We love them, they pop in and out of lives. But do you what else they pop in and out of? Right and wrong. We love pop stars, but stars can turn into black holes, so why do we allow them to be role models with unchecked power? Here is a list of reasons why we should not want pop stars to be role models:

1. Pop stars are chosen for their looks.

I think we should all understand by now that just because someone pretty does not signify that they earned their beauty or that beauty means they are the type of people that we should want to imitate. Beauty is based on health and genetics: a person usually needs both in order to be pretty. Why do we put beauty on a pedestal? Is it because we like staring at certain humans for a long time? If people set up their role models as the people who are beautiful, that insinuates that they want to be more like that person. They cannot acquire that person’s genes or that person’s health. While being healthy is good, achieving everything possible to have a "perfect" image is not. Living an active lifestyle, making good choices, and handling a fixed genetic code will determine how pretty someone can be. Emphasizing beauty in pop stars makes people think that their self-worth should also be determined by how flawless their own photos are. Promoting something that is partially impossible is not healthy for us. We deserve to feel worthy of our own lives regardless of what we look like.

2. Pop stars do not choose lyrics based on right and wrong.

When it comes to producing music, morality is not as much of a concern as is ticket sales, song sales, and ratings. Music is about how people feel. Are people feeling vindictive? Then, they will pull a Swift and swiftly write a song about being someone’s worst nightmare. Another example would be Carrie Underwood’s "Before He Cheats" where she describes breaking the law by damaging someone else’s property. Maybe that is how she felt, but that is sending the wrong message to people if they think that songs justify breaking those laws and harming other people. Popstars may not be as concerned with promoting good moral behavior as they are in making easy money. This is not the material for a good role model.

3. Pop stars entertain, they do not educate.

There is a major difference, and pop stars are known for enticing audiences. The best teachers also have the charisma and passion to engage with their students to teach them lessons, and so to a degree, I would argue that teachers use a bit of entertainment to help students learn because it keeps them attentive and focused. Sometimes, both entertainment and education can be confused because both involve attention and focus and both can be used at the same time.

4. Image is not everything.

Popstars are known for sometimes being charitable, being relatable, and entertaining the masses. They serve a purpose by bringing people together through music and showing us what it means to be human. They preserve their image with publicists and their own actions, but that does not mean they should be our role models. They are given unchecked power, and they should not be considered as valid role models until that power gets checked routinely. They promote image. They promote being conscious of what is outside of us, but we cannot let that internally ruin us.