What We Can Learn from Cancel Culture.
Where has the humanity for high-profile individuals gone?
There are many people who may have wished or thought about how great it would be to be famous. Well, you may want to think twice & have to really ask yourself: are you ready and willing to take the kind of criticism, judgment, and expectation that comes with being someone famous? Are you someone that can live under the scrutiny of the public eye?
Whether in the music industry, fashion industry, or acting industry, artists already have a lot of pressure and expectations they place on themselves. Then on top of that pressure and self-criticism, they have to constantly produce work that will capture the public's attention based on what may be trending at the moment. If you consider yourself an expert on trends then you know that trends are constantly changing.
"One day you're in and the next you're out." - Heidi Klum
We sometimes forget that our favorite entertainers and influencers are people too. There comes a time when you have to take off rose-colored glasses and realize that celebrities aren't as perfect as we want them to be.
Cardi B, Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, one of the most iconic women rappers & influencers of this decade took the entertainment industry by storm. Cardi B's story is truly one of, "starting from the bottom and now we're here." Many of us fell in love with Cardi B, when she was coming up as an influencer on social media. Her time on Love & Hip Hop propelled her further into the limelight as she looked to pursue her career in the music industry. Cardi B has experienced many successes since her first debut and has even built a family with the love of her life whom she married, Off Set from Migos. Of course, not everything that we see is picture-perfect.
She shared her frustrations & desire, on social media, about how she wished she wasn't famous at times. “Every day, it’s so sickening like. It’s so f–king annoying. I don’t even want to be f–king famous anymore. I feel like I don’t. I really don’t. I really don’t even care; I just want to make money,” Cardi said in the video.
Personally, I relate to this feeling. Give me the money and my anonymity, please! She continued to share that a big part of the problem is dealing with so many people that want to tear down her career.
“Soon as I buy my f–king house [throws up the peace sign]. I’m just tired of everybody’s bulls–t. I don’t bother anybody. I mind my f–king business. B—he's is popping s–t all the f–king time,” Cardi said.
“I realized, after Halloween, a lot of little girls, they be [sic] looking up to me. They love me and I’m thinking to myself, like, ‘Yo, I really need to be a better example,'” Cardi said in an Instagram video. “But I be [sic] trying to be a better example, though, you know what I’m saying? I’ve been trying to be more PG-13, less rated R.”
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Recently, she's been sharing with fans that they should just focus on getting the money instead of trying to make it into the limelight.
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Actress Kristen Stewart has also been known to express their frustrations and displeasure with being famous.
"Fame is the worst thing in the world. Especially if it’s pointless. When people say, 'I want to be famous' – why? You don’t do anything?" She also added about doing interviews, press conferences, and red carpets, "Having that much human energy thrust at you and then being critically analyzed is obviously disarming." - Harper's Bazaar
During an interview with New York Times in 2015, she didn't appreciate how the paparazzi would follow her around all the time. "It’s really hard — I can’t begin to explain how awful it is. It makes you want to just stop everything sometimes. It makes you want to smash your face into the mirror."
She admitted that the attention her relationship gets in her way professionally. "There’s no amount of songs I can sing or dances I can dance that will prove to them I’m not a monkey," she confessed.
It's a no-brainer that artists appreciate the success that they have experienced throughout their careers and I am sure that we can all agree we love our privacy and want to enjoy the freedom of expressing ourselves without being overly criticized, attacked, held to past versions of ourselves or judged based on another person's opinion on who we should be. We are human and beautifully complicated; there is no one road map.
That being said if you do find yourself in the limelight remember to take care of yourself. Set your boundaries, take moments to pause, give space to evolve, and f*ck all the criticism when you do what's needed to defend & maintain your peace.
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