Re: Celebrities reimagined as just folk

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Madonna's my age (as are a great number of ordinary people I know). This looks a good 10-15 years older.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 11-29-17 4:29 PM
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I have so many feelings about this.

1. The photo of Britney does not seem particularly mean-spirited, at least no more so than the ones of Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton, or The Situation.

2. This has a weird "lost in time" feel to it. Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton, and Ashlee Simpson indicate that it is 2004. The Situation is there, so it is after 2009. But Kim and Kanye are paired so it is like...2012? And everything about Jessica Simpson, except Jessica Simpson, says 1992. It is oddly disorienting.

3. That is exactly what Blake Lively is going to look like in her People magazine spread with her possibly yet-unborn movie star daughter in thirty years.

4. Are we 100% sure that that is not an unaltered recent photo of John Travolta?


Posted by: L. | Link to this comment | 11-29-17 4:30 PM
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Ordinary folk are ghastly, hideous nightmares? Sounds about right.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 11-29-17 4:33 PM
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I usually think of them more as ghastly, hideous nightmares on the inside, to be clear.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 11-29-17 4:36 PM
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And consider myself part of the ordinary folk. Honestly, good on celebrities for at least having one part of themselves (the outside) that's not a ghastly, hideous nightmare.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 11-29-17 4:40 PM
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Ordinary folk are overweight?


Posted by: chris s | Link to this comment | 11-29-17 5:00 PM
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6: Yes


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 11-29-17 5:20 PM
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Nicki Minaj - who I had never heard of - looks pretty great as an ordinary person.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 11-29-17 5:20 PM
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I like a lot of these actually. Exception: Madonna is way off. Too far with that one.

And given all the others, Jessica Simpson's ordinary person being thinner than the real Jessica Simpson must be a joke?


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 11-29-17 5:21 PM
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6:In the U.S. we are mostly overweight.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 11-29-17 5:22 PM
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6: Ordinary American folk.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 11-29-17 5:25 PM
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Another thing about ordinary folk is that their frequently pwned.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 11-29-17 5:26 PM
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12: Also they don't know grammar.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 11-29-17 5:32 PM
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8: For real? I'm out of touch and I know who that is.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-29-17 5:58 PM
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Ordinary people all wear 1980s style clothes and hair?


Posted by: Yoyo | Link to this comment | 11-29-17 7:01 PM
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Pretty much yes, once you leave the cities.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-29-17 7:03 PM
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Speaking of celebrities, by my count Taylor Swift has two songs were she sings "No one has to know" in reference to completing the physical act of love with her. Is that a common thing with the kids these days? Like, "I'm sexually attracted to skinny women with blond hair, but I'll take my secret to my grave" is the new closet?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-29-17 7:13 PM
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14: For real. I also know the names of Taylor Swift and Katy Perry but can't name the songs they sing.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 3:33 AM
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Taylor Swift is the one on the side of the UPS trucks, Katy Perry the employer of Left Shark.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 5:57 AM
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Anyway, all the music I hear is either the FM radio, the Hamilton cast album, or a Youtube song about Trump called "Desperate Cheeto".


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 6:08 AM
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Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez is the most dead-on Texas impersonation that there is.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 7:50 AM
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You're only saying that because she's Hispanic and he's got drinking problems.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 7:53 AM
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All the music I hear is birdsong, Christmas music, and my stepdaughter's horrifically off-key versions of songs from animated musicals.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 7:53 AM
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Real question - when did it happen that rap became totally separate from pop radio? I remember when 50 Cent was big, he was on pop radio, T-Pain was on pop radio, The Game was on pop radio, even the garbage like Yung Joc and the Ying Yang Twins were on pop radio. Now apparently we have lots of good and creative and popular rap music and aside from the occasional extremely watered-down crossover song made for sports stadiums, it isn't on the radio anymore unless you listen to an all-hip-hop station.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 8:07 AM
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24: It's Obama's fault!


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 8:10 AM
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24 - iHeart decided on a separate hip-hop format a few years ago and bought or changed over some stations tonhip-hop only, and don't want to compete against themselves. At least part of the story.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 8:14 AM
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I've been wondering that too.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 8:18 AM
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All the music I hear is a classical audio-only TV channel. It's like radio, but without the ads, jingles, and idiots.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 8:21 AM
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It's started playing Christmas carols (in November FFS) but they're actual carols, with choirs and organs, which I love.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 8:23 AM
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Without the idiots, I don't hear Florida news.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 8:23 AM
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I haven't missed the Florida news, tbh.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 8:24 AM
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Not only was mean-spiritedness fairly blatant in some cases, it was fine-grained. I definitely had the impression that the creator of that site hated Sarah Jessica Parker more than Tom Cruise but less than Madonna.

It's not "celebrities as ordinary people" so much as "celebrities with no makeup, dressed like slobs and/or exactly 20 years out of style, and with between 20-100 extra pounds." Most ordinary people only have two out of those three at any time.


Posted by: Cyrus | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 8:37 AM
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Thank you iHeartRadio for widening the already abyssal generation gap and the FCC for letting iHeartRadio own 18 stations in every city to let them microtarget in such wise.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 8:37 AM
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I'm sure 32 is completely correct.

The non-mean-spirited take on it comes from generally feeling warmly towards people who are overweight, not wearing make up, and 20 years out of date. I'm sure the creator of this does not feel kindly to such people, but that doesn't keep me from putting a warmer lens on the project.

I still don't know why I find it worth posting or interesting.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 8:41 AM
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Agree with 32 - it was the simultaneous impact of all of these that seemed overdone.


Posted by: chris.stiles@gmail.com | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 8:46 AM
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I've never knowingly heard a Taylor Swift song.


Posted by: NW | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 8:58 AM
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That's why old Taylor Swift is dead.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 9:01 AM
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Is it like the "I don't believe in fairies" thing?


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 9:03 AM
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2.last: Travolta? What about Sean Penn? He's basically just grown up Spicoli, just like in real life.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 11-30-17 12:44 PM
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