If it was in a broadsheet newspapers supplement maybe it would make sense, but selecting a posed shot with rock star connotations on the front of a magazine that usually reserves it's cover for celebrity musicians is pretty fucked up. He already has immpressionable and vacuous tweenage girls moping after him so pretending that Rolling Stone is a good place to analyse and reflect in an objective manner just doesn't cut it.

I was fully expecting to find an article about 'One Direction' which would have been sacrilegious enough but at least the crimes they have committed are only against music and their victims will get a chance to grow out of such an unfortunate phase.