 show in January—a huge nod for the singer in the music world! 

Be Alright: After scoring eight (!!!) Guiness Book of World Records for his album Purpose, it's safe to say Bieber is going to be alright when it comes to his career spectrum.

All Around the World: He embarked all around the world in March for his Purpose World Tour, which just ended last month.

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Catching Feelings: This year did not disappoint Bieber when it came to the ladies. He was not only linked to Hailey Baldwin for several months, but he also had romance rumors swirling with Sofia Richie—they hung out for a couple weeks—and Kourtney Kardashian, though it was never actually confirmed if they were more than just friends.

Not to mention, he supposedly rekindled with Chantel Jeffries one night and even went on a date with Transformers actress, Nicole Peltz.

Love Yourself: Despite the many flings, Bieber used the year to focus on loving himself and handling his responsibilities, declaring he's still single in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres earlier this month. 

He also told GQ in February, "I don't want to put anyone in a position where they feel like I'm only theirs, only to be hurt in the end. Right now in my life, I don't want to be held down by anything," he revealed. "I already have a lot that I have to commit to. A lot of responsibilities. I don't want to feel like the girl I love is an added responsibility."

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Roller Coaster: Despite promising to remain single or seeing other people, Biebs still found himself aboard the roller coaster that is his relationship with ex Selena Gomez. The couple reportedly rekindled in March—he even posted a throwback photo of them kissing—but it seems they may have ended on bad terms. In August, they got in a very public Instagram comment feud, which resulted in Bieber deleting the social media platform all together.

Mark My Words: When angry commenters left spiteful messages on pictures of him and Sofia Richie, the Biebs threatened, "I'm gonna make my Instagram private if you guys don't stop the hate this is getting out of hand. If you guys are really fans you wouldn't be so mean to people that I like." 

Well, he certainly followed up on his word. In fact, during a concert last month, he claimed"Instagram is for the devil."

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What Do Ü Mean: Other than his escape from Instagram, Bieber only continued to pull away from fans and cause a bit of controversy with his remarks and actions during his Purpose World Tour.

For example, in May, he announced that he would no longer be taking pictures with fans in public. "It has gotten to the point that people won't even say hi to me or recognize me as a human," he explained. "I feel like a zoo animal, and I wanna be able to keep my sanity."

The news came shortly after announcing his cancellation of all meet-and-greets. At the very beginning of the tour in March, he made the announcement, telling fans that while he enjoys meeting people, he ends up "feeling so drained and filled with so much of other people's spiritual energy that I end up so drained and unhappy."

As his tour continued, Bieber got into the habit of making controversial outbursts over fans who were screaming at his concerts.

"I appreciate all the support, I appreciate love, I appreciate the kind things. But the screaming in these breaks has got to stop. Please and thank you," he said during a show in October. "I don't think it's necessary when I'm trying to say something and you guys are screaming. I feel like I wanna connect with you."

When fans continued to scream, he dropped the mic and walked off stage.

Needless to say, his actions stirred up quite a bit of confusion, causing fans everywhere to ask: What do you mean, Biebs?!

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Sorry: In October, the 22-year-old apologized to his fans (yes, again) for his latest bout of outbursts. 

"People tend to want to shut you down..People try to twist things," he wrote in a since-deleted note on Twitter. "But I simply feel like, if I didn't use this platform to say how I truly feel, and if I didn't use this platform to be the man that I know I am, and speak from what's in my heart, then I'm doing myself injustice, and I'm not doing anybody in this audience any justice."

He continued, "There's going to be times where I say the wrong thing, because I'm human...I don't say the right thing all the time because if that was the case then I'd be a robot, and I'm just, I'm not a robot."

After explaining that there are going to be days when he's sad or mad, he concluded, "I just appreciate you guys tonight, listening to me and understanding, and rocking with me. You guys are truly amazing."

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Fall: While Bieber's tour saw quite a few high points, it also came with some low points, too...literally. He fell a couple times during the Purpose World Tour, but the most famous of them all came when he fell into a huge hole. "Good thing I'm like a cat and landed on my feet," he told the crowd. "That scared the f--k outta me."

Flatline: Spoiler alert! The singer ends up being killed in Zoolander 2, uttering "Oh, fudge" when faced with a group of assassins on a motorcycle. Things got very graphic for a solid three minutes before he finally flatlined (are you getting tired of these puns yet?).

Bad Day: In one of his less flattering moments of the year, Bieber got into a fist fight in Cleveland after game three of the NBA finals. We're still not sure what prompted the scuffle, but Biebs did not back down.

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Cold Water: The Biebs' booty and cold water have gone hand-in-hand in 2016.

It appeared that every time the singer was near a body of water, he couldn't help but strip down. For example, he got naked for Clash magazine in February, wearing just a hat as he posed beside the ocean. Then, a month later, he shared this photo of his bare butt while camping by a lake. "Dat ass doe," he captioned the pic.

In July, the nudity hadn't yet stopped. He stripped down to his skivvies while wakeboarding during a trip to Miami.

What moment do you think was biggest for Bieber in 2016? Comment with your own ideas and song titles below!

A Summary of Kim Kardashian's Robbery in Paris

As Kim Kardashian rang in a new year, the investigation into her Paris robbery also produced many new developments. 

Three months ago in the early hours of Oct. 3 in France, the reality star was bound, gagged and held at gunpoint in her hotel room at the celebrity-favored Hôtel de Pourtalès by masked men dressed as police officers. To gain entry, five men allegedly poured into the hotel, handcuffed the solo concierge, threatened him with a weapon and forced him to open Kardashian's room. 

"They're going to shoot me in the back," Kim recalled during a promo for Keeping Up With the Kardashians. "There's no way out. It makes me so upset to think about it."

After stealing one of Kardashian's rings, a 20-carat diamond worth an estimated $4.49 million, as well as a jewelry box, valued at an estimated $5.6 million, the thieves left the tied-up reality star alive in the bathroom and fled. 

Kardashian's friend and stylist Simone Harouche was inside the apartment at the time, but not on the same floor. Upon hearing the commotion, she locked herself in a downstairs bathroom and texted their bodyguard, Pascal Duvier.

After the robbers left, Kardashian got to her friend with duct tape on her legs and told her to jump off the balcony to get free. However, the two were ultimately rescued when security and police arrived. The mother of two boarded a jet home to America and reunited with her family in privacy, keeping completely out of the spotlight and off of social media until she reemerged online in the new year. 

Behind the scenes, reports emerged on Monday claiming upwards of 17 suspects had been arrested in connection to the crime, among them a limo driver that the Kardashians had hired. 

According to French newspaper Le Monde, the driver was employed by an upscale private limousine company often used by the famous family. French police confirmed the report to E! News, adding that the driver was the last to chauffeur Kim before the robbery and would have known all her movement.

However, NBC News later confirmed the driver—identified as 27-year-old Michael Madar—was released from police custody Tuesday night without being criminally charged. The spokesperson for the Paris Prosecutor's office confirmed to NBC News on Wednesday that three people were released from custody overnight, including Madar, a second man and one woman. 

The company that employed Madar told TMZ that he was brought in for "testimony purposes only" and had nothing to do with the crime. Madar's brother is also among the arrested, Agence France-Presse reported. 

Aside from Madar and his sibling, Le Monde reported police arrested an additional 15 suspects—12 more men and three women—five of them already known to the police because of past robbery or other criminal activity. Also among the arrested is a 72-year-old man identified as "Pierre B.,"the oldest and suspected mastermind of the operation. A source told E! News that Pierre was arrested after officers broke down the gate of his villa in Plascassier, a village near Grasse, in the south of France. According to AFP, the man is reportedly linked to criminal gangs in the area. Additionally, TMZ reported some of the accused are tied to the illegal diamond trade in nearby Belgium, turning the investigation into an international search. 
By Wednesday, French news outlet LCI reported that several suspects in custody had confessed, though it is unclear what they confessed to doing. 
Amid the arrests, Kardashian's Paris lawyer told reporters the mogul was "amazed" by the developments. "I sent her a message, a press review," Jean Veil said Monday. "Later in the day she replied saying she was amazed by the work of the French police, that she was congratulating everyone."

MJ Getting the Lifetime Movie Treatment Based on Bodyguard's Account of His Final Days

 Michael Jackson is getting the Lifetime movie treatment. Lifetime announced Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland (working title), a new flick based on the best-selling book Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days. The movie is told through the eyes of Jacksons trusted bodyguards, Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard.

Navi, who Lifetime calls the world's No. 1 Michael Jackson tribute artist will star as the King of Pop. This is his acting debut. The Walking Dead's Chad L. Coleman will play Whitfield.

Filming is expected to begin in Los Angeles in February.

Suzanne de Passe, who also worked on The Jacksons: An American Dream, will executive produce with Madison Jones and Robert Teitel. Dianne Houston is directing a script from Beauty Shop's Elizabeth Hunter.

Navi and Jackson crossed paths before. According to his official site, Navi was previously used by Jackson to promote concerts and albums or as a decoy with the press. See a video of Navi performing above.Michael Jackson has been in the news lately thanks to Urban Myths, a Sky series that was to feature an installment with Joseph Fiennes playing Jackson alongside Brian Cox as Marlon Brando and Stockard Channing as Elizabeth Taylor. The story behind Elizabeth, Michael and Marlon? A rumored road trip the three stars took after the September 11 terrorist attacks, attempting to get from New York City to Los Angeles. Following public outcry from Jackson's family, Sky has canceled the TV movie.

"We have taken the decision not to broadcast Elizabeth, Michael and Marlon, a half hour episode from the Sky Arts Urban Myths series, in light of the concerns expressed by Michael Jackson's immediate family," the network said in a statement. "We set out to take a light-hearted look at reportedly true events and never intended to cause any offence. Joseph Fiennes fully supports our decision."

Lifetime's Michael Jackson flick is just the latest in its series of movies based on pop stars. Britney Ever After, the Britney Spears movie, is coming in February and previous movies have focused on Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton and Aaliyah.

Gwen Stefani Sued for $25 Million

Gwen Stefani's former hairstylist is not a fan of her 2014 song "Spark the Fire"—mostly because he says he wrote it and got no credit!

E! News obtained the documents in which Richard Morrill is suing the former No Doubt singer for $25 million, claiming she stole his lyrics for the pop hit she collaborated on with Pharrell Williams. In fact, he's also suing the producer for not "supervising Stefani" in the writing process.

In the docs, Morrill claims he gave Stefani a copy of his song "Who's Got My Lightah" in 1998 after she heard it on the sound system while he was styling her hair. He helped write and record the song for his band L.A.P.D. at the time and says she copied the chorus for the 2014 hit, changing "Who's got my lightah," into "Who got the lighter? Let's spark the fire," pronouncing fire as"fi-ya."

He also says the rhythm, melody, and background music during the chorus—which is repeated four times throughout the song—of "Spark the Fire" is almost identical to the chorus of "Who's Got My Lighter," and they are sung in the same key.

Morrill explained that he knows Stefani wrote the chorus because, in a 2014 interview withElle magazine, she said Williams wrote the majority of the song except for the chorus, which she was responsible for.

He also claims they've made at least $25 million directly and indirectly. Thus, he's asking them to pay him all damages due to "their unlawful acts" with prejudgment interest as well as account for and pay all gains and profits that they have "enjoyed at his expense." He is also asking them pay for the cost of "corrective advertising necessary due to harm to the exclusivity of the copyright and other misleading aspects of Defendants' actions."

Finally, he's asking them to account for his costs and attorneys' fees, as allowed by law.

Still dont know why Vin Diesel Gets No Love From The Rock

Vin Diesel is trying to move forward from the drama surrounding the cast of Fast 8, but all is quiet from Dwayne Johnson's side.

After The Rock's social media rant, in which he called an anonymous male co-star "chicken s--t," went viral, rumors have swirled regarding whom The Rock was targeting. Many speculated that it could've been Diesel, and since then both have somewhat alluded to that, with co-star Tyrese Gibson seemingly taking Diesel's side in the whole ordeal. Since then, the cast has tried to move on, even posting a heartfelt tribute to everyone on the forthcoming movie's Facebook page. The post called out all the major players, commending them for a job well done.

But in a Facebook Live video over the weekend, Diesel continued to praise his co-stars and fans, and even talked about Johnson specifically. "The reason we brought Dwayne Johnson into Fast 5 was because of you!" Diesel said in the video. "There was a girl named Jan Kelly who said, 'I would love to see you work together on screen.' So the role that was originally written for Tommy Lee Jones, we gave it to Dwayne and he shined in it."

Tourists can buy live animals as keychains and lucky charms in China

I wrote about this practise earlier. Today, I saw this photo on my Facebook feed and could not unsee it. Different sources report that these animals are able to survive for only several days (some say, several months).

There is an online petition, apparently, to stop this practise.

ARMSTRONG LISTED WHAT THE FIRST FOOD HE ATE ON THE MOON WAS AFTER HIS HISTORIC “SMALL STEP” LINE, WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO STOP THE EARTH ORBITING THE SUN AND MORE IN YET ANOTHER 14 QUICK FACTS

983) On July 21, 1969 at 02:56 UTC, Neil Armstrong forever stamped his name in the history books by putting his foot on the Moon. Armstrong getting to do this almost never happened due to the fact that he turned his application in to NASA about a week after the June 1, 1962 deadline, making him ineligible for that historic second round of astronaut hirings.  Lucky for Armstrong, Dick Day, who was the one to encourage Armstrong to apply in the first place and was working at NASA as the assistant head of Flight Crew Operations, clandestinely slipped Armstrong’s application into the candidate resume folders before the applications were reviewed by the selection panel.  Said Day, “I really don’t know why Neil delayed his application, but he did, and all the applications came to me, since I was the head of flight crew training. But he had done so many things so well at Edwards.  He was so far and away the best qualified, more than any other, certainly as compared to the first group of astronauts.  We [Day and Walt Williams] wanted him in.” It has been speculated since, whether accurately or not is anyone’s guess, that the lateness of the application may have had something to do with Armstrong’s two year old daughter, Karen, tragically dying a few months earlier from complications due to a tumor growing on her brain stem.

984) Edwin Eugene Aldrin, better known as “Buzz,” got that nickname due to one of his older sisters, Fay Ann Aldrin mispronouncing “brother” as “buzzer.” (She was a year and a half old when Buzz was born.)  Rather than call him “Jr.” or the like (his father’s name was also Edwin Eugene Aldrin), “Buzzer” was shortened to “Buzz” and became his chosen moniker for the rest of his life. In 1988, Aldrin even made it official by legally changing his first name to “Buzz.”  Incidentally, Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.

985) The first full meal eaten on the Moon consisted of bacon, cookies and coffee, along with some peaches and a glass of grapefruit juice. A commonly touted supposed “fact,” derived from this is that bacon was the first item eaten on the Moon, but this isn’t true. A very small something was eaten shortly before the meal. When Buzz Aldrin set off on the Apollo 11 mission, he took with him a small communion kit given to him by Rev Dean Woodruff, so that he could symbolically take part in the ceremony with the other members of his Presbyterian church. This kit contained a small piece of communion bread and a small vial of wine, both of which Aldrin consumed after saying a prayer during the Apollo 11 radio blackout. This was also, unsurprisingly, the first religious service held on the Moon. Aldrin had initially planned to share his Communion prayer with the people of Earth, but NASA requested at the last minute that he not do this in order to avoid offending people not of the Christian faith, as had happened when the crew of Apollo 8 had read a passage from Genesis. Aldrin agreed and instead performed the ceremony privately while Armstrong “respectfully observed”. This occurred before the pair ate their first meal on the Moon, making communion bread the first thing eaten on the Moon.

986) While Neil Armstrong got to be the first to take a step on the Moon, Buzz managed his own historic “First!”, becoming the first person to urinate on the Moon. Take THAT Mr. “One Small Step!”

987) The urine collection system on the Lunar Module had to be pressurized. To ensure that the astronauts weren’t… injured… while peeing, it was noted in the Apollo Experience Report that “a prime urine-transfer design constraint for the Lunar Module was that the crewmen would be protected at all times from pressure differentials…” This system, however, was a little buggy at first (though there were never any reported injuries). NASA engineers being NASA engineers, they worked out the kinks in the end.

988) From depictions in movies, you may think that when you’re exposed to the near vacuum of space, you’ll explode, or alternatively you’ll instantly freeze. In truth, however, your skin is perfectly strong enough to keep you from exploding and you’ll take an amazingly long time to freeze. On top of that, you can survive being exposed to the near vacuum of space for about 1-2 minutes with no long term damage whatsoever, at least so long as you don’t try holding your breath, which would result in a number of unpleasant, and likely fatal, side effects.  Otherwise, you’ll have about 10-15 seconds of useful consciousness, after which you’ll pass out.  Free of any restrictive space suit, your body will swell up to about twice your normal size and you’re likely to projectile vomit and defecate due to gasses in your stomach and bowels rapidly expanding. Your brain and heart will remain relatively undamaged for a time and your heart will continue to beat until around the 90-180 second mark. As your blood pressure drops, your blood itself will begin to boil once the pressure drops below 47 torr, resulting in your heart finally ceasing to beat, among other problems. Despite all of this, studies (and accidents) have demonstrated that as long as you’re returned to more livable pressures within 1-2 minutes (the record for a primate surviving is about 3 minutes), you’ll not suffer any long term damage.  Short term symptoms include being temporary blind and temporarily paralyzed, both of which will quickly pass, and the loss of the ability to taste for a few days.

989) During STS-37, astronaut Jay Apt’s suit was punctured while space walking. The hole size was 1/8 of an inch, but Apt’s skin sealed it. In fact, he didn’t even realize this had happened until after he got back in the ship and saw the red mark on his hand.  Even then, he didn’t think anything of it, but ground control knew he had punctured his suit. They just hadn’t told him as there appeared to be no immediate danger and they didn’t want to alarm him.

990) While everyone remembers the first thing Neil Armstrong said when he stepped onto the Moon, few can recall the second thing. That’s because it didn’t hold the same “oomph” factor. According to the official Apollo 11 Air to Ground Voice Transcription, that line was “And the – the surface is fine and powdery.” Armstrong continued on this line of thinking, “I can – I can pick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine, sandy particles.”

991) Jack Schmitt, an Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist, has the distinction of being the first known human to have extraterrestrial hay fever.  After returning to the lunar module and taking his helmet off, he had a near instant reaction to the Moon dust with his nose stuffing up quickly.  This lasted a couple hours before going away.  However, every time he came back inside the lunar module after tracking in fresh Moon dust, he had the same reaction, though lessened each time.  Also according to Schmitt, he wasn’t the only one to experience this, but pilots don’t like to admit to any adverse symptoms or they think they’ll be grounded.

992) Astronauts that had the opportunity to smell fresh Moon dust tracked into the lunar module report that the Moon smells like spent gunpowder. They also report it feels like soft snow, though is surprisingly abrasive, extremely clingy, and near impossible to brush off.  The taste is also very similar to gunpowder, according to Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke. Interestingly, Moon dust and gunpowder aren’t similar at all in composition. The Moon dust itself is made up of primarily silicon dioxide glass that has been shattered into tiny pieces. There is also quite a bit of iron, calcium, and magnesium. There are two main theories as to why the Moon dust smells like this. First, perhaps we are seeing the “desert rain” effect.  This is where the completely moisture free dust comes in contact with the moist air in the lunar module, releasing odors from the dust that have lain dormant for untold years. The second theory is that there is some sort of oxidation taking place. Oxidation is very similar to burning, but without the smoke as it happens too slowly, in this case perhaps initially giving off that burnt-gunpowder smell. By the time the exposed dust is back on Earth, it smells like nothing.

993) The United States once planned on nuking the Moon. The project was labeled “A Study of Lunar Research Flights” or “Project A119” and was developed by the U.S. Air Force in the late 1950s.  It was felt that this would be a relatively easy thing to do and would also boost public perception of how the U.S. was doing in comparison to the Soviet Union in terms of the space race.  A young Carl Sagan was one of the scientists who worked on this project, hired to study how exactly the resulting cloud would expand on the Moon so that they could be sure it would be clearly visible from Earth.  Sagan felt the project had scientific merit in that the cloud could be closely examined by scientists. The project was eventually scrapped as it was determined that the public would not respond favorably to the U.S. dropping a nuclear bomb on the Moon.

994) Along with orbiting the Sun at approximately 67,000 mph or about 108,000 km/hr, the Earth is also rotating at its axis at about 1,070 mph or 1721 km/hr. On top of that, our whole solar system is rocketing through space around the center of the Milky Way at around 559,234 mph or about 900,000 km/hr.  On top of that, our galaxy is hurtling through space at around 671,080 mph or about 1,080,000 km/hr with respect to our local group of galaxies.  The point being, you are presently moving really, really fast on this giant spaceship we call Earth.

995) When in a weightless environment, human’s naturally poop more. Because of this, in the days of the Apollo missions, NASA fed astronauts an ultra-low fiber diet prior to missions to minimize the amount of pooping they would do in space.

996) The energy required to stop the Earth orbiting the Sun is about 2.6478 × 1033 joules or 7.3551 × 1029watt hours or 6.3285*1017 megatons of TNT. For reference, the largest nuclear explosion ever detonated (the Tsar Bomba by the Soviet Union) produced 50 megatons of TNT worth of energy. This is over 3,000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Disregarding any obliteration scenarios, it would take about 12,657,000,000,000,000 of those Tsar Bomba nukes detonated at the correct location to stop the Earth in its tracks from orbiting the Sun.