Sick of celebrities

There is a letter in The Daily Mail magazine today agreeing with you re Bradley's son Bluebelle.

I am not the slightest bit interested in any celebrities and, until last week, I didn't know who Taylor Swift was. And now I do know, I couldn't care less.

Anyone who has appeared for 5 minutes on Gogglebox or these awful reality shows consider themselves a celebrity these days. I pass by all the newspapers and magazines who have 'celebrities' splashed over the front page. If the Kardashians and their ilk are role models for our young girls, then heaven help us.

My gd looovvvees Taylor swift . I had never heard of her before then, ( gd coukdnt believe it!).
I still don’t know any of her songs, she coukdnt believe that either, so she’s clearly very popular and super super wealthy. Second only to Elon Musk I heard. Not surprising considering the cost of tickets, 🎫

The clue is in the title Anniebach. That's exactly what they are - pointless.😬

I'm also sick of what look to be interesting documentaries being fronted by 'celebrities' who make it all about them... no doubt at the instigation of producers/directors who seem to think it's what we want. Well I don't.

Galaso true - pointless

My husband said to me once, 'Anything on BBC1 now?'. I said 'Pointless Celebrities.' He said 'Yes I know they are but what's on BBC1?'

I totally agree. I too am fed up with what the newspapers call news when it is all about so called celebrities. I have stopped buying newspapers and instead just go online and read the headlines but there again, it is all about so called celebs.

They would be totally insignificant if silly people didn't go watch their shows, join their vlogs, blogs whatever they call them these days. I wonder how long they would last if everyone ignored them.

silverlining48

My gd looovvvees Taylor swift . I had never heard of her before then, ( gd coukdnt believe it!).
I still don’t know any of her songs, she coukdnt believe that either, so she’s clearly very popular and super super wealthy. Second only to Elon Musk I heard. Not surprising considering the cost of tickets, 🎫

I haven’t a clue about any of her songs, except one, ‘Love Story’, which I think she wrote when she was 17. Based on Romeo and Juliet.

It’s really good, I think, with a great video. Taylor is very pretty in it.

My 16 year old GD is a big fan, I think.

Mond you, I was obsessed with the pop stars of the '60s so I'm being a hypocrite

So was I. It’s allowed when you’re young - and they were in a different league to some of today’s ‘celebrities’.

Kate1949

Mond you, I was obsessed with the pop stars of the '60s so I'm being a hypocrite

Were they always a main item on the news every day, though?

L’il Miss on our verandah just now looking out for mummy’s car saw a bus go past and said “look grandma Taylor Swift the Eros Tour” (poster on bus). She’s seven and her older brother tells me she’s a real ‘Swiftie’ asking Alexa to play her songs “all the time”!
🤣

*Callistemon. The Beatles were in the news a lot. Thankfully

Kate1949

*Callistemon. The Beatles were in the news a lot. Thankfully

Oh yes!

Or, as my older cousin called them "Those Beatles you like so much" 😁

Elvis has landed on British soil!!

Skydancer

I am not the slightest bit interested in any celebrities and, until last week, I didn't know who Taylor Swift was. And now I do know, I couldn't care less.

We are all agreed, but Taylor Swift is HUGELY popular and seems to inspire as much adoration as the Beatles in 1964. So 60 years on Beatlemania has become Swiftmania. The internet does magnify everything and mass hysteria even more so.

She has apparently just released a double album of tracks all about her ex boyfriends. There is another singer (British) who is suddenly very popular called Raye. Both of them are singing songs which include the f-word and are angry, bitter and aggressive. These songs are not suitable for children, who will not understand the hateful feelings and emotions expressed in them. Yet children are hearing them.

It makes me weep because popular music was never really suitable for children but they were never exposed to it as much as they are now. All the fun and joy has been sucked out of it. Instead of songs about love and peace we are now hearing songs about hate and bitterness and broken relationships. That is the music of today and that is what our children are hearing.

When I was 12 I was listening to The Springfields singing Island of Dreams.
'High in the sky is a bird on the wing....please carry me with you'.
So innocent.

I know I'm biased but I don't think Beatlemania has turned into Swiftmania. I recently saw film of The Beatles' first visit to Australia. It was pandemonium. Hundreds of thousands lined the streets. People were in trees, on buildings. There was a crowd in a square that was so massive that it appeared to move as one. It's on YouTube Beatles in Australia 1964. I'm not sure Taylor has caused such mania, although I could be wrong as I've never taken much notice of her. However, I get your point Chestnut. She is the next new 'thing'.

Kate1949 From what I've read she is causing every bit as much mania, but don't forget people can see her through their phones etc. and don't always have to turn up in person. There was even a mention that she could swing the next election if she posts something online.

Really? I'm out of touch with all that malarkey. Good luck to her. To my knowledge I've never heard anything by her. I'll have to have a listen.

I assume that Nepo babies are those whose parents were ‘in the business’ and only got their jobs through nepotism.

The two expressions that really annoy me are ‘legend’ and ‘ national treasure’ they seem to relate mainly to actors who have been in soaps, which I don’t watch anyway.

I must admit I find the love lives of people in the entertainment business incredibly boring. ( Memo to self, you sound like a miserable old git…)

I never know who most of them are anyway.

We don't read the Daily Mail articles about celebrities but enjoy (sometimes with gritted teeth) many of their other articles and the sporting and puzzle sections.

What makes a person a ‘celebrity’? Being talked about without having done very much?

I'm truly puzzled by the amount of space given to Taylor Swift in the Daily Mail. I think there were 4 or 5 separate ones this morning. I can understand one article perhaps announcing a big concert in the UK but this is saturation.

Her fans are mainly teenagers and I find it hard to believe they are reading this or any other newspaper for that matter. They have their own sources such as TikTok, YouTube etc. So the question remains, who are these articles appealing to?