That dog! I am CRYING! Thanks for the laugh! #Groupthink
"getting their baps out " HA ha ha...Luke, are you British?
Those kids on Ellen are becoming a bit fake, no? Also, I keep expecting Sophia Grace to blurt out "I love you more than...a double-headed dildo!"
Ah, sorry - I didn't read your entire post before commenting. My bad. But really, if that's the case, Eff 'em if they don't like the answer! But I sympathise with you...bloody rude! x #Groupthink
Yeah, I mean, why not just take the opportunity to tell 'em something positive, like 'I'm working out more', or 'I'm eating more vegetables'... ;) #Groupthink
They mention it because they think you will be flattered by it, to be nice. Just smile, say thanks, and tell them you're working out more or something. #Groupthink
Thanks, BL - that worked! Jeez, they don't make it easy any more, huh?! #Groupthink
You guys, I think Adele's ex-boyfriend is on here! Either way, asshat.
You guys, I think Adele's ex-boyfriend is on here! Either way, asshat.
You guys, I think Adele's ex-boyfriend is on here! Either way, asshat.
Tried that, nothing happened. It went red, but link didn't work... #Groupthink
OK, what's the deal with trolls these days - how do we report them? Troll patrol no longer exists - or I can't find it; nothing happens when I click the link for the Mod Squad email... have moderators been scrapped now? Who the eff do I email???!!!! Help, anyone? #Groupthink
"smuggest NYC" Awesome typo.
Although I remain impressed by her amazing career accomplishments (seriously - hats off), I'm not sure I can stand so much twee in one person. It's just a personal taste thing, though. I do wish her well, regardless.
I totally agree with you. Julie Burchill nailed the psychology of it when she wrote about the aftermath of Lady Diana's death. It seemed as if the whole of the UK went nuts - thousands of people travelled down to London to leave bouquets of flowers outside her residence (Google image-search it, you will be amazed) and for days afterwards, they stood about, crying and consoling each other. I remember Burchill made the very astute observation that these 'fans' were the very same people whose thirst for anything Diana-related - any photo, scrap of info about her private life, her fashion choices - inadvertently caused her death (car crash while being pursued by the paps, of course). She suggested that it was precisely because on some unconscious level they felt a complicity in her demise, that they were compelled to grieve so publicly; a kind of atonement.
Any time a sleb dies, and everyone falls over themselves to post about what an AMAZING person they were, I think of this interpretation. It's the same thing, if less overt; we all greedily gobble up every scrap of gossip about these people - their every faux pas, relationship crisis, fashion hit or miss... so when they die, we feel we have to make amends for our voyeurism by canonising them. I'm as guilty as anyone when it comes to trivial gossip - I clicked through the pictures of Whitney leaving a club, out of it, a couple of days ago - but I rarely join in with the mountains of accolades when they kick the bucket, unless it was someone who left a deep, personal impression on my creative life. This probably makes me a worse person than the majority... I just feel like it's weird to get so upset about someone you weren't close to in real life.
If only the chaos of life were so easily understandable. With drugs, it's luck of the draw. If you take a bunch of hard-drug users, most of 'em will live through the addiction and a few of 'em will eventually be killed by it (either the drug itself, or misadventure caused by being out of it); whether they happen to be famous recording artists is irrelevant. Even with all the help in the world, some people are just self-destructive. It's beyond a record company's ability to police an adult human being 24/7 even if it were in their own financial interest to keep someone alive.
I think the surprise is more to do with the fact that it seems she's been around forever because she started so young. Also, 48 is shockingly young for anyone to die.
