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Wit & Attitude Quote by Justin Bieber

"The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy"

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Celebrity has always produced hysteria; Bieber just happened to hit at the exact moment fandom learned to organize like a startup and perform like a reality show. His anecdote about four girls climbing into a dumpster to sneak into a German venue isn’t told with swagger so much as dazed disbelief: “It was crazy” doubles as a compliment and a warning label. The word “Beliebers” turns individual kids into a branded collective, a cute name that quietly normalizes behavior that, in any other context, would read as desperate, unsafe, and deeply surveilled.

The scene is almost slapstick - garbage truck guys pulling out stowaways - but the subtext is darker. Teen devotion gets translated into logistics: access is the prize, security is the obstacle, the body is the tool. Hiding in trash isn’t just a gross stunt; it’s an accidental metaphor for what pop stardom can do to the boundaries between audience and performer. The fans aren’t trying to be seen from the cheap seats. They’re trying to breach the backstage membrane, to convert parasocial intimacy into physical proximity.

Bieber’s tone matters because he’s both beneficiary and bystander. He reports the story like someone amazed by the devotion he inspires, but also slightly spooked by the machine around him - trucks, workers, barriers, schedules - that his fame has created. It’s the early-2010s internet era in miniature: fandom as identity, attention as currency, and “crazy” as the default adjective when everyone is still pretending this level of access-hunger is just harmless passion.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bieber, Justin. (2026, January 16). The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-beliebers-have-done-some-pretty-crazy-stuff-107226/

Chicago Style
Bieber, Justin. "The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-beliebers-have-done-some-pretty-crazy-stuff-107226/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-beliebers-have-done-some-pretty-crazy-stuff-107226/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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Justin Bieber (born March 1, 1994) is a Musician from Canada.

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