I have no idea who this is, except I’m sure it involves a lot of autone in the studio and Memorex on stage
Enjoying the fruits of your labor is a perfectly natural reaction for anyone who has spent blood, sweat, and tears on a project. However, for critics of the girl group Katseye, seeing the musicians living it up aboard a private jet left a sour taste in their mouths.
In a social media post, Katseye member Manon Bannerman shared a picture of the group having fun on the luxury aircraft. It created quite a stir among one Reddit community as members pointed out the disparity of lifestyles between the pop stars and their fans.
“This is so pathetic. Fly commercial. This just shows the true gap between fans and these girls. These girls are so privileged it’s embarrassing for fans to even defend them,” the original poster wrote.
Privileged? They’re rich. And looking them up on Twitter you get exactly the kind of sexualizing themselves you’d expect.
“The average fan worldwide can barely even afford a commercial ticket or to attend one of their shows,” one person noted.
According to a report by the International Council on Clean Transportation, private jets are one of the leading causes of air pollution. Since they often carry a limited number of passengers, their fuel usage is a primary concern.
“Private jets are a surprisingly large source of air and climate pollution,” ICCT aviation fellow Daniel Sitompul said. “A typical private jet emits as many greenhouse gases each year as 177 passenger cars or nine heavy-duty highway trucks.”
And there it is. You didn’t think I’d be writing this unless it was climate scam related, did you?
Like most girl bands, they get paid peanuts, relative to their revenues. Most of their lifestyle is a net cost that comes off the top of their revenues and intended to project the image of trendy wealth. Many bands in this position rent jets on the ground to do the photo shoots and project trendy levels of wealth.
No telling how long their band will produce a net income before they are replaced by someone just like them. In the corporate music business, the corporations make the money, not the artists.
So for “fans” to be peeved about it shows a double layer of lack of awareness.