When celebrities are in the tabloids for negative reasons, it makes us "normal" people feel better about our lives. Even Donald Trump went bankrupt in 2004 and had to give up his control of Trump's Atlantic City Hotel and Casino. See, the economy sucks for him too! Say your boyfriend cheated on you with Sally Mae down the street and now the whole neighborhood knows about it. You look like a fool! Well, at least you didn't just win an Academy Award and your husband decided he couldn't handle the pressure of his wife being more successful than him, so he went and cheated on you with a stripper named Michelle "Bombshell" McGee, along with a few others and now, the entire world knows only a week after your success. Try to sleep at night with THAT on your shoulders! "I wish I was as beautiful as Britney Spears." Well, ya kind of are. Did you see her shaved head? Plus, it takes celebrities HOURS to look the way they do. It doesn't just happen naturally for them, ya know.
Sometimes, we can just relate to certain celebrities. Miranda Lambert performed "The House That Built Me", which relates to me personally in so many ways. It talks about going back to your roots, the house you grew up in, because you're so lost that maybe the house or the place you came from can remind you about who you really are. This is something I'm going through in my personal life, and it's not only that song, but she has written many many more that relate to me as well. Perhaps a certain celebrity played a certain character in a movie that was dead-on with what someone else was going through. That person may be inclined to follow that celebrity after seeing that movie.
Reality TV has really grounded celebrities these days. It has made celebrities more "real" to us. Starting with "The Newlyweds" in 2003 with Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey. They were gorgeous, successful musicians who had an elaborate wedding and a huge house in Beverly Hills, like most celebrities do. But underneath it all, they were just a normal newly married couple just trying to get used to merging lives like every other newlywed in America. Unfortunately, the show put a lot of pressure on them and eventually they were divorced. How would YOU feel if cameras were following your every move on a daily basis?
Most people have that one Celebrity Icon. That one celeb that has it all that they want to be JUST like! Someone they look up to and respect. Take the Kardashians. This family is amazing! The Kardashian sisters, Kourtney, Kim, and Khloe all learned from an early age that to be successful, you have to work for it. So, when she was old enough to get a job, Kim, the most famous one of them all, began working for her father at his music marketing firm. From there, she developed some excellent work ethic and since then, she has worked at becoming the successful model and entrepreneur she is today. Her hard work has paid off!
My Icon is P!NK. Do I want to be just like her? Well, no. But I respect her tremendously. She has written every single one of her songs and most of them hold some very significant meaning from her life. She is talented, genuinely talented, and she is original. She is a bad-ass but she is GORGEOUS too. One of the few women who can pull off short hair very well! Plus, she does what she wants and doesn't take crap from anyone. I hope I can be A LOT like her, but not identical.
Celebs have the houses, the cars, the clothes, the money...they have it ALL! Everybody wants to have it all! So we follow celebrities to try and "live" through them, if not actually do EXACTLY what they do, wear what they wear, drive what they drive. "Well, I saw Cameron Diaz with a black Fendi bag, so I went and spent $1600 on that SAME bag!" Wow. Has it really come down to that? I'm afraid so.
People will never cease to be fascinated by the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Whether it's because we strive to be them, because following them gives us instant self-gratification, or because we simply relate to them as people, it's all entertainment. That's what celebrities are there for anyway, right?
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