OK, so we've seen my Top 10 Breakups of 2010, and my Top 10 Hookups of 2010 so far! and we all know I love pop culture – I love everything about pop culture, but this year there have been some things that I’m just tired of seeing. I mean, this has been the year when I’ve had enough! So here is my list of the Top 10 Most Overexposed of 2010!
10. Sarah Palin
OK, I’m Canadian so I don’t really get the fascination with this woman, but she seems like a moron to me. And I don’t mean that in the mean way, I mean it in the ‘don’t let your kids play with her kids because they might catch the dumbness’ way. I mean, what does it say about you when people are more fascinated by the ‘Tina Fey’ you than the real you? Honestly – and now she has her own reality show?! WHY??? People, just refudiate Sarah Palin.
9. Dancing With the Stars
First of all, I’m renaming this show ‘Dancing with the wannabe Z-Listers’ – has a nice ring to it. And speaking of Sarah Palin, I think that the fact that her unwed teen mom of a daughter, Bristol, landed a spot on the show this year just goes to show you how appropriate my new name is! And while I don’t doubt that she did wonders for the show’s ratings – she also killed any chance of me ever watching it again. OK to be honest I never watched it in the first place except to see Kate Gosselin murder the Bossa Nova once, but that was it. Please let this show end, and take ‘Skating with the Stars with it’!
8. Lady Gaga
Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Gaga, but it seems that this year it’s been a bit of Gaga overload. Seriously – what else can she do? Ozzy Osbourne recently said that Gaga needs to go away for a bit, just to get interesting again. I mean, once you wear a dress made out of meat, what’s left to do?!
7. Kate Gosselin
Oh, how it pains me to include Kate on this list, but I must! Honestly, haven’t we all had enough of Kate Gosselin?! Obviously the woman is far too self absorbed to even understand that she had the world at her feet and she couldn’t even take enough time to focus on something other than her spray tan to capitalize on it. Kate needs to go back to Pennsylvania and focus on those kids. And stop with the trips to Mystic Tan.
6. Lindsay Lohan/Paris Hilton
If I never read about Lindsay Lohan ever again it will be too soon. How many times can one person fuck up their life and still demand another chance?! Lilo has proven that she’s still just an entitled brat who thinks that the world owes her something. Over.Her. I also don’t know why Paris Hilton is famous. And I don’t want to. Please make her go away. And make her take her zoo of pets with her.
5. Speidi
Ah yes, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag have made a living out of keeping themselves in the tabloids, with Montag even going so far as mutilating her body in hopes of landing a cover story (which she did). After being dethroned from their position of MTV trainwreck by Jersey Shore, Speidi staged a fake break up to try and garner some attention. Then Spencer tried to pretend he was all crazy and even grew a Grizzly Adams beard (because we all know in Hollywood that when the facial hair comes out you must be crazy) but, when that didn’t work the couple reunited. Because as we all know, two morons are better than one! Now Montag is selling her ‘poor me’ story to the tabloids once again and Spencer is still trying to get attention by trashing Lauren Conrad on Twitter because he knows that she’s the only thing that ever made him relevant. Tick Tock Speidi, I think your 15 minutes are up.
4. Miley Cyrus
You know, I get that she’s growing up, but it really drives me crazy when these kids who have the world at their feet feel the need to do every clichéd ‘bad girl’ move to try and convince us all how grown up they really are. Sexy new music video – check. Racy pictures leaked online – check. Video smoking strange substance leaked – check. Ridiculous interviews speaking about how ‘deep’ and ‘mature’ you are – check. Over it already. And that mouth – that mouth makes me want to punch a wall, seriously. Come back when you really are grown up.
3. Taylor Momsen
Oh Little J, 2010 has certainly been quite the year for you! The former Gossip Girl star, at the ripe old age of 17 – waxed poetic about her love of sex toys, masturbation, smoking and anything else that made her sound ‘badass’. She also perfected the ‘drunk, homeless tramp’ look. And the entire time it really just made me wonder where her mother was?! The end of the year found Momsen out of a job on Gossip Girl, dropped by her agency and complaining about how she’s only ever been a ‘product’. That’s one product I’d like to return!
2. Jersey Shore
Not the show! I love the show in all of its incredible terrible-ness. What I need to be done with is ‘The Situation’s and The Snooki’s’ that are emerging from Jersey Shore. I don’t want to see ‘The Situation’ on another reality show, and I don’t want to see Snooki’s orange face on anything but my TV screen looking for juice heads. Jersey Shore named as one of Barbara Walter’s 10 Most Fascinating of 2010?! I don’t think so. Time for these kids to be put back in their place – which is the Jersey Shore.
1. Teen Mom
Oh if there was ever a phenomenon that had to go away, it’s this one. MTV started with a show called 16 and Pregnant that followed young girls through their pregnancies. Then they graduation to Teen Mom, where they were followed through their new lives as teen mothers. And folks, this show is not pretty. But what’s worse is that these girls are landing themselves on cover after cover of the weeklies and I have to think that the new ‘cast’ members look at landing a spot on this show as a real coup. Glamorizing teen pregnancy? – You bet your ass it is!
Sure, for those of us older than anything that ends in ‘teen’ we can see the show as something that illustrates how hard it is to be a parent when you’re a child yourself. But for those who are kids – in this generation that’s obsessed with reality TV, and where anyone (but me apparently) can get their own reality show – this is totally glamorizing teen pregnancy. And it has to stop.
So there you have it, my list of the most over-exposed of 2010! What did you think – did I miss anything? Stay tuned, because tomorrow I’ll be giving you my Top 10 Moments of 2010!
Scene and Heard
Confessions of a Pop Culture Mummy
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