I'll admit I was that way too. I would but all the magazines usweekly, people, life and style, OK I needed to know what was going on with everyone in 'HOLLYWOOD" now though i'm like why was I like that why did I care. Everything in Hollywood is so fake why did I was not just my money but my time on all that nonsense. I'm still working on completely letting go but its hard it's an OBSESSION.
2006-09-25 08:14:22 · 14 answers · asked by This Girl Knows All . . .SORT OF 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
Because it's constantly there we see it everyday in our magazines on the news on billboards on the radio. You see it over and over and over and you can't get away from it so you take a look and it wheels you in and it doesn't let you get away. It wasn't like this before I never knew anything about celebrities because it wasn't all over the place. The only celebrity news was on magazines like star which no one ever read. It all started with J.LO and Britney Spears and it just got out of control.
2006-09-25 08:20:55 · answer #1 · answered by Trish H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an escape from who and what we are -- our dull little lives, our inability to afford $3.00 a gallon for gas, our 40 hour a week jobs and tiny houses and huge bills....
Somehow, someone who can afford $5000 for a handbag or lives in a twenty-room mansion or can get a DUI and get away with it, or who divorces one stunning beauty and marries another the way some people get a new pair of shoes seems lots more interesting than someone whose weekly high spot is bowling night or the movies.....
Consider Angelina Jolie. Married (or at least partnered) to a Hollywood icon, she is an international philanthropist who has adopted underprivileged children and had one of her own, is considered one of the most beautiful women in the world and can command tens of millions of dollars per picture.
It's hard not to be interested in a person like that, especially when our own lives seem so ordinary by comparison. And when you can't go to the store for a loaf of bread without seeing five magazines with her on the cover, you're practically conditioned to stay tuned.
The difficult part is to find what's truly interesting and valuable about our own lives and treasure that, rather than scanning the glamour press for more news of the rich and famous.
The more economic depression, bad news on the front page and cultural stagnation we experience, the more we turn to the "stars". We saw it in the Depression, when all the great movie studios were built, and we're seeing it even more now with all the readily available (unavoidable) media.
The answer is probably to turn off the "star" machine and go outside for a look at the real ones, but it's hard to do.
2006-09-25 15:32:27 · answer #2 · answered by sparticle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its just like when you were in school and so-and-so says they saw someone doing something dirty in the closet with a teacher. You HAVE TO KNOW.... Its just gossip. It can be addicting if you let it. Just remember that the media is trying to sell as much crap as they can so if Brittney takes taebo or Gwyneth chews gum and spits it on the ground this makes front page news. There is NO GOOD REASON that this crap should interest you. Find another hobby, expand your horizons and read a REAL book. No more mags....
2006-09-25 15:27:10 · answer #3 · answered by tankgirl190 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Britain, there are some magazines starting to appear that are devoted to real stories about real people. I think these are much more beneficial to the reader because they are tangible, real situations and make money at the same time, and not glamourising the people concerned.
2006-09-25 15:33:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree this is out of hand and suggest that this is for a couple of reasons..just look at the name "stars" we look up to them like a god like they are in the sky and above us when in actuality they are like you and me just with different achievements and status in life they are no better than us..its quite sick how people want to know what they do every minute who they are dating and what they are doing next I mean it would be crazy and considered stalking to follow our neighbors and taken dozen of picture so why does the law allow this for celebrities
I think people look up to them because they have this false since that there life is so much more better and cling on to it as they wish it were them others are simply nose and dint know what to do with their life but to worry and gossip about others life celeb or not..I COULD GO ON AND ON
this is something about life that baffles me ..
2006-09-25 15:30:55 · answer #5 · answered by Missbribri 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
same here, i'm trying to pull myself away from it...but failing, cuz i just got into acting. it's just cuz everyone is bored with their own lives, and some famous people are good role models and people look up to them. but others, heck no. people can get way too obsessed
2006-09-25 19:22:54 · answer #6 · answered by L. Marie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Celebrities don't necessarily want society to be obsessed with them, its the media running rubbish on them and getting people to notice.
2006-09-25 15:32:05 · answer #7 · answered by lorna m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's because there is money to be made so the evil, dead hand of marketing gets you to think that you "need" to know. That way they sell the suckers all sorts of things that no one really wants or needs.
2006-09-25 15:19:27 · answer #8 · answered by Zorki 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like movies, that is all. Who cares about the hype? Most magazines of that sort profit by vanity.
2006-09-25 15:26:08 · answer #9 · answered by Caffeinated 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just to have something to gossip about i mean come on if the stars always have happy stories then ppl would not buy their merchants
2006-09-25 16:40:17 · answer #10 · answered by yaya t 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋