I know I’ve not updated here in a while, I’d apologise but i’m not sure anyone cares that much…anyhow, something (on twitter, natch) has been bugging me. Something that has been brought to my attention by someone who I follow who shall remain nameless.
Anyhow, said person is (I assume) a fan of a well known musical group whose names ends in ‘life’ and starts with ‘west’. Now… said group are not to my taste, but I don’t begrudge any person in their own personal musical taste… Now, while said person seems to be a well rounded, generally nice if a little bitchy occasionally, (but i’m sure she’d admit that herself if I’ve got her style of pen down as I think) fan of this group she has also through her tweets exposed me to the scary other world of the boyband fantypes.
To give an example, another nameless tweeter told someone they should kill themselves because they were the unfortunate messenger to bear the bad news that said group were doing no more press appearances?! No malice or owt in that particular statement, replied to with an (i’d hope) idle suggestion.
This brings me on to this whole ‘Celebrity Culture’ thing that really annoys me. Yes, I get it. I understand that celebrities are y’know… famous and shit. I do get that having a celeb (damn, I hate to abbreviate) as a follower or a friend (I mean an actual friend) or some shit may make you feel special. For me? no, i’d rather have friends who I know are good people, and by good I mean good of heart, not well behaved or famous enough that everyone is meant to love them, friends who remember my birthday, who come and cheer me up when i’m sad, who are always there on the end of the phone when I need to conduct an hour long bitching session…. I seriously doubt any ‘Celeb’ has the time to do this with me, and I wouldn’t expect them to.
So I say to those who are too busy worrying about that stuff, try to look at the people who care about you, not the people you’re vapidly trying to impress.
Maybe.
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