I work in a store which plays popular music through it's speakers. Stuff like Adele and Beyoncé. I was restocking some shelves, as ya do in retail, and a Taylor Swift song comes on. It's "Teardrops on my Guitar". It has lyrics like
"Drew walks by me, can he tell that I can't breathe?
And there he goes, so perfectly,
The kind of flawless I wish I could be,
She'd better hold him tight, give him all her love
Look in those beautiful eyes and know she's lucky cause"
So yeah, it's about a girl who's in love with a guy who's in love with another girl. Cute, teenage drama stuff. I sing along, because I'm a goof who has grown to like sappy songs that remind me of how I felt when I was 12. (Possibly because I'm subjected to listen to them incessantly at work)
Cue girl customer (GC), a short possibly 15 year old girl, and her friend (F).
GC: OMG I love this song so much, I sooo relate to it.
Me (thinking): (Aww, young love, I remember those days, finding any song that even slightly matched my feelings for a guy and clinging onto it... *nostalgic, mildly amused sigh*)
Me: (outloud, because I'm at work and I get paid to annoy talk to customers) Aww, have you got someone you like then?
GC: Yeah, but he's got a bitch girlfriend.
Me: Well that sucks! What's his name?
GC (welling up): Justin Bieber!
Me (inner, thankfully not outer, reaction): *cringe*
F (comforting voice): Oh sweetie, he's sure to dump her soon, she's such a slag!
Me: (purposefully cause a landslide to have several books fall on the floor at once in order to avoid continuing the conversation)
Don't get me wrong, I certainly went through my "celebrity crush" phase (and occasionally slip back into it again) but I still have to laugh at people, and at myself, for getting so caught up in the attraction of random public figures. I remember telling my mum when I was 11 that I'd love to have a poster of Leonardo di Caprio on my ceiling so that if it fell off it would mean he would be on top of me.
Ahh, young love, indeed.
December 6th, 2011 - 03:41
OMG Girlz are a mini version of TLC soo y’all hating but they get compared to LEGENDS Hate on someone else then 3 Girls doing what they love.
December 6th, 2011 - 20:50
I wasn’t actually hating at all
I was amused, yes, but I thought it was cute, not something to hate on.
I know a lot of girls who get hated on for liking certain celebrities, and that frustrates me, (even though the girls in this post did amuse me). This is the only generation of young girls who have been trolled so much for simply having celeb crushes. As someone who used to be one of those girls back in my day, with my own celeb crushes, that makes me feel pretty sad.
December 19th, 2011 - 14:00
Cherish everything related to Taylor Swift! Thank you for posting!