Fans jump all over celebrities all the time, full of hero worship. They love their music, their style; they want to look like them – they wish they could be them. In short they want their lives, because they believe those lives are fabulous and oh so perfect.
There are ‘fan armies.’ Mariah Carey has her ‘Lambs’; Beyoncé her ‘Beyhive’; Justin Bieber his ‘Beliebers’; Rihanna her ‘Navy’; Taylor Swift her ‘Swifties’; Bruno Mars his ‘Hooligans’ (yes really); Nicki Minaj her ‘Barbz’ and on and on. ‘Army’ really spells out only part of what they do. Yes they are ready to go to war with anyone who disses their heroes, but they spend a lot more time promoting them on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, on blogs; anywhere they can find space on the world wide web and there’s a lot of that. Really, some of these folks should be paid, they do so much PR; burnishing their heroes bright spots and jumping to their defence if and whenever someone as much as hints at one of their flaws.
And they do have those. As much as the fans might choose to live in denial, celebrities have their insecurities and they make mistakes. What makes their lives a bit difficult is that because of the fans need to know their every move, they practically live in glass bowls so that their insecurities must be carefully masked at all times and their mistakes – often they simply cannot even admit that they might have
