- Miley Cyrus twerking on Robin Thicke at the VMA's
- One video has over 9,000,000 views on YouTube
- Amanda Bynes life is a train wreck
- Lindsey Lohan in general
- Willow Smith says she's bisexual at 11 years old
The tweets caused enough commotion to receive enough attention to get an HLN Segment. My question is at the age of 15, how many of us really were that thrilled about school. That's around the time most of us were sophomores in high school and if I remember correctly, I was awkward and not a fan of school. So why is it that HLN, Time, and the Huffington Post counting this as news?
If you or I tweeted this, many adults would say that we were just being a teenager. Yet, when you have a little celebrity backing it seems as though what you say and do gets more attention. The funnier thing to me is that, Smith's celebrity status is mostly because of who his parents are rather than his own performances.
Jaden's most notable and recent appearances are Pursuit of Happiness, The Karate Kid, and After Earth. The first two movies were his breakthrough into show business and did well, but After Earth was a flop when it came out. So, again his career has not made his celebrity status big enough to stand on its own, yet we give him attention for saying something that would be seen as him just being a teenager if it wasn't for who he has as parents.
As a country, I think we need to really look at what we give our attention, especially when it concerns young stars.
I completely agree, as a society we give celebrities entirely too much power. Just because theyre in the spotlight all the time, have a ton of money, and endless possessions we tend to hold them to a higher standard than the rest of the world. If Robin Thicke was on stage getting twerked on by just some average 21 year old girl no one would have said a thing, but because it's Miley Cyrus it's a huge deal. I for one do not think that she's off her rocker or lost her mind, she's an adult now and she's showing us that she isn't the same little Disney girl we watched grow up or grew up with on TV, that's no longer her image. Again, there are girls her age who aren't famous, are they crazy for twerking too?
ReplyDeleteI do understand why she's being criticized for actions, because she has an influence on young girls, and they may mimic her and do the same things she does. However, that doesn't fall on Miley, it falls on their parents. The parents should be a child's influence not just one celebrity. And for Jayden, he's a teenager. His tweets are taken out of proportion. Nine times out of ten everyone who saw his tweet either thought it or tweeted it at some point in their lives.
I'm glad you and Ellen agree. I agree greatly with the fact that Miley is showing us that she is no longer that little girl on Disney,but I feel like there are other ways to do it and that is the reason for the criticism. I also agree that parents need to step up to the plate and raise their children instead of having celebrities and other outside sources influence their kids.
DeleteEllen, I agree with news outlets giving attention to the wrong things. I saw this story on the news as I channel surfed before I heard or saw anything on the Mall issue in Kenya and that has been going on for three days now. America needs to re-evaluate what is important. Stories on teenagers being teenagers isn't important and a 21 year old acting a fool like every other college student in the nation isn't earth shattering news.
I do agree with the point you're trying to make. We really shouldn't give celebrities as much credit, but how else are teenagers going to read the news? Perhaps we're subjected to most of these stories because with computer software, they're able to tell we're around the same age. Maybe they didn't think we would be interested in the mall crisis in Kenya until we got to their website in the first place.
DeleteThe other truth is, some kids will do what any celebrities do, in spite of what parents might say. I agree, this isn't all cases, but if there's a chance for a negative outcome, shouldn't we discourage it? I think that's all the news sources were trying to do. They wanted to have teenagers involved in any kind of news as well as providing parents with a little backing to tell kids not to follow celebrities blindly.
I agree!! I am so tired of news outlets giving attention to things that don't matter! When I was 15 I hated school, so does almost every 15 year old. If this was anyone else, this tweet wouldn't matter but the fact that Jaden is famous gives this attenton.
ReplyDeleteI can only see a point in parents being a little angry with this Tweet because Jaden is a teenager that is looked up to by his peers. It is hard enough to get teens excited about school, this doesn't help.
This is not something that the media needs to focus on at all. It's awful that this is something that could be a bigger headline than what is really going on with the world.
I have to agree. As you said, I think a lot of the so-called "shocking' behavior of teenage celebrities are things that are actually pretty common for everyday teenagers as well. Of course, there are celebrities who genuinely have some issues, but there's still no point in paying attention to them.
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