r/melbourne • u/Diqt • Feb 21 '24

Light and Fluffy News Taylah Sweeeft

Hopefully this doesn't get deleted because I sure as hell can't post anywhere else about her unless it's mindnumbing blind agreement with everyone else.

Anyway I just saw live coverage of her NFL boyfriend landing in Sydney. Professional journalists who have interviewed our country's leaders are watching his plane land. Sitting around talking about it. This is live news.

This goes WAY beyond enjoying her music. I don't know what this is anymore. It felt like as a society we were moving away from celebrity worship. This has lost touch of reality. What's weird is everyone going along with it? I feel like I'm in a movie where everyone gets infected and I'm going to be the last person alive. Movie ends with me dancing mindlessly to Shake it Off, my eyeballs completely white. Roll credits.

Maybe a Swifty can explain this phenomenon to me because this level of worship would be ridiculed for just about any other celebrity. I didn't even know Pink and Blink 182 were here too, they've gotten so little media coverage.

EDIT: Thanks mods for not deleting this. Third different sub I tried. Happy that the Melbourne sub allows some discussion! Saving me from any Donald Sutherland in Body Snatchers assumptions.

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u/wowiee_zowiee Buddhist Socialist Feb 21 '24

People pissed themselves when The Beatles arrived in Australia, people cried in the streets when Kurt Cobain died.

I don’t understand why this is a shock to anyone. People feel connected to musicians. Like she’s literally the biggest musician in the world and the amount of people going “yeah well I don’t listen to her so I don’t get it”. Like come on dude.

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u/OoieGooie Feb 22 '24

This behavior was still pretty norm until the 2000s. Large companies found it easier to create bands over finding them. The problem however is the music scene is now very watered down to a few. No more Beetles, Abba, Nirvana, Metallica etc.

Look at the movie industry. Who goes to see a movie because said actor is in it? I use to go watch an Arnie movie just because. There are no actors people would kill to see anymore.

1990s was the peak of entertainment. I recommend everyone go back there to watch and listen the good stuff. Big shame about today's entertainment. Especially with the woke/Marxist movement destroying everything.

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u/wowiee_zowiee Buddhist Socialist Feb 22 '24

Kurt Cobain was about as woke as they get mate. Also, heaps of people see movies because of the stars - just because you don’t doesn’t mean no one else does.

Like dude we get it, things were better in your day. And things were better in the 80s, and 70s - and to some people things were better in the 60s. Every generation goes this and it’s SO fucking boring. You are missing out on amazing music because of this mentality.

Eyedress is great, Alex G, PinkPantheress, Dungeon Serpent, DARE, Lil Ugly Mane