# Celebs Tweet their grief about Donna Summer! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 17, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-tweet-their-grief-about-donna-summer/622241 "2012-05-17T19:57:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-tweet-their-grief-about-donna-summer/622241/21 "2012-05-18T23:01:46Z")
gudn1te swt pr1nc & fl1tes uv angls s1ng thi 2 thI rst ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-tweet-their-grief-about-donna-summer/622241/22 "2012-05-19T00:30:46Z")
This is so sad! The only celebrities I’ve actually heard of in the OP are Donna Summer herself, Gloria Estefan, and Flea. And maybe Ryan Seacrest. He’s a DJ, right? Oh, sad about Ms. Summer too. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-tweet-their-grief-about-donna-summer/622241/23 "2012-05-20T02:18:07Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Are you actually mocking someone who’s sad that someone else died? No, it’s worse than that. It’s not that these people are bad but that the newspaper dared report on something she hates as much as Twitter. And thus its okay to shit on someone’s death because of this hatred. I left this alone because, with her reputation, I expected her to be all contrite to **Inner Stickler** ’s question–that she just found it funny and isn’t ripping on anyone. But no, she admits it’s about Twitter and doesn’t respond at all to the actual complaint. I’m extremely disappointed in her response, to say the least. ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-tweet-their-grief-about-donna-summer/622241/24 "2012-05-20T14:12:56Z")
There’s already a eulogy thread for Donna Summer. [Donna Summer has died. - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=652110) If you want people to reverently reflect on someone who hasn’t been relevant for twenty years, then stay there. Eve started this thread because she wanted to express an opinion that would have been out of place there. There’s room in the world for differing opinions. > [@](#): > > It’s not that these people are bad Yes they are bad. Those eulogies are as vapid as the music that Summer sang. Many of the people who posted them were in grade school when Donna Summer was prominent. They may know her hits but she had as much importance in their lives as The Back Street Boys. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-tweet-their-grief-about-donna-summer/622241/25 "2012-05-20T14:27:46Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I’m extremely disappointed in her response, to say the least. Maybe you could start up a Pit thread to register your extreme disappointment instead of bumping a thread that hurt your feelings.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-tweet-their-grief-about-donna-summer/622241/26 "2012-05-20T14:53:20Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > No, it’s worse than that. It’s not that these people are bad but that the newspaper dared report on something she hates as much as Twitter. And thus its okay to shit on someone’s death because of this hatred. > > I left this alone because, with her reputation, I expected her to be all contrite to **Inner Stickler** ’s question–that she just found it funny and isn’t ripping on anyone. But no, she admits it’s about Twitter and doesn’t respond at all to the actual complaint. > > I’m extremely disappointed in her response, to say the least. I think you’re mistaken over what the topic is. Nobody’s mocking Summer’s death. We’re mocking some of the inappropriate responses to Summer’s death. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-tweet-their-grief-about-donna-summer/622241/27 "2012-05-20T15:05:26Z")
I see a perfectly valid thread here. I also find the tragedy template tweets vapid. It’s not about mocking Donna Summer. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-tweet-their-grief-about-donna-summer/622241/28 "2012-05-20T15:24:12Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Because a tweet is on exactly the same literary level as a poem. They felt it was important to say something when they heard of her death. I think it’s a little tacky to belittle that just because it’s conveyed in a medium and register that you don’t care for. Nothing important was ever written with thumbs. Tweeting is about getting attention for the tweeter. Nothing’s wrong with that, in and of itself. But using it to sound off about one’s awareness of someone’s passing does not convey the message _“I had an emotional response to this event, and I felt it was important to share that response.”_ It conveys the message _“Inb4Kanye!”_ Speaking of whom, I wonder if he’s posted _“Yoyoyo, I’ma let y’all finish, but WHITNEY HOUSTON’s death was the most tragic loss to music!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-tweet-their-grief-about-donna-summer/622241/29 "2012-05-20T21:31:51Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > I see a perfectly valid thread here. I also find the tragedy template tweets vapid. It’s not about mocking Donna Summer. Vapid is not the same as inappropriate. Even if you had some evidence that inside these people were gloating at her death and their tweets are insincere, mocking an expression of sympathy for a recently deceased person is at the least, rude. If you want to be rude, by all means, do so but have the decency to admit that’s what you’r’e doing and not hide behind accusations of intellectual lightweightism to justify it. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Nothing important was ever written with thumbs. You have perhaps never written anything important with your thumbs, that doesn’t mean others haven’t. And anyway, twitter is not just a feature of mobile devices. Many, many tweets are written by fingers at a keyboard. > [@](#): > > Tweeting is about getting attention for the tweeter. Nothing’s wrong with that, in and of itself. But using it to sound off about one’s awareness of someone’s passing does not convey the message _“I had an emotional response to this event, and I felt it was important to share that response.”_ It conveys the message _“Inb4Kanye!”_ > l finish, but WHITNEY HOUSTON’s death was the most tragic loss to music!"\* To you perhaps. To those of us who aren’t driven by a need to feel superior, it’s a nice gesture to take the time to register the passing of someone beloved by the musical public. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-tweet-their-grief-about-donna-summer/622241/30 "2012-05-20T21:33:42Z")
I’d be happy to give you a mulligan, if you’d care to try the coding again on that post. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-tweet-their-grief-about-donna-summer/622241/31 "2012-05-20T21:48:15Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > To you perhaps. To those of us who aren’t driven by a need to feel superior, it’s a nice gesture to take the time to register the passing of someone beloved by the musical public. And you rank yourself among those who aren’t driven by a need to feel superior? ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-tweet-their-grief-about-donna-summer/622241/32 "2012-05-20T22:32:13Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Vapid is not the same as inappropriate. Even if you had some evidence that inside these people were gloating at her death and their tweets are insincere, mocking an expression of sympathy for a recently deceased person is at the least, rude. If you want to be rude, by all means, do so but have the decency to admit that’s what you’r’e doing and not hide behind accusations of intellectual lightweightism to justify it. Strawman much? Some of the above tweets are fine as far as I’m concerned. I have no idea who Ryan Seacrest is, but sharing a short anecdote of what her music meant to him is entirely appropriate. For others, my honest reaction is to wonder what the fuck they were thinking. I can’t tell from here whether they are sincere or not, but I can say they don’t come across well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-tweet-their-grief-about-donna-summer/622241.md?page=1)