Kate Moss and Lady Gaga Named Top Role-Models
February 18, 2010 in Kate Moss by Versus
…Interesting choices. Let’s see the details from Mirror:
Kate Moss has been named as teenagers’ top role model in a poll.
The supermodel, who has courted controversy in the past with drug allegations, was chosen by 68 per cent of teens taking part in the www.intotheblue.co.uk poll to mark the increase in customers searching for and buying their Superstar Singer days and dance lessons.
Coleen Rooney’s footballer husband Wayne was second picked by 60 per cent, followed by Brit-winning singer Lady Gaga (53 per cent) and Celebrity Big Brother star Nicola T (50 per cent).
Tycoon Sir Richard Branson was fifth, chosen by 43 per cent of teenagers.
The poll also showed more than half of teenagers do not want a career – they just want to be famous.
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And more than a fifth plan to reach their goal by appearing on a reality TV show, the poll of 1,000 UK 16-year-olds shows.
Asked the question “What would you like to do for your career?”, some 54 per cent answered “Become a celebrity”.
Asked how they plan to become famous, 21 per cent said they will do so through reality TV, while 5 per cent said they planned to date a celebrity.
But almost seven in 10 (68 per cent) did not know how to become famous, and less than a fifth (19 per cent) said they believed they had the talent to reach their goals.
The survey questioned 1,032 16-year-olds earlier this month.
What do you guys have to say about this?
Yesssss let’s all get famous! Bla bla bla, i hope the teens only look up to these women bc they’re “exiting” and good at making headlines, and at least Kate has a long steady career behind her, and not bc they want a drugs-filled life too.
This is beyond disturbing – I’m genuinely concerned about these children, what their parents have (or haven’t) been teaching them and what lies ahead for society if people think fame is the answer. The number of people who believe they can get all they wish for without lifting a finger is increasing at an alarming rate. Who is going to support them when their hopes of fame and fortune are dashed? Unfortunately, it’ll be the tax payer (what few of us will remain). Something is very very wrong with the world!!
I agree completely. It’s frightnening and very sad. I’m honestly scared for the future. I have two little boys and I’m wondering where the world is going.
but most of them won’t be famous and will have to get normal jobs. most kids dream- doesn’t mean they come true.
Yeah I don’t think it’s a huge deal. Sure it’s their fantasy job but I’m sure they’ll still go to college and get on with their lives.
its really sad that as a society we encourage girls to look up to someone like kate moss- a person who earns a living entirely on her looks AND is known to take illegal drugs and live an uhealthy lifestyle.
I totally agree with u girls!
I have to say I am pleasantly suprised and very impressed to see Sir Richard Branson on that list.
More people of that caliber please.
I also don’t mind lady gaga on there since is talented and hard working.
what the hell are a big brother contestant and coleen rooney doing on there?
I have to wonder what kind of teenagers they asked?
I know many people (even my age-19) who idolise kate moss and love lady gaga but they are more likely to laugh at glamour models, WAGS and big brother contestants.
Maybe its where I live.
Were I live its the same…
yeah, do you think myabe they meant it as a joke and the survey people had a sense of humour failure? or they made it up just to get headlines.
LADY GAGA ROCKS!
Okay…………. kinda disturbing?
Okay as a researcher I have a major issue with the sample size! 1062 may be enough if you are making generalizations to a small city, but not to an entire country. Furthermore, I would be very interested where they obtained this sample.
Sampling issues aside, the teens they polled have some major life lessons to learn…that’s all I can really say.
Hopefully Mia is right about the sample, that they chose those teens directly, thus not being representative enough. Because if most teens think like these guys, our future is pretty much screwed. And no, don’t any of you dare tell me i forgot how i was at 16 and should give them a break. At 16 i had the wildest most daring career dreams, i loved reading – just like i do now – loved my friends – just like i do now – and so on.
I forgot to also mention that we don’t know what the survey questions looked like. Quantiative research can be manipulated to get the results that you want so you should never trust survey data unless you know how the sample was selected and how the responses were obtained.
Moss a notorious coke-head and Mrs. Gaga a living twilight zone. Very fitting for this generation of young ladeis.
Kate’s outfit is amazing! she is so effortlessly stylish. I think teenagers see her as a role model purely in terms of style and nothing more.
who would allow their children to look up to druggies let alone have one as a role model.
Oh I think there’s overreaction going on. I don’t think kids are choosing Kate because she’s done drugs in the past, or that it will encourage them to do drugs in the future. I think they’re choosing her because her name is a synonym with “supermodel.” She’s a fashion icon, and she’s everywhere. It’s been proven scientifically time and time again that people favor things they are familiar with, and she’s one of the most familiar supermodels. Just because you like her fashion and fame doesn’t mean you’ll like everything she does.
I don’t know what kind of teenager everyone else was, but for me and the people I know…we just weren’t that stupid to say, “Oh I like her, she’s fashionable, she does drugs, I’ll do drugs now too.” There’s no correlation between the two that could encourage kids to do something.
yeah that study only represents a small percentage of teenagers
anyhow what’s up w/the fur on her and Posh? ugh can’t stand that…what some animals go through for that crap
Both women are ex- cocaine addicted.
I don’t know what to say abou this, it’s just sad….
My, what ambitious youths. Don’t want a career, just want to become famous? Not sure how this was polled, but wow. Kate Moss is a great fashion icon, but she gained a lot of notoriety through tabloid scandal and her ‘heorin chic’ look.
I don’t see what’s role model-ish about Kate Moss.
Wow. Reality TV stars. I don’t think we want or need any more of those .. :\
These people seem a little delusional based on the results of these polls ..
I agree with Crittle’s statement as well.
Innaccurate… I’m 16 and I disagree with all of that… I want to be an osteotherapist….
And I can’t see many of my friends saying that either. We’re never seen any of those people as role models, if I mentioned these results I would expect a lot of shock.
And all my friends want reakky careers, not celebrity status, they want to be doctors, entrepeneurs, work with computer software, etc.
Maybe its who I know, but I’d say maybe 10% just want to be famous, definitly no more then that!
yep my friends are like that too.
Although there are a few who want to be models and aimless socialites, most of my friends want good degrees and jobs.
Good luck with your future career in osteotherapy-
I’m hoping to get into diplomacy
Agree
Im 16 as well and i live in the netherlands and here its the same. Of course there is the popularpretty clique that wants to become models or hollywoodstars but for the rest we’re “normal” loll
I’m not trying to be rude but the first thing I thought was that this sure as hell wasn’t America’s youth but not that our youth is alot better. But really the uk youth Kate Moss and Lady Gaga. Kate Moss being a “former” cokehead who still to today is seen partying most of the time then taking care of her daughter. And GaGa who is overt sexually yet genius but yet I’m assuming people want to be like her because she’s overt and most guys like that and put it on a pedestal. As much as I love Kate Moss and GaGa lets call a spade a spade…I have less of a problem with Gaga because outside of music she has her head on straight and doesn’t act a fool. But Moss come on!!! And the reality of the situation is that when you name someone or you have a role model you try and emulate everything they do for the better of for the worst. the aforementioned definitely applies to Moss who only lost a Burberry contract when the video was released of her snorting coke and when she left Rehab got alot of contracts again…..????? I’m very intrigued and confused???!?????
I’m sorry, but to me it sounds like they just surveyed a huge group of really stupid kids. I mean, no teenagers that are able to read literature and are proficient at math would be caught dead saying, “I want to be a celebrity!” Smart kids always have and always will want to go into medicine, business, law, scientific research, etc.
how dreadful.
i wonder if a survey of american teenagers would provide the same type of results?
Sadly I think it wouldn’t be that different to these results.
This is a finding that is coming up again and again. We are always hearing surveys showing that most young girls aspire to be a stripper, model, glamour model, reality tv star over the traditional careers of doctor, teacher, nurse etc.
Of course I guess we wouldn’t hear about the surveys that said girls wanted to be a doctor or teacher because that would not make interesting or shocking reading. And if all the media show us is models and celebs as opposed to great thinkers, humanatarians and philosophers then of course people are going to vote for the celebs. They don’t know anyone else exists!
Nice that their first choice was a ageing cokehead/partygirl/model who has done little to contribute to society in the past decade. Most of the choices are atrocious. The Mirror is a British publication. I’m an expat living in the UK (going on 5 years) and teen culture here is more than sickening. Britain has major social problems, including the highest teen pregnancy in Europe and an unemployment rate of about 22% (might even be higher). I’m not saying one is the direct cause of the other but they are all interrelated in some way.
I can kinda get behind Lady Gaga after watching her campaign for AIDS awareness (I was impressed by how well spoken she was), but I can guarantee that isn’t why she’s being voted as a role model.
As a British 17 year old, I feel obliged to leap in here a bit as I feel that not only is youth culture being attacked, but youth culture in the UK particularly is being portrayed as warped and egotistical.
Agreeing with what has previously been said on this comments section, I can’t help but think that the results of the survey have been either manipulated for the headlines or been compiled from a biased survey. Granted, my friends are generally intelligent and driven individuals anyway, but I find it difficult to think of anyone who thinks the way the survey seems to suggest, apart from in an ironic way. It doesn’t seem inconceivable that people my age would see the survey, guess what the study wants from them and take the piss.
Furthermore, without being seen as a snob, the Daily Mail is not seen as the type of newspaper that is entirely factually accurate, it’s been sued for libel and apologised for printing crap in the pursuit of headlines… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mirror#Controversy
Anyway, lets be honest, a great number of people want to be famous… Not necessarily the any-means-possible, fame w**re, Spiedi, kind of fame, but the feeling of being talented and appreciated, which you don’t always experience as a insecure teenager… hairbrush in mirror anyone?
I’m not condoning drug taking, but Kate Moss has redeemed herself greatly since the cocaine incident, no. Gaga is a genius full stop.
And to the Americans who are questioning whether its just the ‘slaggy’ British who are perpetuating this notion of future useless fame, I poin† you in the direction of television (which I feel is the greatest role model for my age group) British teenagers are forcefed a visional diet of The Hills and Jersey Shore so I’m sure, somehow, the ideas don’t originate here…
Wow ^^ meant to be doing english coursework at the moment, so maybe I’m just as bad…. x