Friday, February 1, 2008

What do we expect?

Saw a hillarious video of a woman on "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader." She was pretty sure that Europe was a country, but had never heard of Budapest. She did NOT win money that I know of. Turns out the woman was country singer Kelley Pickler. Poor Kelley. Obviously she skipped school for guitar lessons.

Sort of begs the question: Why do we expect entertainers to do anything but entertain us? While I'm on this subject, since when does being an entertainer make you any more adroit at understanding issues than the average Joe? Who cares what the Baldwin boys think about what happens in Washington, or anywhere else for that matter?

Note to the media: stop asking performers what they think about anything, we don't care! We just want them to make us happy, not tell us what to think.

2 comments:

kristi noser said...

Good thing that girl is cute and can sing, huh?
I loved that she thought a piccolo was not a wind instrument because it started with a "p". Yeah.

kristi said...

AMEN!