My kids were watching some MTV show called “My Super Sweet 16.” I happened to catch a few minutes of the show here and there. I saw (among other things) a kid screaming and crying at her parents because they didn’t like the color of the car they got for their birthday and birthday parties that must have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Are these 16 year old kids really as shallow and callous as they seem to be? Where do they learn this stuff?
Mummy and Daddy, where else?
The nice, reasonable kids don’t make good TV.
POS show if you ask me.
If you want to spend $100K for your little princesses birthday, please don’t air it on TV. Nobody gives a shit. All it does is bring false hope to the little kids watching. Great message you’re getting across.
Damn rich people!
I haven’t seen the regular show, but I did see one episode of Super Sweet 16: Exiled. They sent a 16-year-old girl to a village (somewhere in Central America) for a week – she was cutting plantain, helping build a canoe, no running water or electricity, etc. I don’t know what the girl was like before – she handled herself remarkably well.
Would that this were true. But I suspect they’ve done their market research and the ratings are acceptable.
I forgot this was on MTV.
True. Don’t you think most people watch this kind of show just for the snark value?
I love MSS16. Of course, it is all about snark value.
I suspect the kids ham it up plenty for the camera, though they probably are too clueless to realize people are looking at the to laugh at them, not to admire them.
What i don’t understand is why kids continue to agree to be on this show. If they watch it at all they must see that the birthday girls are ALWAYS portrayed in the worst possible light. Is their need for attention so great that they don’t care if they are made to look like vapid materialistic wastes of flesh?
I guess so.
I wonder what these kids are like as adults? Probably just the same, no doubt.
Yes.
Look all those a-holes and douchebags you know as an adult didn’t become that way overnight. MTV finds the wealthiest, most spoiled and obnoxious kids they can find and then films what is in essence a glorious celebration of them.
What is mind bottling to me is why their classmates kowtow to their nonsense and don’t kick their ass. “Ooo I REALLY hope I get invited to some stupid jackass who I barely know’s party.”
Shows like Gossip Girl, The OC and 90210 portray spoiled uber-rich kids as attractive, smooth, suave and sociopathicaly manipulative on a Machiavellian level.
The ones you see in MSS16 are gaudy, loud, shrill, childishly stupid and demanding (“I WANT IT NOWWW!!”).
One of my former roommates went to high school with one of the girls featured on the show. He said that, yes, she was as stuck up/arrogant/spoiled in real life as they had portrayed in the show.
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
Everything I know about this show I learned from David Rakoff.
Watch a few episodes of “The Real Housewives of [Orange County] [New York] [Atlanta]” and you’ll get the idea.
Charlie Brooker’s take on My super sweet sixteen.
I’ve seen - I think - just about every episode of MSSS and what really stands out about them is how lame all the parties wind up looking. They’re really elaborate and opulent, but who cares about that aside from the birthday harpy?