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Why Is Justin Bieber ‘Standing on Business,’ and Why Won’t Anyone ‘Clock’ That?
The singer’s attempt to shoo paparazzi has become a meme.
Bieber has been cutting people out of his life left and right for some time, severing ties with both his old business partner Ryan Good and Scooter Braun a while back. While his Father’s Day drama unfolded, there was a new series of words making the rounds both as audio on TikTok and captions on Twitter: “It’s not clocking to you that I’m standing on business, is it?” For all of 48 hours, I had no idea that this was connected to Justin Bieber; now I know better. It’s not clocking to you that I’m standing on business, is it?” His earnest attempt to use these phrases that reference both AAVE and queer slang (though most recently made popular by Drake in the 2023 song “Daylight”) sounds unbelievably silly.
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