Celebrity Culture - Is it killing Britain like it has America?

It is common that in the morning I look at Twitter, at the moment to see if my favourite football team has signed anybody to make me excited for next season and other pieces of news regarding current affairs, the issues around the world, the next political joke of a policy or finding out a few days late that Plymouth have sacked their manager (well he resigned, but he clearly walked before he was pushed if we're honest).

Usually though on Twitter at least one one of the following is trending:

• Justin Bieber
• One Direction
• Kim Kardashian

But what I ask is why does someone who drives under the influence, an artificial band or someone who as far as I know is only famous for their arse whilst ironically having the face of a slapped arse (and I guess married to an extremely average rapper who promotes the "n word" in his music) this consistently talked about?

Well I guess these people are a bit like religions. This said, religion is partly there to give hope to people that there is something after death, I don't know what hope these celebrities are giving other than the tweet announcing their 100% retirement from the "entertainment" industry. Also religions pass on morales, some of them incredibly outdated, I am aware, but they form a fundamental background to the laws countries around the world initially made that still form the backbone of society today. 

One of the three I mentioned, Kim Kardashian is also a terrible role model to youn girls, making them think they should get plastic surgery to look "perfect". Honestly though, is there an ounce of beauty to Kim Kardashian? She looks like a badly gone wrong Madam Tussauds waxwork that's so bad it's hidden in the basement of it's Blackpool museum! Children shouldn't think this is the way to look. What we should be celebrating is people who accept themselves, who aren't spoilt brattish adults deciding they  want their nose this way, nor should we be celebrating artists who formed their band in an easy manufactured way like they're gods gift, or a "pop star" who simply is just a monumental f*ck up.

I know what some of you are thinking "But James, people including your good self, worship football clubs amongst other things". Maybe so. But a football club isn't an individual, if a player leaves Liverpool, in my case, I won't support the club where they are at because they played for Liverpool (for instance, I'm having a hard time picking who I want to win the Champions League, the underdog or a team that includes Suarez amongst others, not just picking Barcelona on players). Sport is also competitive, last time I checked being plastic or a distinctly average singer/group of singers wasn't competitive, it wasn't something that gave you a real satisfaction of winning. Football does this. As do many sports (particularly team sports domestically and internationally, individual sports just don't give you that, plus eventually they retire etc that is unless they're representing their nation). Therefore I don't buy the idea of that at all. Plus sportsmen usually have talent, some can even be humble, very few but there are one or two. They also can be a role model to someone as well to have a fit and healthy life.

Two of the three people/groups I mentioned don't do this. You can't live like a Kardashian and have a fit and healthy life, you'll always be in having balloons put into your gluteus maximus. You could be drink driving if you wanted to be like Justin Bieber with tattoos that can only be poorly based on Martin Skrtel. And unlike Justin Bieber, you won't afford bail and won't afford the best lawyer in the state and will have some time in a prison, whether in the UK or the USA.

So on the day where the Kardashians try to press some of the most insignificant news I have heard (news that makes me see Royal Babies as major) let's not worship them, lets try to get some real talent on TV, some real talent on TV and most importantly, some women on TV that won't make girls think they need surgery to look good! Let's create an accepting culture where nobody feels down because of their natural looks or personality. 

Ultimate Blog Challenge - The 31 things I find most annoying - Number 30 - Kayne West

Hey guys! It's time for my second ultimate blog challenge post. Yesterday I discussed the 31st most annoying thing, the television "talent" shows. Well today I have moved to what the 30th most annoying thing, this is a person and his name is Kayne West. That said I can see this one bringing up the Kardashians, or at least Kim, this said I don't know anything about how the Kardashians are famous and have therefore done a Wikipedia before I start, I hear they are in an American tv show that sounds one of these unintelligent awful fake reality shows and a short marriage involving Kim. But thats pretty much it. Oh and a huge ass that apparently competes with Britain's own Pippa Middleton. You can discuss if you like these asses in my comments if you so wish! Alternatively you can share my rather confused thoughts as to why an ass increases someone's fame into the big time, however nice the Daily Mail and The Scum may find this!

But onto Kayne now! As I'm sure most of you know Kayne is a famous musical artist in the rap genre. Selling many albums he originally came on the scene releasing singles such as "Golddigga" and a cover of "Diamonds Are Forever" by Shirley Bassey. Now this didn't any me. It's what has come regarding Kayne in the last few years. 

I'm not a fan of Taylor Swift or MTV however I seem to remember a moment in an awards ceremony where Taylor Swift won an award, on came to stage this American rapper claiming that the award should have been that of Beyonce's. Now given his relationship you'd expect this to be Jay-Z, however it was not, it was Kayne West. Later on Beyonce won the best artist award, which explains why she didn't win the best female. I'm not sure how Kayne failed to notice this award, unless he thought he was going to be the lucky man to win it! 

So what next for Kayne, time to calm down? No. An album with Jay-Z. What was the lead track on this album? The racial song "N*ggers In Paris". Now I realise both artists are from the USA and I'm from the UK. But I would presume that like the UK the USA don't accept racist language. I also realise that both Kayne West and Jay-Z are black and therefore able to get away with these words to an extent. But who buys the tracks? When I was young "American Idiot" was released with the words "Fuck America", the line these words in was my favourite, because it had rebellion, plus it was the time of the Iraq war and not many people actually liked America. But these songs bring in words to a young persons vocabulary. In Britain we saw various racism arguments over the last few years, from the Jade Goodie big brother row years ago on channel 4 to the more recent alleged cases of Luis Suarez and John Terry. So whilst punishments for the latter two get carried out and remembered a song is released using words that incite racial hatred in this society, words that shouldn't be used. I don't know why the song was allowed to chart when in the charts songs like "My Ding-a-ling" that were much less offensive.

And now the last 6 months. Kayne is now a dad, but as I previously stated on a earlier post he called his child "North". To me this implies that he may well see his child as a joke as think of North West's days in school! Embarrassing. Then there's his comment that he's fighting against the dumbing down of society, (for those that wanna see I'll link my blog post about this when I'm on my iMac, I'm writing this on an iPad), he claims this is in his music. "I am Yeezus" makes a mockery of this comments, how would this be intelligent? The man is an irritating musician in society, with lyrics that mean nothing or, to his credit in the song "Golddigga" persuade one not to o out with a woman like Kim Kardashian!

Okay so I shall stop here, even though I could go on forever. Please comment your opinion ofmKayne West, his music and the genre. Is he annoying or am I completely wrong? 

Thanks for reading!