Lionsfan said:
I'm on board with you. I've never understood all the hating on Justin Bieber/Miley Cyrus/etc. etc. Calling them "the worst thing to happen to music, humanity is doomed". Did everyone forget about people like Jesse McCartney? Or Britney Spears? Give it a few years and a new person will emerge, and all the attention will move from Bieber to them.
As for why they do it? Probably because pre-teens, boys and girls, are easy targets to make fun of. They're old enough that you're not really insulting a child, but young enough that attacking them is simple
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This man here. Give him a medal.
Its basically the same as insulting Thomas the tank engine:
"GOD THAT SHOW IS INSIPID! No deep themes are covered! The characters are one dimensional and use very limited vocabulary to explain very basic feelings as if they are important and new! I mean cmon who the fuck doesnt understand being jealous is wrong? What a stupid shallow show. I hate it. Its a sign that all TV is dying if every day thousands of people watch these dire show. Theres no deep humor. No running jokes. No actual real life relevance to it! Its just shallow laughter at a talking train"
Notice how much of a fuckwit i sound? Its a kids tv show. Aimed at people who havnt experienced or understood jealousy yet. Things we find so common and easy to be patronizing children watch and say "OH I never thought about it before!" because they have literally lacked the mental capacity and time to think about them. You have experience. They are finding such simple shallow feelings for the first time and going batshit mental becuase, for them, these things are fucking awesome and brand new. Just because we are so used to thinking and knowing about things doesnt mean when a child experiences them they cant relate or try and understand them without us going "ITS SO FUCKING EASY DONT WATCH SOME SHITTY TV SHOW COME LISTEN TO THE WORKS OF HP LOVECRAFT!".
Its the same with teenagers. Yes we all know how stupid and aimless first love and crushes are, with their little hormones racing and making them feel shallow pointless things until they master it and start controlling their emotions to reach something more meaningful. But that isnt their fault. And we shouldn't mock them for it. Its just biology. And we did it too. This shitty music and cinema (twilight i dislike because it targets girls wrestling with new found feelings and sets a bad precedent for what a healthy feeling should look like) helps them relate about their new and confusing feelings. Justin Beiber singing about his first love makes confused, angsty and hormonal teenage girls feel more understood and normal. Sure at its core to us jaded adults is dumb as fuck because we know from hindsight those feelings are basically meaningless. They dont. How could they? Just because we tell them so?
Yes TV, cinema and books aimed at the 15 downward range is shallow and dumb. Its meant to be that way. People in this age range dont have the experience to properly understand deeper themes and emotions. Its not fair to lambaste poor children just because they lack the life experience to tell real feelings from cliched teen pop music. They arnt old enough to see its a tired cliche. And the second they hit 18 they're going to hate the new pop sensation, having received their experience the first thing they will do with it is lord it over those who don't have it yet, mocking them for their lack of understanding just like people on this forum do now. The cycle will continue.
. I'm more annoyed at teenage girls than anything else .
