I actually feel kind of bad for the guy tbh. His parents robbed him blind, he has so many mental health issues that likely weren't helped by the abuse he suffered.
And to top it all off, as an artist, he's been completely stopped from evolving because his fans still view him as if he were a child.
I'm not a fan of his genre - but he's not completely untalented. If you listen to some of his more recent music he's tried to come back, and even when his stuff is good, he just can't. His fans want the old Aaron carter.
He actually complained about it a while back before going off the deep end:
“The craziest thing is, I lost it all,” Carter says matter-of-factly as the smell of pot lingers in the air. (Okay, so maybe he pregames with a little more than just Ensure: “I surround myself with good people, people who don’t do drugs and crazy stuff,” he says. “We smoke weed, that’s it.”)
“It all” refers to money, which Carter lost to debt; he filed for bankruptcy at age 25 with less than $1,000 to his name. It refers to family: Sister Leslie Carter died in 2012 of a drug overdose, and his father, Robert Gene “Bob” Carter, died in 2017 of a heart attack. It refers to his reputation, which took a nosedive once he became an adult and was no longer the Disney Channel-approved baby face that fans grew to love.
Or:
This perceived disconnect is a problem that extends to his own fans, who sometimes struggle to accept the older version of the star they grew up watching. “They want me to live in this nostalgic little toy store,” he says. “They want me to stay in their attic like an ornament so that when it’s Christmastime, they can put their old ornament back on the tree. I’m not an ornament.”
He goes on to point out the hypocrisy he sees in fans wanting him to still be 12-years-old. “Sometimes you’re screaming at me, ‘I Want Candy,’ but first of all” -- he’s addressing them directly now, shaking his head, his voice rising -- “you’re only doing that because you’re drunk. You used to drink Capri Suns and now you’re drinking beer. I’m not judging you for that. I’m not telling you, hey, go drink a Capri Sun, motherfucker! Go eat a fuckin’ Dunkaroo, bitch! I’m not doing that.”
You'd probably be pretty fucked up too if your parents scammed you out of likely over 70 million dollars and your fans refuse to let you move on.
Contrary to popular belief, we at the Observer actually don’t sit in our ivory towers, looking down at all the lay folk with scorn and disapproval as we kick it with George Soros and other members of the Deep State. We’re all just regular people like you who are simply trying to make it through this cosmic fluke of an existence with dignity and self-determination.
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3 aduketsavar 2019-12-08
Driving mentally ill to 13 reasons themselves via making fun of them is my favorite pasttime and I will never, ever stop that
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1 Goes_Down_on_Women 2019-12-08
Ahh and there it is.
1 ashleychudd 2019-12-08
It’s nice of them to tell us they’re crazy at the beginning of the article.
1 professorshillphd 2019-12-08
I actually feel kind of bad for the guy tbh. His parents robbed him blind, he has so many mental health issues that likely weren't helped by the abuse he suffered.
And to top it all off, as an artist, he's been completely stopped from evolving because his fans still view him as if he were a child.
I'm not a fan of his genre - but he's not completely untalented. If you listen to some of his more recent music he's tried to come back, and even when his stuff is good, he just can't. His fans want the old Aaron carter.
He actually complained about it a while back before going off the deep end:
Or:
You'd probably be pretty fucked up too if your parents scammed you out of likely over 70 million dollars and your fans refuse to let you move on.
1 LongPostBot 2019-12-08
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1 Kat_B0T 2019-12-08
🤣
2 Lysis10 2019-12-08
Just 95% untalented, so not completely.
1 Kat_B0T 2019-12-08
Ps being a nsync fan of really ties some things together tbh
1 Lysis10 2019-12-08
PS seems like a Backstreet Boys kinda guy.
1 Kat_B0T 2019-12-08
It’s about the same thing tbf. I’m sure he was a fan of both
1 tzgnilki 2019-12-08
he's rubbing shoulders with Cx rejects at the moment
probably won't end well
1 iamredpill 2019-12-08
Wow, maybe journalists are people, after all.
2 jackcaboose 2019-12-08
even as a joke it's disgusting to say such a thing
5 theworstever 2019-12-08
It makes it sound like they do have an ivory tower because it comes off so condescending.
2 TrailerParkRide 2019-12-08
It's a free independent publication in a large American metro. Condescension is a staple of the medium.
1 BonerDonorKebab 2019-12-08
not seeing the drama here.
1 MidAirMan 2019-12-08
As much as I want to comment on the article and Aaron Carter, I can't get past how much I love OP's handle.