Pop music will always exist.
People were ripping on Michael Jackson when Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' first came out and they called him talentless. To call MJ talentless is (pardon my French) fucking stupid.
Now this new kid comes out of nowhere because at the age of 12 someone posted a video to youtube of him singing "So Sick" by Ne-Yo at a singing competition. He was picked up by a record label and pretty much forced to sing some shitty songs with shitty lyrics for teenage girls. Just like MJ and Justin Timberlake...
What is the real difference between:
"And I was like baby, baby, baby, oh"
and
"abc, 123, baby, you and me girl!"?
Nothing...
Today, JB is older and has a bit more say in what he does. He's learned to sing and dance MUCH better and clearly takes his entertainment way more seriously than many "good" artists. Some people get one big hit and sit back, but he's still working at it and actually making songs that I would say aren't half bad.
Before you jump down my throat for that one, take 6 minutes of your life to honestly watch this video. Don't just click through it, give me just 6 minutes of your time. Take off your "hate everything" goggles before-hand too and try to look at the song objectively.
Ignore the Big Sean rap. It's written well, but that guy's flow is TERRIBLE.
So lets see...
The music production on that song is fucking excellent. The video production is fucking excellent. Neither of these things were actually Beiber, but he's got himself a damn good team behind the scenes.
So what did Beibs actually do?
His dancing is MUCH better. He has the look down (which is a huge part of pop music) although he still has a baby face... Timberlake did too at his age. His singing is a bit hard to judge with the (relatively subtle) effects, but he has a much better range and you can hear he has better control over his vibrato.
And the whole time he plays the part legitimately well... enough that I wouldn't doubt him following Timberlake's path and taking up acting.
All I'm saying is that the mindless general population ALWAYS hates young male pop musicians, but if they stick around as they get older, you grow to respect them for living their whole life under public scrutiny and still managing to prove their merit time and time again.