Scarecrow1001 said:
The question is pretty simple, who is your least favourite celebrity? You don't have to hate them but it helps!
Personally, mine is Michael Jackson. I don't enjoy his music at all, I hated his public persona of weird and creepy, and people who love him annoy me.
So Escapist, who is yours?
It's hard to say since there are so many. If I hsd to bring it down to one person it would probably be "Snooki", but the Kardashians are probably ahead of her though I'd have to address them as a collective.
To be honest, any celebrity could be a great person if you actually met them, but the whole "reality TV" crowd from which those are the stand out phenomena doesn't do much for me. I for example can't see WHY the Kardashian family is famous, they seem to be rich and famous for being rich and famous in a sort of Mobius strip of logic. The daughters good looking, but there are a lot of good looking women out there, and I just don't see what makes them so popular. "Snooki" seems like she's mostly famous for having been a loud mouth and getting in trouble on TV shows like "Jersey Shore". Other than being famous and things they promote by being famous, they don't seem to have a lot going on.
When you look at other "less popular" celebrities like Paris Hilton (Heiress, pretty, has done modeling and acting), Lindsay Lohan (Acting), Charlie Sheen (Acting) you can at least see why they became famous and their body of work is usually entertaining in some way. As much as you might frown at the trouble they get into, or the attitudes they project at times, you can't say deny that Charlie Sheen has done some incredible work for example, and that Lindsay Lohan's work has also been quite good (within it's niche) despite her self destruction. Paris Hilton seems to mostly just out to be fun, but again she's managed to land some pretty decent gigs over the years and held them down. The reality TV crowd though? Not really... I mean for a lot of them it seems to be "Hey, I keep it real on REALITY TV where I act like the arrogant jerk I am... you should respect this and buy stuff with my name on it because you know... I'm famous".
As far as Michael Jackson goes (since I a few people mentioned him) I'll be honest in saying I really liked him when I was younger. I used to love things like "Thriller" and "Beat it" and remember all the controversy he started when real people started tying their arms together and having knife fights because they saw it in the "Beat It" video and stuff (cheezy now, but it was cool and made an impression at the time). I liked his style and his attitude. Of course as time went on he started to get weirder and freakier. He did so much plastic surgery on himself that he didn't even look human anymore, I mean to me he looked like he should be a flesh eating monster. While he kept the high production values for his work, the actual content seemed lacking, and he did ridiculous things like screaming like a woman and kicking the crap out of a car (I have no idea why he thought that would be cool).
To be honest at one time I probably would have defended the man from sheer fandom, but frankly the way it went down (and when I was able to look at it rationally) I'm convinced he didn't just look like a monster, but he was one. I mean all of the stuff about him hanging out with kids wasn't that big a deal, I don't think everyone who does things like that is a pedo (basically nowadays being a nice guy is always considered creepy) but when they found that pervo throne room hidden in a secret room in his arcade, had him spending the night with young boys in his bed (and a video security system hooked to his bedroom door) and other things... well... let's just say I consider this to be one of the more outrageous examples of someone buying the legal system. Truthfully his death served to let his empire rule on before all of these scandals could finally drag everything down.
The point here is I can get why a lot of people hate Michael Jackson, my opinion of him is *very* negative nowadays. However as a fan once (of his older stuff) I can also say I understand why he was a celebrity, and had such a cult of personality. The dude self destructed, but the guy was also talented on a lot of levels, and brought a level of production into music that it had previously never seen before.
