the cuddly entertainment industry
Monday, June 25, 2007 (1:12 PM)
for some reason, i can't understand why people in the entertainment industry like to hug so much. perhaps it's due to the lonely nature of their job. as stef sun has said in an interview, no matter how much you try to hide it, it will hop out every now and then and tell you, "hey! you're lonely."
and being famous doesn't help much. in fact, it makes things a lot more inconvenient. if you try to be the way you were before you get famous and not smile or wave to people on the streets, they start to spread rumours of you being snobbish. these people probably have no life. zilch. they can't bear the thought of having someone not responding to them.
so the campus superstar has been going on for a couple of weeks or so and every now and then, we see the contestants hugging one another. these people obviously do not behave like this usually but why's that so when they go on national television? is it a rule of thumb? or does it look cool to be hugging here and there?
then when contestants get eliminated from the lack of votes, everyone else cries. whether or not the eliminated contestants cry is not of importance. the important thing is, as my mum suggests, that the eliminated contestant is upset and disappointed enough to get knocked out. on top of that, they still have to console the ones who go through to the next round and their fans perhaps.
the entertainment industry sure is a mind-boggling one. or perhaps it's mankind that's unfathomable. or perhaps, under the scrutiny of the general public, the world of entertainment ultimately falls inevitably into the arena of hypocrisy where the rule of the thumb is hide your true self or sink.