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Russell Brand: 'Heroin Would Weed Out Music Stars Like Justin Bieber'

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April 16, 2010 by Jason Gregory | Photo by WENN.com
Russell Brand: 'Heroin Would Weed Out Music Stars Like Justin Bieber'

Russell Brand has claimed that exposing young musicians to hard drugs would help strengthen the music industry.

The comedian and reformed drug addict said “teenyboppers” such as Justin Bieber wouldn’t be able to handle illegal substances like heroin.

“The top of the hit parade would look very different if teenyboppers were exposed to heroin,” he told Rolling Stone magazine.
 
“It would weed a lot of them out.”

He added: “I don't think Justin Bieber could handle [the late Pink Floyd member and addict] Syd Barrett's habit.”

Brand, who is engaged to pop star Katy Perry, compared his theory to Darwin’s law of natural selection.

“A lot of people in their journey to rehab overdose, and then, perhaps, we would be spared their awful music,” he said.

Perry recently joked on her Twitter that she and Brand could adopt 16-year-old Bieber.

In 2008, Brand was criticised when he joked that he had slept with actor Andrew Sachs’ daughter during a radio show.

 

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  • who is this ?

    ~ by sophiebieberx 4/16/2010 Report

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  • omg

    ~ by tronita 4/16/2010 Report

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  • Why was the last paragraph relevant?

    ~ by Whoknowswhoiam 4/16/2010 Report

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  • Decent idea but its fairly bias as you have chosen to show them at their worst with he drugs rather than at their best, its not drug use thats a problem, it is drug abuse, and you have showcased use as abuse. That's not the case. I do however like the idea and the photos are amusing. I'll work on putting some pictures up while they are on fire on stage bringing love and passion to thousands of fans....oh yeah, thats with the help of drugs. ( It will be in these pictures )

    ~ by Willie Awesome 4/23/2010 Report

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  • all addicted to a drug called time

    ~ by truth 4/27/2010 Report

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