Well, I sort of forgot about this for a little bit, but going to see Papa Roach this past Monday and hearing the song Hollywood Whore I had a little inspiration to write.
So, as I'm sure if very obvious our culture has an almost unhealthy obsession with celebrity. Now I understand that they choose to live under the scrutiny of the public with their profession. But the question I ask is why the hell I should care if Brittney Spears puts on 10lbs. Or who is dating who? It is nice to know a little but more about these people that we have constantly in our lives through movies, tv and radio, but I really don't need to know every aspect of their life. No wonder so many are in rehab and on drugs, I'm sure that if I was being told I needed to lose weight and always had to be happy and on the go I'd go crazy too.
This obsession is so unhealthy. People want to see celebrities fall. Because somehow it makes them feel better about their lives. Well, it wouldn't be so interesting if it was happening to you now would it?
What gets me is how people become famous off of reporting on celebrities too. And I will admit I check Perez Hiltons site when I'm bored sometimes. And I always catch my self thinking why do I care about who so and so is dating? But celebrity and the gossip is all around its hard not to look at it. At work I can’t get away from it with the tabloids at the end of each register. Even the evening local and national news will have celebrity stories! Aren’t there more important things in the world than who just checked into rehab? Like I don’t know maybe the large masses of people dying of AIDs? If we focused even half the energy we do to following celbs around on other issues imagine how much good we could do.
Im really sick of people also being famous for doing NOTHING. Ok so you go on a reality Tv show where you pretty much want to be a groupie, and you become famous? What the hell? Suddenly if you are out in public people want pictures with you, you can appear at events and get paid? No. You just wanted to be on TV and fuck a rockstar. Well listen here, you can fuck the rockstar just going to most shows. Lots of bands like their groupies. And two, Your 15 minutes of fame were up the second your ass got kicked off the show. And I cant even say that I dont watch these stupid reality shows. But I mean people acting that ignorant? Who cant pass that up. I guess thats why they make money off it. But its very sad, what happened to self respect? Maybe you should look for it again.
mm I think that should be all for now. I could go on for hours
The party really needs to be over for you hollywood whores
The nikki Bird
