Procrastination and Celebrity Blogs
It's absolutely brilliant how, during moments of mind-numbing procrastination the night before finals start (I have three 2-hour exams tomorrow) my friend manages to find and send me a link to all the HK celebrity blogs on Yahoo!
Brilliant, isn't it? Not to mention rationalising blogging with one hand because I have to blow-dry my hair after my nightly shower even though Buddha knows that i won't be sleeping a wink tonight...or perhaps I will. So freaking tired.
Anyway, I always find celebrity blogs to be a weird thing. I find celebrities to be odd in general. Celebrities are, like, this completely different species, I feel. Trying to stereotype a celebrity would just be like stereotyping any random person off the street - completely inaccurate - but no one can deny that they live in a world that commoners like us would just never understand. There are things about it that seem so normal, like meeting friends for drinks, going shopping, going karaoke...and then there's the whole thousands of screaming fangirls (boys?) thing. XD Regardless, I find celebrity blogs to be just another perpetuation of this crazed need too know every last thing about your favourite idol. Helps their fan base, of course, though I am rather partial to the belief that celebrities want to appear personable and all that jazz, but secretly nurture condescending feelings of the utmost towards fangirls and fanboys in general.
There is, of course, a clear distinction (to me, at least) between being a fan and a fangirl/boy. Let's just refer to the latter as 'fangirls', shall we? Though I sometimes like to think I am one, I do not fool myself into thinking that my entire life revolves around that one idol/group. On the spectrum of fan to fangirl, I rate myself an amateur fangirl - I have no idea what their latest projects are, apart from their monthly appearance in Junon, I have absolutely no interest in knowing what they're doing with their lives, and I don't fool myself into thinking that I like them based on any deeper reasons than their appearance and their 'public face'.
Celebrity blogs, therefore, cater to those veering into the fangirl category. It just provides another outlet in which the fangirl can fantasise about their favourite idol. It helps the image they're promoting for themselves, and it satisfies consumer demand. Win-win situation. Ergo, EFFICIENT. This may even be, yes, Pareto Efficiency. Now let me go to my textbook and see if I mixed up the definition again.
Keep a lookout for my next entry: Procrastination and Celebrities Only Tell You What They Know You Want To Hear, primarily featuring Yamapi (山下智久）in his January 2007 Vivi interview. I want to laugh at how horribly cliche it is, but there are only 9 hours left until my first exam and there is no time for laughing, not any more. Isn't it brilliant how you always have so much you want to rant about when there are 9 hours left and 3 inches of journal articles and essays to read? Brilliant, if I do say so myself.
