Celebrating the year of little celebrities (I like to call them cele-bity’s ), Ellen DeGeneres has formed a record label, and her first artist, middle school heart throb, Greyson Chance, has been scraped off You Tube.
Ellen, a staunch Bieberite, knows there is a great demographic for this — girls age 9 to 12, grandmothers, and pedophiles — and is willing to take advantage of it. I’m sure it’s lucrative, and I can’t begrudge Ellen wanting to leverage it, considering she has a gorgeous, and I imagine high maintenance, spouse to support. Nevertheless, I can’t prevent it from aggravating me some. Not a lot, but a little vex here and there.
What 12 year old writes about a broken heart like this anyway?
I bet if someone looked hard enough they could find someone on You Tube — face it, it’s like the coffee houses of old — who is at least the age of consent. Someone who can board a plane without a permission slip, lives on their own, pays their own bills, filmed their own “concert”, put it online, and sings and writes spectacularly. A more seasoned performer, of say 19 or 30, who could use the job.
Philosophically I know it doesn’t matter. I have to say it anyway. There are no heroes, only capitalists (a paraphrase derived from a quote about the Beatles — by Cambridge University historian, David Fowler), so lets not get all weepy and proud of those who discover children who can sing and dance and make money. Let’s not pretend these people are saviors. They are merely good business people. It’s not horrible, merely boring as hell, and we can do better.
I feel the the creative forces in the world have gone on a very long vacation.
cele-bity’s, I love it.
Broken Heart, not exactly much of a song – what is the fuss about again?
Nice voice but the kid thing is getting creepy. Maybe we need a horror movie to address this.
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Similar to the Stepford wives. Anything in which everything is identical frightens me.
Or, maybe they’re blogging from Wonderland.
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*snork*
(making comment longer cuz the comment gods said *snork* is too short)
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speechless
The art died before our time.
Not to bum you out or anything. ;)
There is creativity there, it is not what is put forward most of the time.
I’m perpetually bummed these days, no worry.
Before I go on. I enjoyed frank mills and was wtf at auntie griselda.I know… no comment is the point.
I don’t enjoy listening to little boys sing, period, unless I’m watching a relative in a school play or something. Nah, not even then.
Ellen is the new Oprah. Now we need a new Ellen.
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You’re right about that, Ellen is becoming the Oprah monster.
He sings better than the person who won American Idol–which isn’t a great compliment and I had to youtube whoever the winner was because I don’t watch it
Oh god–if Ben is right about Ellen being the new Oprah we’re doomed
We are doomed I though you knew that…I think you told me first.
;)
Oh, I dunno… Alice Ivy-Pemberton is pretty cool on that fiddle of hers.
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violin sk..she is excellent but seriously there is no comparison in my eyes
Prepubescent Boys lol
Nice voice, cute kid, too much adieu about nothing.
choose me, choose me ;)
yeah stop with the baby boys already
If it can be called a baby boy, don’t use it.
“There are no heroes, only capitalists”, tell me it’s not so.
“I feel the the creative forces in the world have gone on a very long vacation”
Maybe they are on Lost Island?
I can’t remember 12 but any broken heart I had would have been because my parents too my video game system away.
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“I can’t remember 12 but any broken heart I had would have been because my parents too my video game system away.” exactly
“I feel the the creative forces in the world have gone on a very long vacation.”
More true words have not been spoken,
it’s like all of a sudden the family’s are sending their children out to make a living.
Turning one or more of your children into a cele-bity, that’s the new American Dream, is it not?
I had to ask someone the other day who Bieber was. Kept hearing the name but had no clue. I think in the back of my mind I always just kind of assumed it was someone who had/is/will eventually be dating Miley Cyrus.
I’m intrigued by the grandmother demographic.
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It it the formula of the decade I fear. We can only ignore it and go our own way.