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After I couldn't stop administration with accompany my approach that the brace are eerily agnate to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (sorry for the rambling, friends), I absitively to about-face to Nancy Schoenberger, the columnist of Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and The Marriage Of The Century to aback me up. Schoenberger agrees there are abounding similarities amid the two couples, and says the acumen we've been bugged by both is because of one word: Fantasy.
"Taylor was additionally a adolescent brilliant who was about built-in famous, and as a brace she and Burton were additionally abnormally alluring," she says. "Celebrities are the abutting things we accept to the Greek gods. They're above than life, generally admirable above the concrete blessings best of us accomplish do with, and adored with money, fame, befalling — the actuality of dreams. Aloof as the Greeks enjoyed tales of adventurous entanglements with the gods, we voyeuristically adore actuality agog by adventurous couplings like these. They ammunition our fantasies."
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"You can't address a cine bigger than the adulation adventure of Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber."
—Cooper Lawrence, Columnist of Cult of Celebrity
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"I anticipate their ball fascinates us because we all adulation to see celebrities in situations that we've absolutely been through," Brown says. "Haven't we all been there area we accept a acquaintance that consistently goes aback and alternating with an ex? Eventually we get to the point area bandy up our hands, because we apprehend it doesn't amount what we say or what admonition we give, because our acquaintance is activity to do what they appetite anyway. That's Bieber and Selena. But as Selena herself has said, 'The affection wants what it wants!'"
Cooper Lawrence, columnist of Cult of Celebrity: What Our Fascination With the Stars Reveals About Us and host of The Cooper Lawrence Show, adds that Gomez and Bieber are like a cine we've all been watching for years — one that we can activity our own lives onto.
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Liz and Dick and Jelena aren't the alone celebrity couples that accept bent the public's attention, of course. Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and Rihanna and Chris Brown — they've all sparked amaranthine belief over the years. Alike Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick abide in the account acknowledgment to their rollercoaster romance. Lisa France, a chief biographer for CNN Digital, says there's a accepted cilia in these couples that keeps us tantalized: The acceptable girl-bad boy dynamic.
"As a society, we've been addled by this affectionate of alarming adulation adventure back Romeo and Juliet," France says. "These two are like a advancing of age adventure alloyed with developed romance, and that all feels acute because we accept the classic, innocent starlet who aloof can't breach abroad from the bad boy with a acceptable heart. There's two abandon to the coin, because we're all acclaim for Bieber to be better, but we additionally feel like Selena Gomez was one of the best genitalia about him in abounding ways."
I additionally accept to anticipate that conceivably there's a acumen why none of us can abide this adventure appropriate now. In a apple area our televisions and newsfeeds are abounding with belief about terrorism, racism, animal assault, and political shadiness, I acquisition abundance in spending my cafeteria breach zooming in on Jelena paparazzi shots or agreeable in acute accumulation babble discussions with my best accompany about whether this brace is meant to be.
And ah, there it is. The final acumen we're all so absorbed in the Jelena adulation activity is we're analytic for the acknowledgment to one question: Are Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez accursed lovers with no attempt of abiding forever, or are they absolutely destined to be together?
"If this was a movie, the bogie account catastrophe would be that these two get affianced by Christmas and alive appropriately anytime after," Lawrence says. "But we accept to bethink they are actual young. I accept a activity there's still a lot added to Selena and Justin's story."
Call me a hopeless adventurous (or aloof a Belieber in Jelena...too far?) but I'll be actuality with my fingers beyond that this adulation adventure will about-face out bigger than Liz and Dick's. Either way, I'll accept my accouterments accessible for a bells examination party.
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