There's no doubt the ladies love them some Justin Bieber. (The underage ones, at least.) So news that the latest Biebz/Chris Brown collaboration to reach our ears is called Ladies Love Me seems obvious. (At the very least, it's a more obvious career move than becoming a nail-polish designer.)
But this isn't your average Bieber hit. And if you really want to split (immaculately conditioned) hairs, Ladies Love Me is really more of a Shawty Mane effort.
Yes, Shawty Mane — Bieber's rapping alter-ego. To think we'd nearly forgotten about all those times Biebz dropped adorable science on tracks by Sean Kingston (Won't Stop) and Cam'ron and Vado (Speakin' Tungs).
This time, it's Chris Brown who gets the very special gift that is a Shawty Mane guest spot — and all the Internet traffic that comes with it.
Bieber tweeted a link to the song — which features on Brown's first hip-hop-centric mixtape, Boy in Detention.
Maybe you're no fan of Shawty Mane. Maybe Snow — or Alanis's cover of My Humps — is more your thing, should you be a connoisseur of cheesy Canadian pop-rap.
But we'll say this: For a kid whose puberty seems to have been more delayed than an Olympic gymnast's, Bieber's skills have definitely matured since Shawty Mane's YouTube debut — even if the rhymes about "swagging" are fittingly silly and tween-friendly.
"Baby I'm not crazy, I got swag like Patrick Swayze/ Know them haters never phase me, that's not how my mama raised me," rhymes Bieber near the top of his verse.
And in keeping with Shawty Mane's apparently mom-friendly persona, Bieber closes his spot with this: "I'm a gentleman, yes I'm a gentleman/ I'm out of my element, but I'm still elegant/ I'm full of adrenalin, you know what that means/ Louis V high-tops with the skinny jeans."
Listen to Ladies Love Me at www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ7yKW1_5ek.
And fair warning: The Hollywood Reporter notes that Shawty Mane will return sooner than later. Bieber is slated to appear on Asher Roth's next album.
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