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"      Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez broke up this weekend and we were still reeling from the shock of it all when shit got REAL.  Video has surfaced showing The Biebs blowing up his Boston tour stop with a cover of the definitive breakup ballad for teen pop stars everywhere: Justin Timberlake&amp;#039;s Cry Me a River, which, of course, was written as a very, very thinly-veiled revenge jam after Britney Spears cheated on JT during the glory days of TRL. (If you&amp;#039;re old, you know what we&amp;#039;re talking about.) That the Biebs chose to perform this highly loaded tune inspires a rollercoaster of emotion here at Cosmo, where we may or may not be grown women with crushes on Biebs and an emotional investment in his relationship. 1. Did Selena cheat? Timberlake wrote Cry Me a River as a curly-haired cuckold back in &amp;#039;02. We don&amp;#039;t want to make an ass out of you and me or anything, but Biebs is planting a seed of suspicion here by choosing to sing this song on the very day his breakup hit the Twittersphere. 2. If she cheated, why would she cheat? Did her naughty Spring Breakers co-star James Franco have anything to do with this? Or perhaps it&amp;#039;s the influence of Spring Breakers director Harmony Korine, who also helmed the NC-17 cult classic Kids? 3. Bieber&amp;#039;s cover confirms that he fancies himself the millennial Timberlake. Lofty goal, but he&amp;#039;s probably right. Does this mean he will follow the Timberlake model of post-breakup PR? If so, we may soon be seeing a Selena doppelg\u00E4nger in his new video and he might be giving Barbara Walters an earful on the state of Selena&amp;#039;s virginity.  4. We&amp;#039;re no T-Bone Burnett or anything, but Bieber&amp;#039;s acoustic rendering of this song seems to us like a telltale sign that he is heartbroken. Indeed, he admitted on the Open House Party radio show on Saturday, &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know really what&amp;#039;s even going on in my life.&amp;quot; 5. Is Selena\u2014gasp\u2014totally fine? She went ahead with an appearance at K-Mart in White Plains, N.Y. and, against all odds, actually SMILED for the cameras. We&amp;#039;re pretty sure if we split from Justin Bieber, the man (boy?) who closed down the Staples Center for a private screening of our favorite movie, &amp;quot;Titanic,&amp;quot; we&amp;#039;d be face-deep in some Ben &amp;amp;amp; Jerry&amp;#039;s or Katie Holmes&amp;#039;s favorite boxed wine.  6. Justin and Selena may be over, and that hurts, but they should take heart in the fact that they never wore matching Canadian tuxedos to an awards show, a la Britney and Justin. 7. This saga is officially ON. We trust Bieber&amp;#039;s super-manager Scooter Braun is in crisis mode and friend of Bieber Ellen Degeneres is efforting a sit-down interview. Might we suggest Bieber rip another page from the Timberlake playbook and settle his differences with Selena via Hollywood club dance-off?  Cosmo girls, what are your thoughts? Did you see this split coming? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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