What the heck is with the vampire craze? One woman writes one story about a kind of Romeo and Juliet couple (minus being dead at the end - like normal dead dead not vampire dead) and all of a sudden there is a disturbing amount of books and tv shows about vampires.
Like really?
Come on.
I will freely admit that I read the Twilight series and minus the fact that it was badly written (grammatical wise), the story is incredibly catchy. But what is with society and vampires? Is it all of a sudden cool to be drinking blood and yearning to join the living dead? Or is it more the idea of not being able to find a living breathing boyfriend that makes girls dream of a vampire one?
Society has gone vampire crazy and it's rather pathetic that the same story can basically be told again and again, on different networks and by different authors and yet people still buy into it.
The sad thing though is that a year from now vampires will no longer be "cool" and something new will have popped up. Society seriously just seems to be a herd that blindly follows the new fad, whatever it may be.
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I don't know. Vampires have been in vogue for longer than Twilight's been around. She maybe amped it up a bit, but it was still a pretty popular deal already. The Anne Rice books were a cult hit, and her Interview with a Vampire was turned into a blockbuster with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Underworld was also popular already, as were very many cheap rip-off horror movies, including adaptations/re-interpretations of Dracula (ie Dracula 2000). I watched more of those than I can remember. Salem's Lot remains one of the best-selling of Stephen King's books, even though it's one of the oldest, and cheap vampire novels were being cranked out--including some for the teen and kiddie markets. And the good vampires and the Romeo and Juliet things had already been done numerous times. All Twilight did is consolidate all this interest into a single mass-culture series, and bring the vampire craze that was already there to the demographics that weren't part of it (like your non-goth teenage girls).
ReplyDeleteI guess I'd say what's new is that a different kind of vampire is popular now--one that is marketed toward your average teenage girl. Those people who used to like vampire stories quite a bit (myself, for instance) are now in fact less likely to buy vampire-related media because the vampires...well, they suck now. They're not vampires; they're douchebaggy/dreamboat guys that you want to eye-gouge just looking at them, who also happen to suck blood on the side. It's just that vampires have hit a new market (girls in pink), and that one is going crazy about it in ways that other markets have been already.
Stephen King theorized in Danse Macabre about why teenage boys are so fascinated by vampires. He thought it had to do with oral fixation. I wonder what he (or someone similar) would say about girls' new fascination with them.
"like really?"
ReplyDeletewho wrote that just now.
and i cried, like really cried
i'm sry i made you cry.
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