Why would or do
you care? I have no idea.
When Orlando Bloom announced his break up with my favorite
ex- Victoria Secret Angel, Miranda Kerr I was so sad. I must admit that it’s a bit
strange the situation pulled at my heartstrings but it’s Miranda Kerr..
and her life is perfect
and she’s so beautiful
and her husband is so
handsome
and she’s so fit
and her son Flynn is so
adorable
and she’s high-fashion
and she was an Angel
and she’s not related to me
in any way
but I still care.
The big question behind my situation is why I care so much. I
don’t know what it is about celebrities’ lives that interest me so much. In our
culture, good-looking people like Miranda and Orlando control consumer culture and
make us want to live up to be characters just like them. Successful and
beautiful! When perfect people get married, they become even more perfect. It’s
just a matter of addition in my mind. 1 perfect person+ 1 perfect person= even
more perfect! So I guess, in my mind,
Orlando and Miranda breaking up their perfect-ness is similar to a tornado shattering
all things perfect in nature.
As citizens in our culture, we are so drawn into what
stories make headlines and what products are advertised that we tend to attach ourselves
to products and in my case, celebrities.
But I guess I’m not the only weird one because there’s a
Buzzfeed on this!
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Source: http://www.buzzfeed.com/kimberleydadds/25-photos-of-miranda-kerr-and-orlando-bloom-that-will-make-y
I totally understand what you mean. We are all enthralled in the lives of celebrities. Like really why do any of a us care about Miley Cyrus when there is a clear consensus that we don't approve of twerking. I personally love Miranda, and yes, I did think her marriage to Orlando was perfect. Why must they split up?? Again, like you said, why do I care?
ReplyDeleteYup. I got pretty upset over the death of Lou Reed last week, not because I've ever been such a huge fan of his work, but because I just LOVED his late-in-life marriage to the singer/performance artist Laurie Anderson. It breaks my heart to think of her losing him, somehow. But I don't know these people; I have no idea what this is really like for them or their families.
ReplyDeleteCelebrity culture invites us to live vicariously--to find ourselves in the false, marketed "lives" of the famous, lives that are mere illusions written and designed by publicists. A Marxist might argue that we are kept complacent to our increasingly inequal culture by the parade of stars and the lives they supposedly lead: we're so tied up in their super-rich foibles that we feel frozen and unequal to the task of changing our real lives.