{"id":2239863,"date":"2024-05-08T08:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/celebrities-misery-chic-aesthetic-flows-from-their-spiritual-poverty\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T08:15:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:15:51","slug":"celebrities-misery-chic-aesthetic-flows-from-their-spiritual-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/celebrities-misery-chic-aesthetic-flows-from-their-spiritual-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities Embrace &#8216;Misery Chic&#8217; Style Amid Spiritual Emptiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcelebrities-misery-chic-aesthetic-flows-from-their-spiritual-poverty%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2239863&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article\u2062 discusses how celebrities\u2062 like \u200bBillie Eilish and Kristen Stewart present themselves as unhappy and unattractive in a trend termed &#8220;misery chic.&#8221; It explores the marketing strategy behind this presentation and the societal\u200d factors contributing to the \u2064glorification of unhappiness. The piece emphasizes the warning signals this trend\u200c sends about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/both-sides-of-the-designer-baby-debate-are-missing-something-important-our-humanity\/\" title=\"Both Sides Of The Designer Baby Debate Are Missing Something Important: Our Humanity\">societal values<\/a> and mental well-being. The article delves into the portrayal of celebrities such as Billie Eilish and Kristen Stewart adopting the &#8220;misery chic&#8221; trend, appearing unhappy \u2063and unattractive. It scrutinizes the marketing tactics involved \u200band societal influences fueling the glorification of\u2063 sadness. Additionally, it underscores the important cautionary message\u2062 this trend conveys \u200dregarding societal norms and mental health.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Pop star Billie Eilish has supposedly found her true self, so why does she look so miserable? In a Rolling Stone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft-mental-health-fame-1235003585\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">profile<\/a> to promote her new album, Eilish confirmed that she is into girls and presented herself as a suffering artist, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-team-worried-about-next-big-embarrassment-to-hit-president\/\" title=\"Biden team concerned about future presidential embarrassments\">accompanying photos<\/a> showing her looking dirty and unhappy.<\/p>\n<p>This echoed another Rolling Stone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-features\/kristen-stewart-love-lies-bleeding-collaborations-fiancee-dylan-meyer-1234965161\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">profile<\/a> from earlier this year, in which Kristen Stewart portrayed herself as loudly and angrily gay, proclaiming, \u201cI want to do the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/celebrities-misery-chic-aesthetic-flows-from-their-spiritually-poverty\/\" title=\"Celebrities Embrace 'Misery Chic' Style Amid Spiritual Emptiness\">gayest f-cking thing<\/a> you\u2019ve ever seen in your life.\u201d The accompanying photos also showed Stewart looking unhappy and almost aggressively unattractive (which takes some doing for her).<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1829171397\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-38833312ff83a8139c767ce0d77ba01f fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-38833312ff83a8139c767ce0d77ba01f\"><\/div>\n<p>These profiles are reminiscent of other female celebrities such as Ellen Page, whose photoshoots after transitioning to \u201cElliot\u201d tend to be portraits of unhappy androgyny. Instead of showing their rainbow identities as sources of liberation and joy, these women are marketing themselves as angry and even miserable.<\/p>\n<p>And it is marketing. Interviews and photoshoots don\u2019t just happen. They are carefully arranged to promote celebrities and their projects. Thus, it is odd that these women are presenting themselves as wretched. As Eilish puts it, \u201cMy whole life, I\u2019ve never been a happy person, really. \u2026 I experience joy and laughter and I can find fun in things, but I\u2019m a depressed person. I\u2019ve suffered with a lot of depression my whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The most remarkable part of these interviews is the apparent consensus that wretchedness will resonate with fans. Misery may love company, but it rarely advertises for it in direct terms. Yet these profiles don\u2019t just strip off the glamor to present their famous subjects as authentic and relatable; they go all the way to an anti-glamor \u2014 a valorization of unhappiness and a deliberate cultivation of ugliness. Call it misery chic.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Emphasizing Ugliness and Unhappiness<\/h2>\n<p>There is no real articulation of the ideas behind this. It is more a vibe than a philosophy. Nonetheless, some themes may be teased out from this emphasis on ugliness and unhappiness. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5c049184e6b947b4d80bea7738d9caa0 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5c049184e6b947b4d80bea7738d9caa0\"><\/div>\n<p>One is that beauty is unfair and exploitative. It is unevenly distributed, and those who have it are presumed to either be using it to exploit others, or being exploited for it, or likely both. Another is that there is no real hope. Previously, the narrative would have been that embracing the supposed authenticity of a rainbow identity would bring happiness; now it is presented as offering only a more authentic unhappiness.<\/p>\n<p>It is tempting to dismiss this trend as just another angsty pop culture pose, but Americans really are increasingly lonely, depressed, and despairing \u2014 devoid of purpose and disconnected from community and family. And young women \u2014 especially young liberal women \u2014 are among the most afflicted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rnc-chair-condemns-biden-abortion-policy\/\" title=\"RNC chair condemns Biden abortion policy\">mental health problems<\/a>. Eilish and the others are just amplifying this vibe.<\/p>\n<p>There are good reasons for this misery, for both ordinary young women and ostentatiously unhappy celebrities. Social media, for instance, has multiplied the viciousness of paparazzi culture for celebrities and recreated it in miniature for ordinary girls. Everyone is always under scrutiny and on display, and the only thing that might be worse than being the subject of cruelty is being ignored, which is social death instead of social torture.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, relationships between men and women are a mess, and there is no longer even a model for what they should be or any real framework for how to improve them. With ubiquitous porn also <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/18\/strangling-for-sexual-sport-is-exactly-the-kind-of-thing-we-should-kink-shame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">normalizing<\/a> sexual violence, it is no wonder that an increasing number of young women want out of being attractive to men, or even out of having to be women at all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-80c16becd2d8cc580c6831bf9787a4bb fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-80c16becd2d8cc580c6831bf9787a4bb\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Pain Is a Warning<\/h2>\n<p>These problems are endemic in our culture, afflicting both those in obscurity and those glittering with fame and fortune. However, the pain does provide an indispensable warning that we are on the wrong path. As Lutheran pastor Hans Fiene recently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HansFiene\/status\/1783842889232957620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">put<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HansFiene\/status\/1783844387505516793\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">it<\/a> on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>A lot of people who have depression don\u2019t really have mental illness. They\u2019re having the appropriate response to leading a life that\u2019s antithetical to happiness. So antithetical, in fact, that they\u2019d be mentally ill if they were happy. If you live a life of solitude, existing only to work for someone who doesn\u2019t care about you, no spouse, no children, no exercise, porn addiction, weed-cope, hostility or apathy towards your God, you need to see a doctor if you feel like you\u2019re crushing it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Unhappiness, and the misery chic that symbolizes it, is a natural result of spiritual and relational poverty, against which worldly success offers no shield. It should not surprise us when public figures suffering from despair make a public display of it. <\/p>\n<p>Of course an actress who can\u2019t make it through an interview without getting drunk and high is in a bad place. Of course a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sia-deletes-twitter-account-amid-woke-backlash-over-her-movies-autistic-character\/\" title=\"Sia Deletes Twitter Account Amid Woke Backlash Over Her Movie\u2019s Autistic Character\">pop singer<\/a> who insists on telling the reporter all about her masturbation rituals is a mess. These are signs of suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Authentic suffering may be preferable to a false glamor, but it is still bad. While suffering may have a purpose \u2014 even if it is as banal as enduring a grueling album cover photoshoot \u2014 most of the anguish of our culture is meaningless. The promises of the world have proven false. Our secular idols, from material prosperity to technological progress to sexual liberation, have been unable to make us happy or to provide meaning and consolation in our suffering.<\/p>\n<p>The cultural and spiritual wreckage around us makes clear that finding our true selves will not make us happy. Amidst this miserable culture, those of us who have reasons for hope should boldly proclaim that we don\u2019t need to discover our authentic individual selves; we need new, transformed selves that are in right relation with God and man. We don\u2019t need to find who we really are in ourselves, we need to find Jesus and who He really is.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f95c2bf59d190cc29661cd35cb3ec841 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f95c2bf59d190cc29661cd35cb3ec841\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop star Billie Eilish, claiming self-discovery, appears gloomy despite it. In a Rolling Stone feature for her album, she revealed her orientation and portrayed a tormented artist, captured in somber photos. 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