Ha! That gravitational pull thing made me laugh, although I feel a bit guilty about that.:P
I really don't know. You see a lot of people complaining how mainstream musicians (and actors, etc.) are fake, so you'd think a "real" person wouldn't get so much hate.
I think when someone becomes massively popular, there tends to be a backlash of people who feel they need to pull it down to size or something. She's an easy target, I guess. As are Twilight and Justin Bieber. Just confusing to me that the "fake" and "talentless" celebrities (like Bieber) are insulted by being called fake and talentless, yet when someone fairly talented and "real" comes along, they criticise her for not fitting a little mold of what's considered attractive (and if she did she'd no doubt be called fake for it). Blah, people are confusing!:S Although, I sense that I'm massively off with this one.
I think that's certainly a big part of it (and now I want to make a joke about Adele being "big"... I think it must be a getting worse :P). Because people in the media tend to be treated with equal praise, maybe people in general are losing their ability to discern the celebrities who are actually worthy of praise from those who aren't. That would fit in exactly with what you're saying.
I certainly have no idea what I'm talking about here, so your guess is as good as mine. People tend to hold celebrities up to a much higher standard than everyone else (and maybe they should, since they're such influential role models), and it looks like a lot of them just can't win. You're either too fat or too thin, too shy or too arrogant, too posh or too much of a chav... walking the line must be very difficult and I don't envy them. It seems as if the celebrities who are least criticised are the ones who appear most like "normal people" - comedians are a good example. How can a musician or an actor even appear like a "normal person" when they get so much constant media attention, so how can they ever be liked? Hmm.
Is it normal that Adele is a magnet for hatred?
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Ha! That gravitational pull thing made me laugh, although I feel a bit guilty about that.:P
I really don't know. You see a lot of people complaining how mainstream musicians (and actors, etc.) are fake, so you'd think a "real" person wouldn't get so much hate.
I think when someone becomes massively popular, there tends to be a backlash of people who feel they need to pull it down to size or something. She's an easy target, I guess. As are Twilight and Justin Bieber. Just confusing to me that the "fake" and "talentless" celebrities (like Bieber) are insulted by being called fake and talentless, yet when someone fairly talented and "real" comes along, they criticise her for not fitting a little mold of what's considered attractive (and if she did she'd no doubt be called fake for it). Blah, people are confusing!:S Although, I sense that I'm massively off with this one.
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I think that's certainly a big part of it (and now I want to make a joke about Adele being "big"... I think it must be a getting worse :P). Because people in the media tend to be treated with equal praise, maybe people in general are losing their ability to discern the celebrities who are actually worthy of praise from those who aren't. That would fit in exactly with what you're saying.
I certainly have no idea what I'm talking about here, so your guess is as good as mine. People tend to hold celebrities up to a much higher standard than everyone else (and maybe they should, since they're such influential role models), and it looks like a lot of them just can't win. You're either too fat or too thin, too shy or too arrogant, too posh or too much of a chav... walking the line must be very difficult and I don't envy them. It seems as if the celebrities who are least criticised are the ones who appear most like "normal people" - comedians are a good example. How can a musician or an actor even appear like a "normal person" when they get so much constant media attention, so how can they ever be liked? Hmm.