Well I was a nutcase for the Bay City Rollers when I was a pre-teen. My sister and I shared a room and we spent our allowance on records, Teen Beat and Tiger Beat magazines and fought over wall space for centerfolds of our favorite obsessions (she was into Shawn Cassidy). But we grew out of that....I think our mainstream culture has glommed on to celebrity worship ever since mass media became a thing. I pretty much unhooked from all that about the time I became a conservative, had young kids, a full time job and going to school and no time to care. Last time I saw a list of Academy Awards nominees I didn't even know a quarter of them.
Same here in Indiana. And I’m sure elsewhere too. It’s very cult-like imo 😕
Well I was a nutcase for the Bay City Rollers when I was a pre-teen. My sister and I shared a room and we spent our allowance on records, Teen Beat and Tiger Beat magazines and fought over wall space for centerfolds of our favorite obsessions (she was into Shawn Cassidy). But we grew out of that....I think our mainstream culture has glommed on to celebrity worship ever since mass media became a thing. I pretty much unhooked from all that about the time I became a conservative, had young kids, a full time job and going to school and no time to care. Last time I saw a list of Academy Awards nominees I didn't even know a quarter of them.