By Bryan Cain-Jackson
Let’s say for instance that the mail man is having an affair with his boss’s cousin’s best friend’s former roommate. *Laughs* Extreme, I know, but this is my example, folks! Do you think anyone is going to give a rat’s rear end about his goings on? I can tell you for sure that is going to be a negative, ghost rider. A fat negative! At the end of the day, no one really cares.
So, if this is the case. Then why are celebrities doing these things every day if no one is supposed to care?
Well, it’s painfully obvious that we all care. That’s why The National Enquirer is still in business, as well as the Globe and any other trash that can be found conveniently at your local grocery store check stands. That leaves the why though. It seems pretty obvious that with the events that have been taking place in the eyes of the media with celebrities in recent years; they are cashing in! Oh, yes folks! They are cashing in on the free publicity. With the internet at the peak of its power fueled by social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, they don’t have to pay a dime to cash in. They just sit back, humiliate themselves, air out some dirty laundry and they get a check. Pretty cool, huh? For them, not for us because we buy those magazines, we watch those shows about them. They gain some extra cash (as though they actually need it) and we lose a few hours of our lives. Some of this is actually so bad for us to be exposing ourselves to, that it can be compared to putting your brain on a skillet. No joke, my friends! Did Michael Jackson really sleep in an oxygen chamber? Uh, I don’t know. But that’s been a while ago. Let’s take a look at some of the more recent examples that have successfully generated a profit for one or all the people involved with all the public craziness.
In 2007, R&B artist Ray J. and coming out of nowhere socialite Kim Kardashian made a sex tape that supposedly fell in to the hands of the public “accidentally.” So much of an accident that this was, both have had immense popularity in their careers since this had been discovered. Kim Kardashian and her family have become moguls in the world of celebrity and business even at one point rumored to be getting their own prepaid debit card. Uh-oh Russell Simmons, look out. On the bed, it’s a bug, signs of something more sinister, it’s Kim Kardashian. Yes, friends, it is Kim, with buns of steel that are questionably real. I must say I think this worked out quite well for them both. The sad thing is that Ray J. was already talented and in my opinion needed no such boost. But, hey, it worked for Paris Hilton and Tom Sizemore right? So why couldn’t it work for Ray and Kim? Both Paris and Kim come from the lives of having silver spoons in their mouths, why not have sex with another celebrity on tape to further that fortune? If only it worked for us regular folks like that, right? Too bad, so sad… Moving on…
Well, unfortunately folks if I continue to go on with this blog chronicling the “misfortunes” that resulted in fortunes earned for celebrities, then it will become a blog solely about the Hiltons and the Kardashians and all the men they run through every year, so we’ll skip to the latest craze that seems to be generating some serious dough.
Charlie Sheen, or as he is better known “Two and a Half Men.” The reason why I say that’s his name is because he is the show, without him it will fail hard. CBS please don’t even go back to trying to get a replacement. It seems that since Charlie has supposedly drugged himself into a complete stupor, he first established that he is living in a house of love with his two adult film stars for girlfriends and small children, and shortly thereafter established that he needs cash because he is cash poor. Most of Charlie’s assets are tied into investments that cannot be tapped into. So what has Charlie done? He has decided to be the smart celebrity scandal story out there. By capitalizing on what the world views as his off the wall and questionably insane behavior, he is now making more money by taking his shtick on the road than he ever would have working on his hit sitcom.
There are some of us out there that have expressed sympathies for Jamie Foxx having a camera phone picture leak, Taylor Swift getting dissed on stage by Kanye West, Mel Gibson for being accused of putting hands on a woman. I am sorry but I have no sympathy for these people. They are making money off the fact that we the voyeuristic public will always look into the lives of the so called elite that in all actuality no longer exists in the wonderful world of Hollywood. For elite and glamour, go back 50 years when people had sense… At least in the eyes of the public they did. To me, the behavior of stars today makes absolutely no sense at all; Even less, the cash that they make as a result.
Share your thoughts, do you think this is all for profit? Do you feel sympathy for any of these celebrities in scandal? Tell me what you think.
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