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So today one of my favourite celebrity commited suicide and I am not taking this news well. I have been crying alot and cant focus on anything at all. I wanna get over it but its too hard. It feels really empty.
Kim Jong-hyun of SHINee, right?
If you want to feel really sad, investigate how kpop stars are treated when they're alive. The glossy image you see and love so much covers a pretty shitty reality. Kpop stars are treated like commodities - almost slaves - by their management companies, and the fans (you, in other words) support that system.
The stars usually don't talk about this publicly because they know a ten ton legal hammer will land on their heads if they do and their lives will be ruined. It looks like Kim Jong-hyun was so desperate to get out of the situation he found himself in that he saw only one way out.
Go ahead and wail and moan and cry and feel like this is the worst day in your life, but when you're done being all dramatic and pathetic, think about the tiny part you played in supporting the system that took Kim Jong-hyun to that place.
I do know the hardships they have to go through. I am not an immature kpop fan who goes for all the glitter and gold I see. I am not saying that what you mentioned is a lie. Many are treated badly but its not every company. Alot of k-idols have talked about their mental health. Its not just the kpop industry but the Korean society too. Suicide is a taboo topic and this is me talking with my experience with korean people and culture. And what? I am pathetic and being dramatic for crying over his death? Crying for someone who helped me through hard times and helped me get a hold of my life is pathetic? I cried becuase I genuinely liked him as a person and not his abs or handsome face and could relate to him eventhough I didnt know him personally.
If you have a lot of good memories listening to shinee (I'm assuming that's what you're talking about) I'd say it's normal ..
I felt the same when Chester Bennington died
Yes it is shinee. I had known them for a year now. I had been crying so much. The pain is unbearable. 😭😭😭😭
I understand completely. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being upset over a celebrity you love dying, millions of people cried over Elvis' death and I always saw that as totally acceptable. It's even more understandable to be upset over hearing that the celeb's death was suicide, which often sadly has been how celebs have ended up. Robin Williams, Heath Ledger, Kurt Cobain, and further back Marilyn Monroe. Or accidental overdose deaths that weren't believed to be suicides, or you could just call them accidental suicides from overdose such as Whitney Houston, Corey Haim, River Phoenix, and further back Judy Garland. Either way, it's sad to lose a loved celeb and there's nothing wrong with sheading a few tears about it.
Yeah, it's normal.I heard about his death it's sad.But I'm sure you'll get over it. Meanwhile enjoy some Bts 🌸
Okay,I personally feel some kind of loss but at the end of the day..my life goes on..much love to Paul walker and Michael Jackson..
Lmao I didnt ask any personal question about you. How does ny ethnicity relate to the question?
because a lot of people feel a connection with people from their same ethnicity
I think that's true sometimes to a point, due to that just being a matter of feeling a stronger connection towards someone that you know you have more in common with. But, with celebrities, it's not usually that significant of a factor. I'm sure that not only black people mourned Whitney Houston's death, same with not only white people on Robin Williams' death. There's a universal love towards the big stars.
I think it depends how much you have invested (emotionally I mean) in that celebrity to begin with.
If it's one who has really impacted your life in a big way with their contribution to art, then yeah it makes sense to be sad when they go.
Look at when some of the legends passed. Grown men were crying when Michael Jackson passed, and the Latino community in Texas went into deep grief for Selena (more understandably, given the way her life was taken so young).
My little sister is going through the same thing right now, personally I don't get it, but she as absolutely distraught about some kpop singer topping themselves (don't know name, lol)
It's okay to be sad, but whoever died that you are sad about, remember that you didn't know them.
You do know them, they just didn't know you. I wonder sometimes what it would be like to have so many people I never met or heard of know my name and know so much about me. My face is so familair to them and I don't even know they exist.
I disagree. I might know them in person but i had known them enough to be attached to them. Its not that simple. I feel your sisters pain.