Post by Luco El Loco on Jan 16, 2005 14:33:34 GMT
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It's hard being famous. No, really, it can suck, OK? Britney Spears will tell you, and so will other stars ... just turn on the radio.
Britney's "My Prerogative," Gwen's "What You Waiting For?," Lindsay's "Rumors" and Paris' soon-to-come cover of David Bowie's "Fame" all have one thing in common: the singer's love/hate relationship with fame. For fans, it can be hard to take this kind of bellyaching — don't these people have anything else to sing about? They've spent years clawing their way to celebrity, and they're complaining it isn't all it's cracked up to be? Lindsay Lohan sings, "I would love if you would take the cameras off of me." But be honest, Lindsay — would you really?
Lohan and her peers live in a different pop world from the one their predecessors inhabited. Back in the 1960s and '70s, most stars seemed to be having a pretty good time. Even in the '80s, there wasn't much to complain about. When Don Henley sang "Dirty Laundry" about his own dirty laundry (a drug bust in which he was found with a bag of cocaine and a naked teenage girl), he was decrying the sleaze factor in the news (although not in his life, apparently). He wasn't complaining about the simple fact that the press found him worthy of coverage. Not at all! That was part of the point of being famous.
But as the nature of fame changed, with the rise of celebrity-oriented magazines like Us Weekly and cable channels like VH1, E! and, um, MTV, total saturation coverage has taken over, and today's stars don't like it. "Leave me alone!" Michael Jackson screams. "Whatchulookinat?" Whitney Houston demands to know. Is there anything that can be done to help these victims of fabulousness? We can try.
See article on mtv for examples and their suggested solutions for Eminem, Madonna and others.
It's hard being famous. No, really, it can suck, OK? Britney Spears will tell you, and so will other stars ... just turn on the radio.
Britney's "My Prerogative," Gwen's "What You Waiting For?," Lindsay's "Rumors" and Paris' soon-to-come cover of David Bowie's "Fame" all have one thing in common: the singer's love/hate relationship with fame. For fans, it can be hard to take this kind of bellyaching — don't these people have anything else to sing about? They've spent years clawing their way to celebrity, and they're complaining it isn't all it's cracked up to be? Lindsay Lohan sings, "I would love if you would take the cameras off of me." But be honest, Lindsay — would you really?
Lohan and her peers live in a different pop world from the one their predecessors inhabited. Back in the 1960s and '70s, most stars seemed to be having a pretty good time. Even in the '80s, there wasn't much to complain about. When Don Henley sang "Dirty Laundry" about his own dirty laundry (a drug bust in which he was found with a bag of cocaine and a naked teenage girl), he was decrying the sleaze factor in the news (although not in his life, apparently). He wasn't complaining about the simple fact that the press found him worthy of coverage. Not at all! That was part of the point of being famous.
But as the nature of fame changed, with the rise of celebrity-oriented magazines like Us Weekly and cable channels like VH1, E! and, um, MTV, total saturation coverage has taken over, and today's stars don't like it. "Leave me alone!" Michael Jackson screams. "Whatchulookinat?" Whitney Houston demands to know. Is there anything that can be done to help these victims of fabulousness? We can try.
See article on mtv for examples and their suggested solutions for Eminem, Madonna and others.
