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And Finally
1D mum deals with Twitter abuse
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 27 March 2012
Every pop star loves their fans, we all know that. “My fans are the best” they’ll say in interviews, “I love my fans” they’ll declare at award ceremonies, “I owe everything to my wonderful fans” they’ll have their ghost writer say in 67 different manifestations in their ‘autobiography’.
But let’s be honest, if there is just one single thing that Facebook and Twitter have unequivocally confirmed, it’s that a lot of young pop fans are self-centred, whiney, bitches with no sense of proportion and only a limited grip on reality.
It’s the hormones probably. I’m sure the Bieber/Brown/1D fans are no more or less crazy than those teenage girls (and there’s plenty of obnoxious guys on the social networks, but most of the crazy teen pop fans are girls) than those who, in days gone by, obsessed over N Sync, New Kids, Bros, Wham, The Bay City Rollers, The Osmonds and/or the early career Beatles.
It’s just that former fans of those old groups don’t have Facebook timelines to record for eternity all their insane declarations of unrequited love, insistences that their hero’s particular Autotuned take on ‘Guetta Standard Seven’ is some sort of musical genius, and unsavoury insults and death threats against detractors or those closer to their idols.
What fun today’s generation of pop fan teens will have in 15 years times, scrolling down their Facebook page or Twitter stream and recalling how they once called Harry Styles’ mum a big boobed bitch. Happy days.
Actually, in this case it was a One Direction hater who recently sent some Twitter bile to Style’s mother Anne Cox, though the pop haters are often as crazy as the fans (and the hate for one pop act frequently stems from a love for another). In the latest Twitter insult to be sent to a 1D family member or girlfriend, tweeter @1DAreShit told Cox “I hope you’ll die because you are a bitch. Harry’s mum has big boobs and a big bottom she looks like a bitch”.
We only report on this here because we are proposing that Cox’s reply becomes the default response to any pop-related Twitter insult – she responded simply “I hope you find inner peace someday”. Which isn’t as snappy as “oh fuck off”, but does the job much better we think.
