Popstar’s satirical take on Bieber is Andy Samberg as Conner “Conner4Real” Friel, the pretty-boy breakout star of Style Boyz, a genre-hopping boy band that paired him with childhood friends Lawrence “Kid Brain” Dunn ( Akiva Schaffer), a moody, resentful wordsmith, and Owen “Kid Contact” Bouchard ( Jorma Taccone), the sunny, affable peacemaker and beat smith of the group. More specifically, the film took on Justin Bieber, the angel-voiced Canadian man-child who has alternately seduced, appalled, and enraged a spellbound and apoplectic public with his drug- and arrogance-fueled shenanigans en route to being one of the most loved and hated men in the world. So when it came time for The Lonely Island to make their first movie, 2016’s Judd Apatow-produced Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, pop stardom was a natural target. When they wanted to make a song called “I Just Had Sex” that sounded like something by Akon but expressed an oblivious dork’s unself-conscious jubilation over sexual intercourse, they were able to get Akon himself to sing the hook on it. I’m talking your T-Pains, your Timberlakes, your Boltons. As longtime ringers for - and consistently the best part of - Saturday Night Live, they observed and worked alongside some of the biggest celebrities and pop stars of their day. They also understand pop stardom from the inside out. The Lonely Island understand pop music from the inside out.
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