In case you haven't heard, Madonna and Guy Ritchie are getting divorced. Numerous tabloid magazine covers blasting it out to us have made this fact abundantly clear. It's impossible to miss.
An unintentionally amusing statement originally announced their divorce. It included a sentence asking the media for privacy. Yeah, right. Celebrities can't have it both ways. They can't ask people to watch them constantly, via the media, and then slam the door shut when their life takes a rough turn.
The draw to these stories, I think, is first and foremost, the natural enjoyment we have for watching a car wreck. We like to witness the drama and the excitement. We're fascinated when a celebrity's life takes a downturn.
We also love seeing the answer to the mystery. We've speculated for years on just how anyone could handle being married to Madonna. We wonder how anything healthy could occur in the home of a pop star, especially someone as self-obsessed as Madge.
We're jealous of celebrities. It's understandable. They're rich. They're successful. They seem to have many of things that most of us don't have. Who doesn't want to live such a life?
But we also want their lives to fall apart. We want this partly out of jealousy, but mostly to validate our own existence, our own self-worth. We see Madonna's sad life and we say, "She may be rich and famous, but she doesn't have what I have."
All of that larger-than-life glamour is revealed as what we've always suspected--her life is unrealistic. Madonna likes to pretend that it's possible to be a super successful sex symbol, with an exotic artist's life, full of wealth and privilege. But we know the truth. Even her so-called spiritual side is thrown in question when we see all of the spiteful behavior that they're exhibiting.
But then we see it all come crashing down, and we realize that all the glitz and glamour doesn't mean anything. And for some reason, it's fun to watch this reality check.
An unintentionally amusing statement originally announced their divorce. It included a sentence asking the media for privacy. Yeah, right. Celebrities can't have it both ways. They can't ask people to watch them constantly, via the media, and then slam the door shut when their life takes a rough turn.
The draw to these stories, I think, is first and foremost, the natural enjoyment we have for watching a car wreck. We like to witness the drama and the excitement. We're fascinated when a celebrity's life takes a downturn.
We also love seeing the answer to the mystery. We've speculated for years on just how anyone could handle being married to Madonna. We wonder how anything healthy could occur in the home of a pop star, especially someone as self-obsessed as Madge.
We're jealous of celebrities. It's understandable. They're rich. They're successful. They seem to have many of things that most of us don't have. Who doesn't want to live such a life?
But we also want their lives to fall apart. We want this partly out of jealousy, but mostly to validate our own existence, our own self-worth. We see Madonna's sad life and we say, "She may be rich and famous, but she doesn't have what I have."
All of that larger-than-life glamour is revealed as what we've always suspected--her life is unrealistic. Madonna likes to pretend that it's possible to be a super successful sex symbol, with an exotic artist's life, full of wealth and privilege. But we know the truth. Even her so-called spiritual side is thrown in question when we see all of the spiteful behavior that they're exhibiting.
But then we see it all come crashing down, and we realize that all the glitz and glamour doesn't mean anything. And for some reason, it's fun to watch this reality check.
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