Out of control fans: This is how they try to control stars like Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish

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Two of the most internationally successful pop stars now have to defend themselves against their own fans. First up is US singer Taylor Swift (33), who is now the world’s most successful singer ever. She recently worked with New York shooting star rapper Ice Spice (23, real name: Isis Naija Gaston) and is therefore in the middle of a real shitstorm. Because “Ice Spice” is black and Swift seems to have a new relationship with a man who is said to have made racist remarks: Matt Healy (34), singer of pop group The 1975 and friend of violent provocation, including the Hitler salute. As a result, Swift is currently losing her fans and followers on social media. Just like pop star Billie Eilish (21). She no longer dresses in the loose youthful hip-hop style she used to be, but presents herself in feminine clothing. She, too, has lost a lot of followers and publicly calls her resentful ex-fans “idiots”.

Increasingly, fans seem to want to dictate to female idols how they dress, who they work with, or even whom they’re in a relationship with – those who don’t follow will be deprived of fan love. Relationship expert Caroline Fux knows why: “The fans kind of have a relationship with an artificial character, which offers a lot of room for interpretation and definition.” So, based on a few external factors, you can largely piece together what the idol should be like and think you know them. “But real people change. If you’re faced with a fait accompli of that change in a one-sided relationship like a fan experiences with their idol, it feels like betrayal or abandonment in a real relationship,” says Fux.

Social media, youth, women’s roles

Additionally, many of the fans are very young and relying on role models at a stage where they seek their identity outside of their parents’ home. “If these change, it’s part of his self-created identity, broken so to speak” – and that hurts. This affects women more than men because the idea of ​​what a woman should be like is still more prevalent in society than men – “but unfortunately they feel the same pressure more and more because of beauty ideals from social media,” she says. fux. By the way, the phenomenon isn’t actually new – “the only thing that’s new is that everyone has a say on social media”. And you have to put everything into perspective, says Fux: “If you have millions of followers, there’s a good chance there are actually a few thousand ‘dumbs’ among them.”

Source : Blick