Justin Bieber blasts 'obnoxious' Birmingham crowd for screaming as fans brand him 'disrespectful' (PurposeTourUK - Video)

Justin Bieber stopped his show in Birmingham on Monday night to complain about the "obnoxious" crowd and ask them to stop screaming.

The controversial pop star was performing at the Barclaycard Arena in the city for the first of two Purpose World Tour shows, following his residency at the O2 in London.

Most huge stars would expect people to lose their minds seeing them in concert and make plenty of noise, but Bieber was simply annoyed by the attention.

He addressed a frenzied and fervent crowd in-between songs at one stage, complaining they were "two feet away".

Bieber was filmed telling fans: "If, when I'm speaking, you guys could not scream at the top of your lungs. Is that cool with you guys?

"The screaming is just so obnoxious.

"If we could just scream after the songs? Enjoy the songs, then scream, screaming is awesome. Screaming is fun." Okay, then.

Fan Amanda Boland, 26, who travelled down from Manchester to see the gig was not pleased with the star's reaction to the enthusiastic crowd.

She told the Birmingham Mail: "I really felt as though Justin was disrespectful to his fans.

"Not so much us, more so the young girls who queued for a long time to be at the front.

"We recorded the fans screaming because we didn't think we'd heard anything quite as loud at a concert before... and what we ended up recording, to our surprise, was Bieber complaining because his fans were 'like two feet away', and they just 'needed to find another way to express themselves!'"

Clarifying his comments further, the Canadian pop star added: "I've been on tour for a while now, away from my friends and away from my family.

"That's tough sometimes.

"But I adore all you beautiful people who keep me company."

One Bieber fan jumped to the hitmaker's defence on Twitter, writing: "I recorded what Justin said about the screaming thing, he wasn't being rude at all."

Other fans agreed, with @NothingLikeMJ adding: "I don't get why people are so mad. Nothing rude about this!"

@tkardoost, meanwhile, complained of a "rude" Birmingham crowd, and @swe_biebz agreed, writing: "I would flip out if people acted like this around me."

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