Monday, June 22, 2009

Too Much Jonas?

I'm a proud subscriber of Seventeen magazine. I used to eagerly check the mailbox at the beginning of each month to find out who the inspiring celebrity on the cover was for each new issue. Then the June issue arrived a few weeks ago. Whose faces were staring at me? The Jonas Brothers! The cover boasted a full-size pull-out poster inside, spanning two pages! What happened to courageous, ambitious women and fascinating interviews? Wasting pages on posters of poster boys? Sure, they have an exciting-enough story, of climbing to the top without those Hollywood connections. According to the article's introduction, they all believe in "living like [they]'re at the bottom, even if [they]'re at the top," the trio is anything but living easy. Private jets, motorcycle and sidecar, thousands of pairs of jeans. Hypocrisy doesn't exactly spell R-O-L-E M-O-D-E-L to me. And the world has already had too much Jonas. They're everywhere! On shirts, camping gear, lunchboxes, etc! What happened to artists working for the music (see title link)? I honestly don't want my money going toward producing a poster so large that I can stare at every stitch in their pants.

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