Is it just me, or is the whole worship of celebrities really bizarre? I think appreciating someone’s talent is one thing and I have people I like to watch/listen to, but I find the extremes that people go to really bizarre, spending hours standing around hoping for a glimpse of them, spending hundreds on tickets to go and see them, following their every move and being interested in who they’re dating, obsessing over what they look like and buying everything they make/endorse. I was reading something earlier about best and worst celebrity encounters and it’s like these people have to do the bare minimum. One person raves about Adam Sandler because ‘he said please and thank you to everyone’. Okay, shouldn’t everyone as standard? It’s odd how we heroworship people because they’re born with a good voice or the ability to pretend to be someone else, or kick a football. This isn’t one of those ‘nurses should be paid the same as footballers’ things, I just find it bozarre that we out these people on such high pedestals? I don’t think any famous person is ‘better’ than me and I wouldn’t line up to meet a single one. I respect what they create, but anything more I find odd. Why do we give these people so much within society? They’re just people at the end of the day? I saw a video the other day of a woman saying she was angry that people were at a Taylor Swift concert who weren’t singing along as they didn’t deserve a ticket. Surely this thought process is bonkers? Yet so many people hold celebrity’s on such high pedastals and treat them as though they’re more important people than anyone else. I find it all so odd?! All the fawning and things like award ceremonies for being on tv and such is just so…strange. Am I reasonable or just a bit of a sour face?
And no, I’m not jealous, I have no desire to be famous or go to the Ivy or whatever. And yes, I include people sleeping on the streets for days to see the royals in this.