Justin Bieber is in a weird place these days.
The singer recently went off about how God is awesome and how he’s only a humble servant of The Big Man Upstairs.
Then, he got a face tattoo.
Then, Bieber ranted on Instagram about how he’ll no longer pose for any photos with any fans because he’s sick of feeling like a “zoo animal” and he needs to keep his “sanity.”
And then Justin was just spotted out in Boston, wandering around a park downtown without any shoes on and feeding some local squirrels.
The artist is in town ahead of a pair of shows at TD Garden and he was photographed by a couple of residents also enjoying the weather on this fine spring day.
To wit:
“WHEN U WALKIN HOME FROM WORK AND @justinbieber IS TOO,” wrote Instagram user Windsor Dalton as a caption to the above photo.
According to others, Justin did give them a hard time when they wanted him to pose for a picture or a video.
But then, after he asked one young woman to put her phone away, “he talked to us for 5 mins,” she wrote on Twitter.
As for what set Bieber off… as for why he made the public declaration about never taking pictures with fans again… we now know what set him off.
Bieber and a pal were playing pool at Lucky Strike Lanes Tuesday afternoon when a group of relatives supposedly demanded that he pose for a photo.
This is how a rep for the website Just Jared explains what happened:
“It was toward the end of their last game that a family, also at the venue, began trying to get to Justin, acting like they were looking for the bathroom and eventually confronting him and demanding photos, implying they were owed a photo because they had bought Justin’s albums.”
A few hours later, Bieber wrote his Instagram post about never again posting for such photos, specifically citing how some folks out there think they are entitled to these images because they purchased his album.
Not every follower out there is a fan of Bieber’s new policy, of course.
In response to one fan’s objection on Instagram, this is what Bieber wrote:
I wanna enjoy life and not be a slave to the world and their demands of what they think I need to do!!
I love the fact that I am able to make people happy but cmon if you truly were in my position you would understand how tiring it is (boo hoo Justin get over it)
I’m going to keep making decisions I feel are fit for my growth and no human being will make me feel bad for it.
What do you think of Bieber’s photo stance?
And, more urgently, what does Chris Brown think?!?