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/[deleted] Feb 22 '24

“yeah well I don’t listen to her so I don’t get it”. Like come on dude.

Even the people I do listen to I don't care remotely that much about. I love Lane 8's music, would I like to meet him? sure, would I wake up and crawl out of bed at 5am to do it? nah probably not.

Pissing yourself is another story.

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u/wowiee_zowiee Buddhist Socialist Feb 22 '24

I mean different people like different things. I like going for a run after a long day - would I get up at 5am to go to the gym? Absolutely fucking not. Does my neighbour do it every single day? Yes.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '24

I mean different people like different things.

I'm not 12.

I like going for a run after a long day - would I get up at 5am to go to the gym? Absolutely fucking not. Does my neighbour do it every single day? Yes.

I'm pointing out that despite the fact we all like different things, there's nothing that parallels celebrity worship. Hell, someone people are willing to die at an attempt to climb mount Everest, but they don't weep and shit their pants at the top. Celebrity worship goes beyond "hey, people like things".