Is this the worst cover story ever, or is it a joke?
According to the article, fame is like Aztec human sacrifice. To quote our favorite review of one of the later Star Wars, “Break me a fucking give.”
VICE has called Esquire’s interview with Megan Fox The Worst Thing Ever Written. Yup, it’s drivel. But is it sincere drivel, or is it meant to be a joke? Come on, Aztecs, leprechauns, Bigfoot…
Deep in her house, Megan Fox and I are discussing human sacrifice. I tell her about an Aztec ritual practiced five hundred years ago in ancient Mexico during the feast of Toxcatl, when the Aztecs picked a perfect youth to live among them as a god. He was a paragon, beautiful and fit and healthy, with ideal proportions.
Fox has been telling me about the toll that celebrity has taken on her, how the only way to keep from bending to the outside is to bend within. She’s sitting on a sectional sofa in workout clothes and a sweatshirt that hide her body, her knees folded beneath her.
The sacrifice’s year was filled with constant delight, I tell her. He danced through the streets adorned in luxurious clothes given to him by the master, decked in flowers and incense, playing magical flutes that brought prosperity to the whole world. He had eight servants and four virgins to attend to his every need, and could wander wherever he pleased. But at the end of the year, when the feast of Toxcatl came around again, the perfect youth had to smash his flutes and climb the stairs of the great temple, where the priests would cut out his heart and offer it, still beating, to the sun.
Megan Fox is not an ancient Aztec. She’s a screen saver on a teenage boy’s laptop, a middle-aged lawyer’s shower fantasy, a sexual prop used to sell movies and jeans.
“It’s so similar. It totally is,” she says quietly…
Megan Fox will not go willingly to have her heart cut out.
This breathless bad prose is grammatically correct, unlike many magazine articles we have read.
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January 18th, 2013 at 08:19
I read the article via your link. It is genuinely awful. Thought you might enjoy the lambasting it gets here:
http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/is-this-the-best-worst-celebrity-interview-ever-20130117-2cvme.html
January 18th, 2013 at 10:34
Right. The interview is indeed grammatically correct which almost succeeded in hiding the fact that it is badly written. The Vice article was really hilarious though…
January 18th, 2013 at 20:04
mabuting malaman na si Megan Fox pala ay malalim na tao, sino ba makakapagsabi na nagbabasa pala sya ng book of revelations at nagbibigay ng kahulugan sa mga simbolo nito. ako ay nagulat dahil ang nalalaman ko lang noon sa kanya ay inaakusahan sya na ang kanyang kagandahan ay produkto lamang ng siyensa, ang masaklap pa nito inakusahan din sya na dati daw syang lalaki. napakalalim pala nyang magisip. A+
January 19th, 2013 at 12:50
Back when I was still reading FHM, they used to have these ‘intellectually-inclined’ cover stories which I used to think was interesting and show-offy, but I don’t remember anything as wildly trashy as this. FHM needs to level up.
January 20th, 2013 at 21:08
It reads like a fanfic. Megan is his Mary Sue protagonist.