My bet is that it's some kind of a mental disease where they feel the need to do ANYTHING to get media attention.
Perhaps there's also a feeling that they just can't make it as a regular performer.
I never followed Miley C or Justin B as performers when they were young, but I had the impression that they did ok.
Setting yourself on fire just for attention seems to be the "thing" now -
Sexually charged answers on ‘Family Feud’ have viewers fuming.
I have no kids, but what can parents do. This type of stuff is now "normal".
Back when I gave up on TV
(twenty odd years ago), I used to feel peer pressure to watch what everyone else was watching & talking about.
And that was when I was in my forties. Can a teen or young adult resist that pressure?
To them, and me when I was that age, TV is the link that they all share.
You could become
Amish, but they don't have the internet or flight simulators.
BTW - I was out that way a few weeks ago. This Amish farm is the norm, so is the buggy.
And, yes. They do all the plowing with mules and horses.
