A Three Year Old's Prince Charming

So I was at dinner with some friends sometime before break, and that day’s topic on the table was this YouTube video in which a three year old girl was getting all emotional about a singer, Justin Bieber. The girl’s name in the video was Cody, and throughout the first half of the video, she was sobbing hysterically because her feelings for the singer were so intense that she felt overwhelmed. At first I thought it was just silly and funny to watch the girl crying over Bieber, but then I was like wait a minute, why is she feeling so heart broken with the fact that he doesn’t love her back when she in fact doesn’t even know Bieber in person? It’s not like I don’t understand where she’s coming from because I once was an obsessed little girl falling and screaming over boys bands like N’sync and Backstreetboys, but she seemed like she was specifically upset because her expectations for her celebrity prince charming were not met. I’m not sure how much she actually understands that Bieber is a celebrity, not just a popular boy from her preschool. But I was under the impression that she was almost projecting herself onto one of the heroines of the fairy tales, thinking that she’s the sought after princess. As much as she understands that her hopes are unrealistic, she still holds on to the idea that she might have a chance with him. This was clear to me towards the end of the video, when someone calls the house, and the girl says in giggly voice, “Oh maybe it’s Justin Bieber!” and excitedly chases after the person with the phone. According to the person who claimed to be the girl’s mom, the girl threw the phone angrily at the mirror with disappointment when she found out that the caller wasn’t her prince charming and got a spanking as a punishment. Maybe I’m stretching it a little too much, but I do believe that fairy tales have influenced girls in a way that they are left with fantasizing about their own prince charmings and happy endings. Even as adults, doesn't a part of us want to believe that fairy tales are true although we realistically know that we have to compromise some aspects of our own fairy tale ending?