Hi! So if you don’t feel like answering, that’s ok, but I’m intrigued about what you think of the whole thing with Shawn and Hailey? I’ve seen people arguing about whether they’re together or not and I figured I’d ask you, since you always seem to have a clear opinion. Thank you!
hey bud thanks for asking. i have a lot of pent up frustration directed at not even the situation but the way shawnblr has handled the situation itself. like i’m tired of keeping up with it because everyone’s so set in degrading everyone involved in the situation.
do i think hb/sm is promo right now? yes i do.
may hb/sm have been an item in the past? maybe. but like a lot of other people, i think Toronto was a turning point because 1) i really dont see shawn inviting a woman he’s known for like two months up to his hometown for the holidays that he spends with his family (but that’s an assumption on my part!) 2) where did the paparazzi come from? where?? shawn only gets papped outside of like LA/NYC events and he has a solid x3 the instagram followers than hb does so?? if he has more followers wouldnt he naturally be more likely to get photographed in public? ok so then it’s fairly safe to assume the paparazzi ordeal was artifically inflated coverage correlated to hb’s presence. i really really don’t think the paparazzi would’ve caught him on camera if he were alone or even with any other woman. fans with their cell phone cameras yes maybe but not professionals with zoom lenses from multiple angles. also how fucking staged can pap shots get? the amount of hugging they did was..... not really natural-looking especially with her eye contact to the cameras. 3) shawn’s team notoriously mass unfollowed her soon after that ordeal.
do i know how much influence either party[’s management] had on this promo? not definitively. i like to give shawn the benefit of the doubt that maybe he was leading with his dick into whatever he and hb were and it was actually spontaneous on his part at first. but i personally believe he’s probably naive about hollywood. the way i see it, hb is nothing but a socialite and secondarily a model. her JOB is to look presentable and stay relevant with hollywood’s young elite. and tactics for staying relevant include but are not limited to being associated with more famous ‘partners’ to climb up the scale of relevance in the public (tabloid) eye. and stating this is not slut shaming, it is the life and career she has been born into and chosen herself.OR let’s say shawn’s not naive about hollywood, and maybe he was in this for the promo for his own benefit as well. maybe he chose to do this because he’s accepted that sometimes you have to manipulate others to climb up the relevance scale. BUT based on what we know about shawn i do not believe he went to the gala with her out of sheer self-motivation to do so. why would he? he’s been fine appearing either alone or with family at plenty of other events. he doesn’t need her at all in my opinion, she does nothing positive for his career, and it’d be fairly low for him to have to stoop to associating with a socialite to get coverage for his album: he’s an artist selling his music and his charm and she’s a businesswoman selling her beauty and the illusion of perfection as her products. and if we’re already talking about the dirty underbelly of PR, i do believe this is different than the camila-centered promo because that was plausibly natural because that was artist+artist whereas this mess is artist+business in my view.
so what now? i don’t want to be a tumblr celebrity conspiracy theorist. i explained what i think and why. he might have been coerced or pressured into the hb/sm promo but i would not accuse anyone in his management of making it happen because i don’t know all the information. several months ago a now deleted shawn blog was bouncing conspiracies about shawn’s team’s incompetence and i think that made a lot of people weary about shawn’s team but i’d like to urge all of you to assume the best of shawn and his team and don’t forget there’s a reason behind every action they take or don’t take. they’re individuals and they bear the consequences of their choices.
Let’s be conscious to not downplay shawn’s individual right to choice. ultimately nothing will change until he takes steps to change it, and even then, we probably won’t know the full extent of the truth as fans.
