Why is everyone obsessed with disney channel stars?

Question

Some people in like highschool are so obsessed with the jonas brothers and salena gomez and demi lavato and miley cyrus and the "miley and mandy show". they are on disney channel for 13 year olds....whats the craze with these people? dont give me stupid answers like "they are so hot!" or "they are so cool!"

like honestly, are u just following the hottest "wal mart" fasions or do you really like teen pop??

Answer 1

Enough with the "oh my Gawd" rhetoric. It isn't necessary. This is a practical matter.

Why are these people "celebrated"?

Because they are positioned, groomed and sold as a product. Haven't you ever noticed that the the back packs, t-shirts, dolls, posters, etc. come out not long after the show begins to go into heavy-rotation promotion? The junks is available immediately, irregardless of whether or not anyone wants it. (I've seen a few humorous misfires, shelves filled with stuff that nobody would touch, no matter the massive marketing campaigns.)

The show and the "star" are, in their entirety, a product and the kids who this product is aimed at are being sold  "Look! It's popular! Be popular!"

As for the "stars"? Luck, an adequate talent and who ya know.

Miley Cyrus is stunningly ordinary. She looks like every high-school girl in my city. (That might be a selling point in itself. Think about it.) Her father has some name-recognition, he stars in a Disney-template sit-com, thus she has some recognition. She was fixed up, shined up, given the necessary training and sold as a product. Disney is famous for this. They make and sell a disposable product. Why complain? Marketing is not a foreign concept anywhere and the world clamours for newer/faster/brighter/louder. (Yah, Daft Punk. They met in school and didn't need Disney. Shocking, I know.)

Sometimes people will supersede the system. Some Disney prefab- band members have taken their talent and jagged off onto their own creative path, using the machine's springboard to move them ahead. Most of them will fade into obscurity. It's kinda hard, if you think about it. Disney takes a kid with some talent or proper connections/associations, drops them into the star machine, retools them, sells them and when they hit the wall (Britney Spears?), the Next Big Thing is on the stage and the "star" has to piece themselves back together, trying to figure out what pieces were pasted over their faces and which ones actually belong to them.