cultural document

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV09SYxFKR0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkSMhZOPMZI

The video i posted is the 2004 Ryan Seacrest interview with Britney Spears. At this time Ryan Seacrest had his own TV show and one of his guest was to be Britney Spears. What is so bizarre about this is that he actually had a countdown all week in his show of how much longer before Britney was to be on the show. Now i posted this because i feel it represents a good part of our culture and obsession with celebrities. Now a days people just cannot get enough of celebrities and their lives, we catch ourselves reading magazines, reading online posting and keeping updates with what is going on in their lives. Now to me Britney Spears is just a normal girl, i mean sure she is a celebrity and if given the chance will get her autograph but does our society have this much of a fascination where we countdown the days til seeing her on a show. This to me is a great representation with our culture and how it reacts to celebrities. Another video i posted is a video of Paula Abdul talking about her stalker's death. This news made headlines when a stalker of Abdul committed suicide outside of her home, to me this is bizarre in the sense that looking at what these celebrities have to deal with and problems they have to encounter with the obsession that people have over them, i do not feel this should be something celebritites should be forced to face. I think people need to start learning how to separate reality from fantasy and keep celebrities as a form of entertainment and not their whole lives.