Drugs be drugs whoever takes them! (Popstars and Drugs - What's your opinion?)

Member Name: oopsy-daisy

Product:	Popstars and Drugs - What's your opinion?
Date:	06/07/01 (256 review reads)
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Advantages: None. The media makes a big issue but it doesn't help anyone.

Disadvantages: Pop stars get a rough time for being normal.

Pop stars do pop, this does not in any way mean that they shouldn't do drugs if they choose to do so. Many people would say that these pop stars are influencing children and they could make drugs fashionable . I think this is sooooooo wrong. I mean look at how many people who aren't in the music industry, but still could influence children. Actors such as Matthew Perry( Chandler from friends) and Robert Downey Jr.( from films and ally McBeal fame) have been in and out of rehab from drug addiction more than Jordan's been in the operating theatre(and it would take a lot!)These actors, along with too many others too mention, have had drug problems but they never seem to be accused as much as the Pop stars.

I don't like Pop music very much but i think they do get a rough ride when it comes to the subject of drugs and the media. Look at those in other music genres, for example those in the punk/metal and alternative catagories. Bands such as (Hed)pe, Pennywise and System of a down openly admit to drug use in magazines such as Rock sound and Kerrang!But they don't get the same amount of media attention. In a recent edition of Kerrang! Shifty Shellshock(bad name i know) from the band CrazyTown admitted to taking pills and and smoking cannibis but there havn't been any uproars in the media(to my knoledge)about this. With the rise of young and 'impressionable' children liking Nu-metal there could have been loads of teens reading that article but no-one batters an eyelid.

There is not a certain type of person who takes drugs. There is not a certain type of music that drugs predominantly appear in. So why is it that the media insist on covering pop stars? You could say that the media insists on covering these stories, because some popstars nowadays are verging away from the stereotypical popstar behaviour of smiling on cue and being perfect. But in this society where lines of distinction between pop and rock are being
distorted, it shouldn't be any surprise that pop and rock are mixing, and so are the cultures in these genres.It's completely up to the media that drugs and music is still a big issue, and they are responsible for the amount of hassle that pop stars are getting, when they are just being normal people who have they're own choices.

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