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I feel called to post about Justin Bieber - some sleb was allegedly snapped mid-snog with the lad and now has death threats.
Do One Direction, with their Bieber-esque images now risk the lives of their partners?
Surely somebody with an ounce of sense involved in the careers of these ephemeral boy-acts needs to get their protoges to denounce such fanaticism? It's hard enough to discourage religious fanatics from harming innocent people, without boy-band fanatics adding to the terror threat.
artists should not need to fear for the lives of their partners - it is bad enough that celebicide makes the killer famous, but extending that to others is terrible IMO.
perhaps such things are a result of the impact of hype and hysteria on fragile minds - just the kind of madness that XF seems to revel in.
If this kind of madness attaches itself to 1D, perhaps Simon may finally have some regrets at his hype.
Do One Direction, with their Bieber-esque images now risk the lives of their partners?
Surely somebody with an ounce of sense involved in the careers of these ephemeral boy-acts needs to get their protoges to denounce such fanaticism? It's hard enough to discourage religious fanatics from harming innocent people, without boy-band fanatics adding to the terror threat.
artists should not need to fear for the lives of their partners - it is bad enough that celebicide makes the killer famous, but extending that to others is terrible IMO.
perhaps such things are a result of the impact of hype and hysteria on fragile minds - just the kind of madness that XF seems to revel in.
If this kind of madness attaches itself to 1D, perhaps Simon may finally have some regrets at his hype.
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Everybody seems to love Louis' girlfriend Hannah, maybe because they've been together since before the X Factor started. I fear for any future girlfriend of Harry Styles
OH MY GOD, girls will be sharpening their pitch forks.
:rolleyes:
Now that's just sick:p
Rather than their fans...which we now know to be a fib...;)
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These people do need to be at least scared sh*tless so that they don't think they can get away with it.
Thankfully this is just a small minority of warped minded individuals. Most fan girls (altho scarey) wouldn't go as far as to issue death threats.
What shocked me with the attacks on the Belle Amie lass was that some of the girls threatening her were so stupid or maybe cocky that they were posting them using their real names and could easily be traced.
I think at some point we’ve probably all had a bit of a “NOOOOOOOOOOO” reaction to the news that our favourite actor/singer/idol had a girlfriend – even yesterday I sulked for at least 10 seconds at the news that David Tennant has got engaged! – but even back in my days of teenage fandom I never wished or threatened harm on the evil models stealing away my beloved. It’s a reminder though that the word fan comes from fanatic and knowing how vicious teenage girls can be, makes me glad that I’m not a gorgeous, skinny model girlfriend of a teenage pop star.
PS: David Tennant is only marrying the gorgeous, skinny, talented blonde because he hasn’t met me.
ooooo I missed this dam am too late!!
I find it really strange, as I was never like that when young and neither was ANYONE I knew, and I grew up on a roughish estate...I really wonder about the psychology of the kids who do this, or if it's a generation thing? Then again, my gen had movements like the Brosettes in the 1980s, and they were like a law unto themselves. Though I don't know if even they went down the death threats route.
It makes it easier to daydream ME in the picture. So knowing about a girlfriend/ boyfriend just spoils the picture in my head...
But verbally assaulting the girlfriend, that's just... weird. One must keep in mind the difference between daydreaming and IRL. I wonder why that distinction is getting so mixed up in some people's mind.