Bieber Fever.

Yesterday was QUITE an interesting day at work. I was on the train hoping for a quick little day so I could get home and watch Mackenzie, Kelsey, and Lindsey Fuller TEAR IT UP on Expedition Impossible. Everyone needs to watch them! Team Kansas! They came in 4th last night! It was so funny to see them on TV. Also to make sure that Ricky Jaime stayed safe on SYTYCD. I got to do a phone interview with him on Wednesday and i LOVE LOVE LOVE him. He was SO NICE...he was on Brandon Sr. White and at Worlds the same years as me! Hes such a cheer nerd just like me and he's officially my favorite on SYTYCD. Also he keeps tweeting me which i LOVE. Read my article about him!

READ MY RICKY JAIME STORY!

but anyways....I got to work and we found out that Justin Bieber was going to be at Macy's promoting the release of his new Perfume, Someday. All of the editors were busy getting ready to head to LA this morning for their next big photoshoot...so they sent me and Jillian (the other intern) to Macy's to see what we could find. We didn't have our names on the list to get up to the actual event or anything, so we just wandered around Macy's and talked to fans about the event. We also got to try out the perfume and  I have to say, not bad Biebs!

Let me tell you that "Trying to Meet Justin Bieber" should be an Olympic Event. It requires stamina and endurance. People camped out in front of Macy's Herald Square for THREE DAYS for the OPPORTUNITY to MAYBE be able to get a VIP pass....and by "get" a VIP pass i mean "pay 150 dollars" for a VIP pass.

What does the VIP pass get you, you ask?
1. The opportunity to go up to the 8th floor of Macy's while Justin is there.
2. .....

..that's all you get. It didn't even guarantee you got to MEET HIM. you just got to BE IN THE SAME ROOM AS HIM and MAYBE get to take a picture of him from afar.....

Yet Macy's was PACKED with teenage girls wandering around. All of them CONVINCED that Bieber was accidently going to wander into the middle of Macy's so they could get their hands on him. There were girls who were practically BATHING in the free samples of perfume that were around the store. They were like lathering it on their bodies like their lives depended on it. There were girls with I LOVE JUSTIN sharpied across their forehead (i'm not kidding.)

Most people know that I don't exactly have Bieber Fever, and that I also enjoy observing the "gems of America" (aka why I love shows like Toddlers & Tiaras and 19 Kids and counting so much) so this experience was TOO MUCH for me to handle. We interviewed a few groups of superfans and I should have won an Oscar for being able to keep my composure. It was like that episode of Friends where Chandler can't make any jokes and the opportunity to make like 8956983246 great jokes present themselves and he goes CRAZY...it was like that. It was all I could do to get my interview questions out for the girls who were CRYING because Justin Bieber has changed their lives. It was ridiculous.

So after a few solid hours of walking around Macy's trying to figure out how we could get up to the 8th floor to see him (we failed) we decided to call it a day. Only after one of the Macy's sales associates told us that Bieber was leaving at 4:30 to go to the Premiere of Monte Carlo, Selena Gomez's new movie.

So Jillian and I headed back to the office to see what we could do about getting ourselves Press Passes to the premiere. We emailed some people and eventually got a reply from one of the FOX people, and they put us on the list! Woo woo! We were going to our first Movie Premiere!

So since this was all so last minute we were pretty underprepared. We had my digital camera, a  FlipCam , and our cell phones to record stuff. We took the subway to the theater...We showed up at the theater and there were all these camera crews and reporters with like, HUGE AMOUNTS of equipment. We knew that they were all laughing at us...2 little blondes with cheerleader tshirts and glittery shoes and a little backpack full of stupid electronics...but whatever. While we waited to be told where to go We made friends with a New York City fireman who was laughing at us for being from Kansas and North Carolina, and another Intern who was from Mineola! (my hometown!)

So then they lined all of the press people up on the red carpet. How it works is you contact FOX and tell them you want to cover their event and they save you a place. So they have spots marked off for all the press people depending on what company you're from...They line all the TV people up first, then all of the Radio and magazine people. Jillian and I were the very last ones on the line, until this idiot from some stupid news channel showed up like 20 minutes late and tried to squeeze her way next to us....there was a lot of down time before the stars go there and while we were pal-ing around with the girls from "Zach Sang and the Student Body" she spent the whole time yelling at the camera guy to get a good angle of her and to hold the camera steady, and practicing her diction or something. it was so ridiculous. she thought she was so cool.

So anyways. We had ONE QUESTION we had to ask ONE PERSON...we had to ask Selena Gomez whether or not she was ever a cheerleader. That's all we had to do! And its super easy because no matter how much of a hurry she's in, it's just a yes or no question! So the rest of it was all fluff. And it was really hard for me and Jillian to stay cool. We were so startstruck. But it was okay because so were the Zach Sang girls haha they were so fun.

So first on the red carpet was Andie MacDowell. We didn't really have any questions to ask her, but her daughters had on AWESOME dresses so we chatted with them while she answered interview questions....

But while Andie was walking the red carpet, Bieber showed up to support Selena. I knew it was him because wherever Bieber goes he has a swarm of screaming girls not far behind. Like, any time any part of Justin Bieber is visible to the public eye, there is SOMEONE screaming about it. He's like eeyore with the permanent cloud except Justin Bieber has a permanent cloud of screaming girls. But it all happened so fast! He jumped out of the car and practically RAN into the theater. Obviously, it's SELENA's time to shine, not his! Jillian managed to get an AWESOME video of him though. And I was able to take a picture.

After that Stephen Baldwin came out (he hit a ray...for all those cheer nerds out there) and then Katie Cassidy. Both were very nice, they said hi to us but that's really all because we didn't have anything to ask them.

So then Selena came out to the carpet. She was SO PRETTY! She had on a beautiful blue gown and yeah. She looks just like Sarah Zoretic! haha.

So Selena walked down the red carpet and as she got right by us her publicist lady put her arm right after me and Jillian and was like OKAY THESE TWO ARE THE LAST QUESTION....
....WE WERE GOING TO GET TO TALK TO SELENA GOMEZ.

so we got our one question ready and our recording device and all that. She turned to look at us and goes "Hi how are you guys!?"

...THE DUMB REPORTER CUT IN FRONT OF US AND STOLE OUR QUESTION.
are you kidding. we were so pissed. But still, Selena said Hi to us, and we got to write down her anwers to all the questions that the Zach Sang girls asked her. And we saw Bieber after all of that hunting at Macys! So it wasn't a total loss.

We're going to see the movie on Wednesday afternoon! I'm so excited

So that was my day at work. It was extremely interesting and SO MUCH FUN. I can't believe this is what I'm spending my summer doing!

Okay. That's all. I'm going to pick up Clarkson at the airport! Stay tuned to hear about Lewis and Clark adventures in New York City!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


-klew

PS. follow @cheerleadermag on twitter. It's me and Jillian most of the time tweeting about our adventures