You never know who you will meet on Halloween. You might see hundreds of Michael Jackson running through the entire career of the King of Pop. You might see Donald Trump walking amicably down the street with Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. President Barack Obama could be getting into a car with Elvis and Princess Diana. Like I said, you never know who you will meet on Halloween.
Dressing like celebrities is nothing new and some people try to do it every day, although not to the extreme. (We hope!) We choose the celebrity we most admire or despise the most on Halloween. We choose the attributes that we would like to have or want to mock and mock. We find the best ways to elevate ourselves to what we perceive to be the celebrity level or we find the ways that we can somehow lower them to our own level.
Like Britney Spears, for example. Beautiful adolescent sensation, with golden hair or a shaved and unbalanced head and appearance of a media circus; Which one do you choose? It is based on whether you were a fan and then lost interest, whether you were a fervent supporter, or whether you were always a staunch enemy of Britney from the start. The same kind of decisions apply to Paris Hilton and other pseudo-celebrities. And don’t think men are stuck being Jackson, Elvis or a former president, they have other options too. From Donald to William Shatner, there are also plenty of celebrities for men to choose from. She could even choose to be a pretty chunky version of Paris or Britney, you never know.
There will always be celebrities because the average person is too fascinated to look away from their lives. And there will always be people who look like celebrities because there is a lot of money to be made in the profession, for the right person. We’ll always have celebrity Halloween costumes too, because when else can you put on your black leather and spandex, long black wig, and sing Cher’s tunes?