Hit That Baby One More Time...
So there's a lot of stuff going on recently that I could write about, like our oil problems, McCain talking shit to Columbia grads, Stephen Colbert talking shit to Dubya's face(which was hilarious, by the way), opening/closing the Mexican border, etc., but I'm going to leave those for another day, because today I want to talk to you about, of all things, Britney Spears. That's right, THAT Britney Spears.
Now those of you who read this blog should already know my feelings about Mrs. Federline and the like, but she has found herself and her baby in the news a lot lately. This latest time she was holding a drink and her baby at the same time and took a little stumble. For some reason this made pretty much all of the papers and news broadcasts, this mundane, boring, talentless cunt made the news for doing something that a lot of people have done dozens of times. Normally I would take this opportunity to say something maliciously sarcastic like, "Once again, Britney Spears has proven to all of us that you don't have to be poor to be poor white trash," but just for a change I'm actually going to take HER side on this one.
Consider this: the woman has absolutely NO privacy whatsoever. She's got a camera in her face from the moment she walks out of the house until she returns, and sometimes even beyond that. The "press" has got her under an electron microscope and they're never going to let her go. NOBODY would look good under that kind of scrutiny. Mother Theresa would look bad under that kind of scrutiny. Give her a fucking break, for Christ's sake!
Of course the bigger issue here is Americans', and people in general, really, obsession with celebrity. We don't just want to see them on screen, we want to know what they're REALLY like, and more specifically, we want to see them fuck up. We want to know that they're just like us, faults and all. Well, THEY ARE.
There's nothing special about these people, they're all just normal average-Joe's. The only difference is that they get paid a whole lot to do not all that much. It's a sad, sad fact that society as a whole values celebrity and entertainment more than, say, education or safety. People voluntarily spend BILLIONS of dollars a year to read about Britney Spears' mundane bullshit, and yet complain about having to pay taxes so that THEIR kids can get an education. If we put even a quarter of the time, money and effort into educating our children and keeping each other healthy and safe that we put into, let's face it, gossip, we'd be living in a completely different world.
I know that I've written this MANY times before, but I will NEVER understand why people care so much about people that they will NEVER MEET. Who cares? FUCK 'EM!!! Yeah, I watch their TV shows, I go to their movies, I attend their concerts, but do I give a flying fuck what happens to them after the bright lights go out? Fuck no! Why? Because what they do DOES NOT AFFECT ME IN MY PERSONAL LIFE IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER, that's why. You will NEVER catch me buying or reading a "People" magazine, because nobody I know is gonna be in it. That philosophy can pretty much can be applied across the board with me. Terrorism? Don't care. Tell me when they get to Georgia Avenue. Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards are getting divorced? Unless I'm somehow going to be getting alimony payments out of it, I DON'T FUCKING CARE!!!
Bottom line here is this: If I don't personally see it, it ain't there. Britney Spears? Who the fuck is that?!
Now those of you who read this blog should already know my feelings about Mrs. Federline and the like, but she has found herself and her baby in the news a lot lately. This latest time she was holding a drink and her baby at the same time and took a little stumble. For some reason this made pretty much all of the papers and news broadcasts, this mundane, boring, talentless cunt made the news for doing something that a lot of people have done dozens of times. Normally I would take this opportunity to say something maliciously sarcastic like, "Once again, Britney Spears has proven to all of us that you don't have to be poor to be poor white trash," but just for a change I'm actually going to take HER side on this one.
Consider this: the woman has absolutely NO privacy whatsoever. She's got a camera in her face from the moment she walks out of the house until she returns, and sometimes even beyond that. The "press" has got her under an electron microscope and they're never going to let her go. NOBODY would look good under that kind of scrutiny. Mother Theresa would look bad under that kind of scrutiny. Give her a fucking break, for Christ's sake!
Of course the bigger issue here is Americans', and people in general, really, obsession with celebrity. We don't just want to see them on screen, we want to know what they're REALLY like, and more specifically, we want to see them fuck up. We want to know that they're just like us, faults and all. Well, THEY ARE.
There's nothing special about these people, they're all just normal average-Joe's. The only difference is that they get paid a whole lot to do not all that much. It's a sad, sad fact that society as a whole values celebrity and entertainment more than, say, education or safety. People voluntarily spend BILLIONS of dollars a year to read about Britney Spears' mundane bullshit, and yet complain about having to pay taxes so that THEIR kids can get an education. If we put even a quarter of the time, money and effort into educating our children and keeping each other healthy and safe that we put into, let's face it, gossip, we'd be living in a completely different world.
I know that I've written this MANY times before, but I will NEVER understand why people care so much about people that they will NEVER MEET. Who cares? FUCK 'EM!!! Yeah, I watch their TV shows, I go to their movies, I attend their concerts, but do I give a flying fuck what happens to them after the bright lights go out? Fuck no! Why? Because what they do DOES NOT AFFECT ME IN MY PERSONAL LIFE IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER, that's why. You will NEVER catch me buying or reading a "People" magazine, because nobody I know is gonna be in it. That philosophy can pretty much can be applied across the board with me. Terrorism? Don't care. Tell me when they get to Georgia Avenue. Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards are getting divorced? Unless I'm somehow going to be getting alimony payments out of it, I DON'T FUCKING CARE!!!
Bottom line here is this: If I don't personally see it, it ain't there. Britney Spears? Who the fuck is that?!
