False Idols
Posted on 11. Apr, 2010 by admin in Entertainment, Life and Style, Music
By Audrey Indome
Ok so I was doing my daily internet rounds when I stumbled across something that made me think I better book an appointment with my opticians. I did a double take and realised that in fact my eyes were not deceiving me, after seeing the headline “Cheryl Cole voted most inspirational woman of the decade“.
Now I have absolutely nothing against Mrs Cole but was genuinely mystified that a mediocre pop singer who is more famous for whether or not she’s wearing her wedding ring could ever be worthy of such an immense title, and I’m sure even Cheryl herself is baffled by the results and I can only hope and pray that this survey was completed by a group of giggly twelve year old pre teens.
The word ‘Idol’ has a totally different meaning in this generation of fame hungry wannabes, and for centuries young people have looked up to stars and celebrities but what is different about today? It’s the fact that there is an impartial imbalance of real life heroines and inspirational women who simply cannot compete with the emaciated starlets and pop stars we have to offer.
Women such as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor where the celebrities of way back when, but at least they had the talent to match the hysteria which very much existed. Now we have the likes of the gruesome Katie ‘plastic’ Price and Cocaine snorting chav Kerry Katona to look up to. Women who have less talent than a bowl of Coco Pops and stupidity in abundance and it’s scary. Harsh I know but what we have forgotten to instil in the younger generation is that loving Cheryl Cole’s music is OK but loving Cheryl Cole is in some ways dangerous.
Cheryl recently launched a tirade via her twitter at the press blasting that whether she wears her ring is not a subliminal message to love rat husband Ashley, and that he is well aware of anything that is happening in their private lives…..yawn! Now we all know they’re getting back together and this false and misleading game of spot the ring is getting old and is frankly insulting to her fans.
What has happened where we are idolising talentless nobodies instead of real women making a real difference to the world. My mother a mid wife who works every hour God sends for the NHS without even the smallest gesture of appreciation and guess what a whole £1.85 pay increase (somebody call Bentley we’ve arrived) is an example of a strong positive role model. A female solider in Iraq, a Nobel prize winner, or a humanitarian and there’s plenty of other examples of women who unfortunately are ignored to make way for vacuous air heads with nothing remotely valuable to offer.
I could go on forever but perhaps we should really start to think about who we want the future generation to start looking up to because if all of the above are the strongest candidates then I for one am very worried
i totally agree! wrote the truth:)
Im sure this was a pre-teen choice, I wouldve hoped that anybody with at least secondary school education would know the concept of influence.
Great read Audrey!
So true, it’s sad that worthy ‘idols’ for the younger generation are not at the forefront, but as you mentioned hopefully they have people closer to home or in their community that are positive role models.
Very well written.
Unfortunately, todays society is encouraging us to delve into the lives of these celebrities and ignore (become immune) to whats really going on round us. Look how ‘well’ Twitter took off… and ‘network page’ full of status updates from celebrities.
I just hope that we as informed individuals bring up and ecourage the next generation not to fall into the same traps.
Very true!!!!
Good article dear