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"Justin Bieber can do no wrong in the eyes of Carly Rae Jepsen. In a new interview with Billboard, the 27-year-old singer defends her mentor against recent criticism over his recent behavior.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;I actually am so out of the loop on any of that, to be honest. People are constantly, like, &amp;apos;Is Justin OK?&amp;apos; I&amp;apos;ve not really noticed any of that,&amp;quot; Jepsen says of her fellow Canadian singer. &amp;quot;I feel like Justin&amp;apos;s a guy who&amp;apos;s working hard every day, and I think the media can sometimes be a little brutal with stuff and over-exaggerate things.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;But I stand by him. I support him,&amp;quot; Jepsen tells Billboard of Bieber, who helped launch her career by promoting her debut single, &amp;quot;Call Me Maybe.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I think he&amp;apos;s a good guy, and he&amp;apos;s doing the best he can.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nIn the March 2013 issue of Seventeen magazine, Jepsen said she looks up to Bieber, 19, for advice on her career and handling fame.\r\n&amp;quot;Justin leads by example. I love that he works hard and has fun,&amp;quot; she explained. &amp;quot;I was in Paris promoting my new album, Kiss, for three days with no time off. So I went out at four in the morning to go explore the entire city. I try to make moments happen that feel very special and memorable because that&amp;apos;s exactly how Justin does it.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nDuring the Billboard Music Awards in May, Bieber was booed while accepting the Milestone Award. The &amp;quot;Boyfriend&amp;quot; singer defended himself to the crowd, arguing that he&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;doing a pretty good job&amp;quot; for only being 19.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;Basically from my heart I really just want to say it really should be about the music,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;It should be about the craft that I&amp;apos;m making. This is not a gimmick, and I&amp;apos;m an artist, and I should be taken seriously.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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