Back in 2007, I stanned for Fergie (lol) and found myself obsessively checking for her chart positions on iTunes & Billboard. Currently, I don't respect an artist more (or less) if they rank high/low on billboard. I've since observed many trash songs hitting #1 while many great songs barely cracking the top 100, so why did ranking matter so much to me when I was a teen? Although most of my friends are straight, literally ZERO people I knew cared about who was in the top ten & who flopped. They just cared about the music.
Since joining this site and meeting other gays, I've noticed that a lot of people are the same way and I'm curious as to why?
men overall is obsessed with numbers, straight love football/bastketball/whateverball points and etc
I was also going to mention this, straight men seem to be obsessed with numbers in footballs and certain achievements athletes have collected in the past. Interesting how pop stars have replaced that for gays (not all of them, but definitely a large percentage).
pop stars to gays are literally the organized sports for straights
different appeals, same basic premise; u have one (or some) specific 'teams' that u ride or die for , hate their opponents , then argue endlessly about why what ur behind is better than XYZ