Justin Bieber “Yummy” video: eat it up, or lost your appetite?

Justin Bieber’s new video for “Yummy” might make your stomach growl! Here’s a list of all the food I recognize in the video:

Box of Chinese food, water with lemon, bread roll, French fries, gelatin dessert cake thing, white bread with cheese, cake, lime jello cake, bread cake, fish, shrimp, green peas, croissants, lobster, cheese puffs, strawberries, and much more.

Ok, if you’re stomach’s not growling, you might be feeling queasy… so if you can stomach all 4 minutes of this song, you’ll also notice Justin is wearing a Drew House brand hoodie, which retails under $100, although I couldn’t find the exact sweatshirt on the website. This is Justin’s clothing brand (his middle name is Drew).

Credits in the YouTube video description list “Video Commissioner: Yolande Geralds” … this is the first I’ve ever heard of a video commissioner.

Throughout the video, Justin is wearing a puka shell-styled necklace a la 2000s Kenny Chesney. Why not, I guess.

Justin joined TikTok to promote the single and the video. Downside for Justin- now he’s on TikTok, yet another social platform to keep up with…. and like Betty White said of Facebook, TikTok is probably just another huge waste of time.

I really like the editing of this video, kudos! But that’s where my praise ends.

When anyone asks why I don’t like today’s R&B, I’ll just reference this song. I feel nauseous after listening/watching, and it’s not because of the food. It’s just a terrible song. I rather eat 3-week-old room temperature sushi than hear this song again.

The setup for a fun video is there, lots of food and interesting-looking characters. Why not have a food fight? Why not show off your wife? As it is, we see Justin eating, singing/talking with a mouth full of food, and dancing on a table. It’s just boring. I bet TikTok users came up with something better for this song, but I don’t want to check.

Thanks for stopping by!

-Out of the Wilderness

A quote from Betty White

It started as a search to find the exact quote from Betty White concerning Facebook. Spoiler alert, she thinks it’s a huge waste of time. I couldn’t help but read more of her statements and came across one that I automatically loved.

“You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.”

Animal people are simply better people. Try to prove me wrong, I dare ya!

-Out of the Wilderness

Betty White on Facebook

“Now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it seems like a huge waste of time.”
–Betty White about Facebook, May 2010

So recently a friend of mine challenged me to get my Facebook friends down to 13. To give you some context… I’ve chatted quite a bit with him about the pros and cons of Facebook, he’s never been on Facebook, and he knows I’m competitive. I’ve come down to 40 38 32 31 13 14 18 friends so far and I’m thinking Betty White was right. Trust me, I can waste my time doing much more productive things than Facebook!

Moving On Without Facebook

Like a buffalo against the herd, I recently closed my Facebook account. Most people ask if I de-friended them. Or assume I gave it up for lent or a designated amount of time. Certainly radical behavior is only short and to prove a point or test one’s limits, but not a concrete long-term decision. But now that I’m months into a social networkless life, I begin to wonder if the civilized United States is progressing or not, and which side Facebook’s on. Maybe I’m just wierd to question that. But remember when new technology promised us easier ways to connect with people then secretly stole from us the very basic need of truly connecting? I haven’t recently uploaded 500 pictures from my 75 megapixel camera, but I talked to my neighbors this morning. And I know their names.

Social websites have spread friendships wide at the cost of depth.

Something else I noticed is that I was spending too much time maintaining the online image of me. From uploading pictures, writing status updates, I was projecting who I wanted people to see. It was an exhausting one way conversation all about me! Honestly, I needed a little less barking and a little more action. So I closed my account. I can testify that it’s tough to communicate without Facebook, however, I use my phone to talk more now, imagine that!

Reverting to the traditional ways of communicating, that’s progress. Friendships becoming real again. Not just letters on a flat screen monitor. Staying “off the grid” has already proved beneficial: it’s given me more time, and added some mystery to outsiders. It’s also eliminated sources of stress because keeping up with the online image was exhausting, sometimes aggravating, but none of it was satisfactioning me! It would take another mighty movement to revert back to simple communication on a national or global scale, where we have a few close friends instead of hundreds of acquaintances.

“Now that I do know what it is, I have to say,
it seems like a huge waste of time.”
–Betty White about Facebook, Saturday Night Live, May 2010