Sing For Your Idol, Briarwood Mall, Ann Arbor, MI
April 17, 2004
by naturalwoman

Justin sang "One Heart Too Many" and "Get Here". He was so cute and mentioned how his second album is in the works and something like "this time I GET TO WRITE IT." I shouted out "you deserve it!" He said the album will be really funky and that the last album was all about "contract" and other stuff. and that the past year has been an interesting one.

A girl from American Sweethearts yelled out "jelly" and Justin said really cute and funny "don’t you wish". lol. His performance was VERY good. I was surprised he sang songs from his album. After the winner of the competition was announced we ran over to get in line for the autographs and pictures. There was already a long line an they told us that we were just after the cutoff. meaning that in front of the cutoff people were guaranteed to meet Justin. But he had to leave at 4 so after the cutoff we could only meet him if it was before 4. It was 2 at that point. we were a little worried but when we asked Justin's "man" (lol, assistant?) if we would get to meet Justin he said "everybody will get an autograph." woohoo!

So at first we were worried- Justin was spending A LOT of time with each person. But once we found out we were going to get to meet him we thought it was so cool of him to take so much time. He was signing multiple autographs for everybody (pretty much as many as people wanted) and was laughing, joking, commenting on gifts people gave him, babies, crying teenagers, etc. It was cool being in the back of the line because we got to watch him the whole time and he is such a class act.

So finally we get up to Justin and I gave my video camera to a guy out of the line and asked if he could film me and the other girls I was with as we talked to Justin. A big thanks to him. He got a ton on video, including my whole interaction with Justin. I gave him a mixed tape of inspirational songs and songs I love that I thought he would love. Yes, I said a mixed tape. I am technologically challenged and don’t have a cd burner. I told Justin this and he laughed and said "yeah, what's up with that?" I also gave him a bracelet I made that says "strength courage wisdom" one of my favorite india arie songs. I also put that on the mixed tape. I told just he was screwed over and that he would make it on the strength of his phenomenal talent and charisma I told him I couldn’t wait to hear HIS writing. I also got a hug and he gives the best hugs! He signed his Midnight Voices cd for me (which was funny, he went "ohhh, this is OLD SCHOOL! like high school!), his CD, a headshot for my buddy RRRRROOOOOBBBBBB, and this picture of us....So the girls with me are "jellies" and they were asking Justin about Kelly. lol. Ashley was apologizing because she wanted him to sign something Kelly had signed and she said "I know you are trying to get away from the jelly stuff." but he said "oh no, Kelly is a sweetheart." Another girl showed Justin the "lawnmower" and Ii asked Justin to give Kelly a bday message on video and he said SOOOOOO sweet "happy Birthday baby". Oh man, it was almost sick how sweet that was.

So we waited around to watch the rest of the line and I asked Justin why he didn’t sing Timeless with Kelly on tour. He said he was out of town when she was in LA and he was bummed, he would have liked to have done it. I told him I love him singing it. but he said "the guy who does it is great!" I thought that was awesome how he complimented Jacob. As Justin got up to leave a few people ran up to him asking for last minute autographs. His "man" said "you don’t have to" but of course Justin was like "oh, it's cool." As he was leaving there was this little boy trying to get Justin's attention so I yelled at Justin and pointed to the boy. Justin said "I gotta sign this" and grabbed a pen. He also took a few pics on the way out. lol, We stalked him all the way to Sears where he went in some back office. So we left and see a limo. Of course security says Justin already left. Yeah right. So we waited and there were three young girls who had missed Justin and had gotten blank headshots but wanted to meet him. I asked the 8 year old what her favorite Justin song was and she said "I don't know what my favorite Justin song is but I know that he is fiiiiine." lol. She was so cute. I told her that if Justin came out he would sign for her and hug her for sure. She got excited and was like "even my arm?" lol. I said "maybe he can sign your purse since you always have that with you" and she liked that idea.

So Justin comes out and compliments the jelly girls on their Justin shirts. Everybody asks for a hug and he says "ok, group hug." So I run over, with my video camera on and hug with the group and then I go crazy and kiss Justin on the cheek about 3 times. Lol, it's on video too. He took pictures with the three girls outside.

So then Justin got in his limo and left. What a class act, once again.