Bye Bye Birdie!!
I just recently watched the movie Bye, Bye Birdie and it is a pretty old movie that was remade in 1995. The movie is about a pop singer, Conrad Birdie, who is every girls fantasy man. Every young woman wants to meet him they only problem is he is being drafted into the army. To make one last big bang before he leave his manager plans to pick one lucky girl, Kim Mackavy, to get a kiss from Conrad Birdie. A kiss that will send him off into the hands of uncle Sam. This sends his status into an even bigger craze sweeping through the nation, and especially Sweet Apple where Kim lives.
This movie really got me thinking about about how obsessed girls can get when it comes to teen superstars. These girls are all apart of fan cubs in which they take pledges to love Conrad and practice their screams for when they see him on the television or hear his songs on the radio. I mean we all have seen those girls who scream and cry at concerts just being able to see and be in the general presence of thier favorite superstars. Girls who will camp out over night just to be the first to get their CDs signed by the band. I see this craze coming back in full force when it comes to the Jonas Brothers. What has this world come to that we have become obsessed with the thought that could never be?
I truly believe that girls these days need to focus more on reality and they everyday, rather then the fantasy idea that one day they might be in the presence of a superstar. Girls are growing up too fast. Thinking too much about boys and wanting to rush into relationships, or even just thinking about getting in a relationship. We need to help set a role model for younger girls to show them how they should make the most of being a kid because there is so much time for them to grow up, there is no hurry.
