From Teen Idols to...Something Else

So...  I came across a slideshow that showed a few teen idols in their before and after shots.  And by that I mean showing the difference from when they originally started to who they are now.  I'm disappointed.

I came across one that showed Christina Aguilera and I was...well, not shocked because I'd heard and seen a few things, but I was, as I said before, disappointed.  She was an amaizng singer with such raw talent, but now her talent has been changed into selling sex in music and in what she wears.  This seems to be a trend among many female stars who start out young.

Because I've seen this, it reminds me that if I ever do record anything and sell it (my fingers are crossed!), that I don't want to become that way.  I want to stick to my morals and to the real reason why I do music.  I do it because I love it!  The real reason why these girls started has been lost throughout the years, and I grieve for the young girls that they left behind.  They've lost a part of themselves that they'll never really get back because of what the world now knows them to be.

Because their' focus has shifted, so has their' image, and this is sadly a common trend among almost all stars in the entertainment industry today.  I mean, think of the most wholesome actress or singer that you can think of, within the past fifteen or twenty years, and then look them up on google images.  I will bet you that you will eventually find some scandalously trampy photo, of some kind, of them. 

I just wonder as to how they live with that, knowing that there are people that see them only in one way: a sex symbol.

I hope that we can still have some artists that stick to the real reason as to why they got into music in the first place: for the music.