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Bland, derivative, and disposable are three adjectives that spring to mind. Probably a decent enough chap, but the instant obliteration of his music would cause little loss to Western culture. Actually, we should be cautious in blaming Mr Beiber personally for much, as like most commercial musicians he is is simply a front figure for a group of songwriters, producers and marketeers whom he makes money for.

I'm gonna frame that.

I think she's a top bloke.

there is a dude here called SimenE i think which actually able to improvise with counterpoint, as much as jazz musician can improvise harmony and melody, he told me that by learning to play alot of counterpoint pieces and figuring out for yourself what the composer did to make it work, makes you a better counterpoint writer-or improviser. there are certain rules for counter point derived from the classical harmony, such as forbidden parallel fifth's and the restriction of jumps(i think?) probably more stuff, but it heavily relies on the chord notes and the harmonic pulse-which is to play those chord notes-1,3,5 or 7 either on the 1 or the 3 of the beat(for 4/4 bar), the rest can be chromatic. of course there are many exceptions where composers actually break those rules and still sound "beautiful and good" as you've said, but i think its a good starting point than anything else i know. if you are able to follow those rules and still remain musical and "free" i think you'll be able to sound counter-point'ed alot. however, i'm jazz trained so i'm sure i babbled here alot so my friends here can correct me :P

This is kind of irrelevant in the long run. If you're so popular people will want to use your music and you deny it, it'll just copied (or used anyway, as most of us aren't keen on fighting legal battles or, worse, we can't KNOW of many of the possible infringements as they're on someone's 5 subscriber youtube channel.) If you can even stop people from using your music or sharing it, that is. We don't live in a time where any of this matters anymore. If your music is out there, it's out of your hands and whatever happens to it, happens. If you can't accept this, then you better never release any music (or why even bother composing as it could all potentially leak out into the wild!?) The only way to ensure control over your music is to not share it with anyone, so it is with culture in general (or as said previously, just don't bother composing if you care that much.)