By Hope Bonarcher2023-08-09T08:30:00
Source: Reuters
Writer Hope Bonarcher despairs at the "one up manship" of celebs and their outrageous behaviour.
As a Christian writing about pop culture events it’s easy to feel I’m coming out of the gate like a raging John Lithgow at an 80s barn dance party. If this reference is over your head, run, don’t walk, with a nifty little jig in your step, to watch the Footloose Movie - only please finish this article first!
It’s 2023… what’s wrong with a little excitement, some pushing of the envelope? After all, there’s nothing new under the sun. In the 21st century with temptation merely a thumb swipe away, one could get easily bored. It’s important to keep things juicy…. keep the senses ever more lubricated, not be the proverbial stick in the mud. That’s my best guess as to why a massively successful pop hit churning super goddess of the world might find it increasingly necessary to up the ante in the face of the banality of the commonplace.
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