It's hard to feel the whole thing tonight isn't very contrived. The idea Grande's first thought was 'let's have a massive concert, I know who I'll call Take That' is laughable it's clearly something that would have been cooked up by management. This isn't to say she's not sincere and genuinely feeling pain about what happened, you'd at least hope so.
Please take your cynicism somewhere else. Of course she'd have help / advice as to who her fans might also enjoy having on the bill. The whole thing has been incredibly moving.
First of all this isn't a thread for people, who just have the opinions and are expressing the thoughts you want them to have. I'm genuinely not a cynic when it comes to this kind of thing, I not one who shouts down celebs like Lineker for example for having an opinion on social justice issues just because he's a well off celebrity. I'm just not sure what tonight's really trying to achieve and I'm not sure everyones motives are honourable.
Part of me feels this is a bit like when people jump on bandwagons on Facebook over celeb death they probably had no real connection but they want to feel apart of the communal mourning.
I was having a conversation with someone from Manchester who made the point that there would have been lots of people their from other parts of the UK affected too, could tonight you not feel a little bit ignored if you're from Cardiff and Leeds.
Something also didn't sit right about visuals of actors pretending to cry as part of a music video in front of an earlier Grande performance.
It also doesn't feel like it's really reflecting those that lost their lives or the victims.
It wasn't Daily Mail commenter type cynicism, it was more thinking aloud about the whole thing.
If it raises money for those affected and cheers people up, I guess it's not a bad thing, but to think there aren't managers of these artists rubbing their hands in glee thinkings it's great publicity then you are fool sir.
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