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January 10, 2007
Celebrity is an odd isn't. A postmodern popular culture now requires an exhibitionist and Paris Hilton is making a lot of money from her television and movie roles and television, movies, modeling, and personal appearances. Media attention is a commodity.
Paris Hilton
She is everywhere. She creates fame and fortune just by being Paris Hilton (the persona is Paris the Heiress) and by turning herself into a tabloid princess. Her sex video on the internet in 2003 was her launching pad. In the tabloid world the worse Paris Hilton behaves, the more famous she becomes and the more money she makes. She uses media attention to sell product, and is a walking billboard.
Our popular culture has gone way past conspicuous consumption to a 24-7 rubbing our noses in the wealth of the super rich. Paris Hilton is not just about celebrity, fans and cameras or celebrities misbehaving, as Hilton is also intensely disliked or hated. Kay S. Hymowitz, points out in City Journal that:
...rather than being an alpha female, as theorists of celebrity would have it, Paris is America’s national cartoon heroine, a caricature who allows us to mock the undeserving and decadent rich we have scorned since the time of Tom Paine. We follow the Perils of Paris the Heiress in new episodes [on her Fox series The Simple Life] that seem to come almost weekly, snickering at her vapidity, her coarseness, her libertinism, and her outrageous assumption of entitlement
I reckon Channel 9 ought to acquire the show, since they've goone down market in a cost cutting exercise. Or has Channel 10 cornered that market? If we think in terms of Paris Hilton as a signifier in pop culture, then, as Hymowitz states, Paris Hilton:
...has become a synonym for American materialism, bad manners, greed, "like" and "whatever" Valley Girl inarticulateness, parochialism, arrogance, promiscuity, antifeminism, exposed roots and navels, entitlement, cell-phone addiction, anorexia and bulimia, predilection for gas-guzzling private transportation, pornified womanhood, exhibitionism, narcissism — you name it.
So why not tax her? Aaah, this is Republican America remember.
With her record the celeb-trash-princess is transforming herself into chic pop star
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I don't mind Paris actually, mind you I don't want to Be her or Sleep with her so I guess I am out of the Marketing Equation.
I like what she stands for though. Nothing!
The world needs Princess's Gary. Little girls need to have that dream that they will meet Their prince charming and boys need to dream that the are just that...and of course Trannies cant dress like Kylie all the time.
You must of missed Paris's death in the Wax Museum. It is one of the all time great celebrity deaths.
I sleep well at night and so should we all in the knowledge that somewhere out there someone like Paris is earning $100,000 every time she winks at a camera.
Soldier on Paris! Fight the good fight! We Love you.