Post 4574772 - (Potentially dangerous yet popular health advice)

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[quote="Kurgan"][quote="Janissy"][quote="MONKEY"]These celebrities end up becoming role models by default, and many of their fans listen to them. More popular media should focus on keeping fit, cooking healthy meals from scratch, things like that so there aren't all these silly extremes competing for dominance. (starving yourslef vs being a lazy f**k). 
With great power comes great responsibility as the say.

I have no high horse to speak from I admit, I have been overweight twice in my life and I have been very unhappy, I have changed my lifestyle since and I feel good. Just being well within the normal weight range for my height and fit enough to walk a distance without having a heart attack, that's good enough for me.[/quote]

Musicians have been icons of unhealthy living since the first Blues song was recorded almost 100 years ago. They are the precise opposite of athletes in this way. That musicians are deliberately unhealthy has become so entrenched in our culture over the decades that many writers have said this an expected self-sacrifice on their parts. They are supposed to destroy themselves for art. It predates hard drinking blues musicians of the 20's even and goes back to painters who were expected to be malnourished, unhealthy and sometimes literally suicidal.

Adele is just continuing in a VERY long tradition of artists who are expected to destroy their bodies to enhance their art. She almost explicitly says that when she compares watching her weight to degrading her vocal abilities down to a Nicole Ritchie level.

Nobody expects artists (particularly musicians) to be role models of healthy living. They are expected to be literally the opposite, even if it kills them, as it sometimes does (Amy Winehouse). The worse the health, the better the art. There are even some who worry that treating mental illness (or any illness) might destroy art. Could a mentally healthy VanGogh paint so well? Could a pshysically healthy Frida Kahlo paint so well? And could a menatlly and physcically healthy Amy Winehouse sing so well? The art-consuming public and the artists themselves suspect that the answer is no. And that's why this sometimes gets called self sacrifice. There is probably a part of Adele that worries that if she stopped smoking and lost weight, her voice would be nowehere near as good. What if that's true?[/quote]

Freddy Mercury in the mid 1980's was quite muscular and fit, yet he sang extremely well.  The same goes for Anthony Kiedis.

I think Adele is just finding excuses not to eat healthy and exercise; a lot of out-of-shape people do that.[/quote]

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