ADAM LEVINE VS HONEY BOO BOO
In a recent interview with GQ Magazine, Adam Levine made a comment putting down Honey Boo Boo and her family. “Seriously, Honey Boo Boo is the DECAY of Western civilization” the Maroon 5 frontman and “American Horror Story” told GQ. ”Just because so many people watch the show doesn’t mean it’s good.
So many people witness atrocities and can’t take their eyes away from them, but that doesn’t mean they’re good. That show is literally The. Worst. Thing. That’s. Ever. Happened. It’s complete f***-ng ignorance and the most despicable way to treat your kids. F*** those people. You can put that in the magazine: F*** those idiots. They’re just the worst. Sorry, I’m so sensitive to that — like, I don’t know, man, it’s upsetting. Just to clarify, I said, ‘F*** THOSE PEOPLE.’”
After reading this article, we could not help but bring attention to this by backing the youngest and newest gay advocate Honey Boo Boo. ”Aint nothing wrong with being gay. Everyone is a little gay.”
Alanna (Honey Boo Boo) and the rest of her family from Thanksgiving night and all the way through Christmas Eve, were standing outside of their home from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. every night, meeting and taking pictures with fans who bring toys and food donations for those who are less fortunate. If that’s not enough, the family took donations in their fan mail to increase their pile of donations, spending $3,200 recently on buying toys to ensure kids have something under their trees. But somehow, even with all of the charity, and not to mention the love and support the family provides each other with on screen, haters come in the form of much more powerful, educated, and well-off public figures. “Haters gonna hate!”
Adam Levine called Honey Boo Boo “the DECAY of Western civilization.” We don’t see him and his entire family donating their time and money, in the thousands, toward the betterment of their community. Levine earns $6 million a season on The Voice and Honey Boo Boo earned anywhere from $50,000 to $200,000 over the course of the season on her hit show. Mama June, Honey Boo Boo’s mother turned down a larger house that TLC offered her family after the show became a hit, so that she could stay an integral part of her community.
This family totally loves one another. There is very little drama, and no question about how much mama June loves her four daughters. If you can understand Sugar Bear with his mouth full of dip, you would know he feels the exact same. While their show has been green lighted for a second season, the group still continues to live their regular lives in the tiny county of McIntyre, Georgia. June is doing everything she can to make sure that fame affecting her family is not an option.
June won’t even entertain the idea that the show will change her family. She has refused to hire a manager because she doesn’t want to book gigs that would take her away from her daughters. As for the money that they are surely raking in, it all goes in a trust for the girls, save for what they spent on a new car and four-wheeler. The family continues to live off of Sugar Bear’schalk mining paycheck. June isn’t oblivious to the fact that all this hoopla could end at any time. She says, “Reality TV don’t last more than three years. People have a good run for about three years. Some people fizzle out within a couple of weeks. We’ve had about 10 weeks and if it stays for the next three years, great.”
June recognizes that many critics think the family is embarrassing themselves–as if these people could ever be embarrassed! June says, “I don’t feel like I should be embarrassed about anything. I didn’t say I am representing Southerners. I’m not representing people in Georgia. I didn’t even say I was representing people in our county. I’m just representing our family. People will say, ‘You’re white trash.’ Whatever. You don’t even know me. But it is what it is. You’ve got critics. You’ve got people who love you and people who hate you.”
We would love to see Adam Levine stand outside of his house if only for a couple hours to accept donations with his family. To put down a family that loves each other so much and treat each other and others so well is a “disgrace to Western Civilization.” Money, fame and fortune are not what makes up a good person. It makes us wonder if Adam Levine has even watched any of the episodes or if he has formed a judgment from random images and clips floating around in the media. We would recommend for him to watch it and then form an opinion.
January 3, 2013 at 6:54 pm
The problem with this type of argument is made apparent when you reapply it. The Catholic Church has charities that help a lot of people across the world; it’s nothing, though, compared to the irreparable harm it does by teaching that AIDS is bad, but condoms are worse and the suffering that that teaching has caused in places like Africa.
So the question is what harm is Honey Boo-Boo creating? I agree with you that the zany antics of this family on TLC is not a source of harm. That they might be more extreme in their actions is probably chalked more up to them being on TV than a reflection on how insane their home-life is. The harm that I perceive though has to do with what brought Alanna into fame: The Beauty Pageant Scene.
The fact that June can’t see the harm that it causes her child and society to overly sexualize children, reduce their childhood years by forcing them to act like adults, and progressing the message that winning based on your looks nets you wealth and fame is a real shame. These are children who should be allowed to act like children, not dolled-up, “Mini Me” versions of adults as shown by the last picture. This is not the sort of message that we should be sending as a society, and I’m guessing that that’s the cause of most people’s negative reaction to the show Honey Boo Boo, and what caused Levine to make his comments.
January 3, 2013 at 8:02 pm
I, like probably many, many others, judge and quickly dismiss this odd little family. I have NEVER seen this show – only clips on “The Soup”, and know nothing about them other than what I have learned from sound bites. However, after reading about them trading ‘fame’ for gifts for the poor, I find myself very gladly getting off my high horse and taking another look. Thanks for that.