I'm getting tired of the public problems of celebrities
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:06 pm
Maybe I'm just in a bad mood becuase of my own problems - but I'm really getting tired of two things: the public problems of celebreties and the fact that America (and other countries I suppose) pay such an absurd amount of attention to them.
The issues that child stars face is not a new thing by any means. Or the issues of sudden fame and wealth. So why are we to feel sorry for Britney Spears and her "cry for help"? She set herself up INTENTIONALLY to have the image she has - which always seemed set to appeal to "dirty old men" and young teenaged boys than anything else. Frankly, I thought the coy, sly, sexuallity she was showing and denying was disgusting - given I had an impressionable teenaged daughter when she came on the scene. It was all calculated - but naturally it wasn't going to go on that way forever. In my mind, she had two options - go mainstream or take it even further.
It was obvious to anyone with older kids that she had no real childhood, was too used to being pampered and told she's talented, beautiful, the idol of millions etc. She needed a strong support network, and her parents failed her (in my mind). But this could all be predicted as a real risk from the path they all seemed to consciously chose.
Now that it's happened - we're supposed to feel bad for her? She intentionally set up quandries for parents all over by her style - by her gyrations on stage - by her suggestive videos and lyrics (all the while denying there was anything less than innocent about it all.
So again, maybe I'm being harsh, but I jsut can't muster any sympathy. It's an abnormal life- I assume (and alsmost hope) unfullfiling; and the next steps are obvious. Quit the whole celbrity scene for the next several years; and maybe at age 30 or so come back as a sincere, no gimmick entertainer (if she has any actual talent, that is.)
Either that, or she'll end up a sex star of some sort, and who knows where that will lead.
The issues that child stars face is not a new thing by any means. Or the issues of sudden fame and wealth. So why are we to feel sorry for Britney Spears and her "cry for help"? She set herself up INTENTIONALLY to have the image she has - which always seemed set to appeal to "dirty old men" and young teenaged boys than anything else. Frankly, I thought the coy, sly, sexuallity she was showing and denying was disgusting - given I had an impressionable teenaged daughter when she came on the scene. It was all calculated - but naturally it wasn't going to go on that way forever. In my mind, she had two options - go mainstream or take it even further.
It was obvious to anyone with older kids that she had no real childhood, was too used to being pampered and told she's talented, beautiful, the idol of millions etc. She needed a strong support network, and her parents failed her (in my mind). But this could all be predicted as a real risk from the path they all seemed to consciously chose.
Now that it's happened - we're supposed to feel bad for her? She intentionally set up quandries for parents all over by her style - by her gyrations on stage - by her suggestive videos and lyrics (all the while denying there was anything less than innocent about it all.
So again, maybe I'm being harsh, but I jsut can't muster any sympathy. It's an abnormal life- I assume (and alsmost hope) unfullfiling; and the next steps are obvious. Quit the whole celbrity scene for the next several years; and maybe at age 30 or so come back as a sincere, no gimmick entertainer (if she has any actual talent, that is.)
Either that, or she'll end up a sex star of some sort, and who knows where that will lead.