"Survival of The Decorous"

Decorum is the art of fitting in. This is what celebrities try to achieve: to persuade an audience into liking them. It may be by the way they dress, to the way they speak or act. Probably without even realizing it, and just going along with it, unintentionally, everyone falls in love with these celebrities. We are the audience to their act, where their sole purpose is do what we expect them to do, and with their choices, and persuasive decorum, we become what are called, their fans.

One perfect example of a celebrity that fits into this decorum, even though it may be cliché, is Justin Bieber. He started out as a little kid who did as he wanted and sang his love songs. But when he realized his fame and the power he had over an audience, he changed his image completely into something he thought was what the audience wanted. He worked for a ‘perfect body’, started dressing with baggy supposedly ‘cool’ clothes, got all tattooed, because I guess that what’s fashionable now a days, and on top of that, began wearing way to much ‘bling’, and doing drugs, that for some also seems trendy. Probably he did as so because he was aiming to a different more young-adult, kind of audience. Lets not forget that decorum is all about acting as expected to behave.

So when Justin Bieber changed his image completely as I said earlier he used decorum to attract a different kind of audience, and simultaneously pushing the other audience, which was mainly young girls searching for love, away. He did get a lot of haters, but also got new fans. As the text states: “Decorum can make the difference between persuading an audience and getting thrown out by it" (Pg. 48).