Paris Hilton Is A Product

I came over this ad on a new perfume, that bears the name of Christina Aguilera. It made me think about something I have thought about recently (hell I've written about this before more than twice). It seems to me, that lot of rather untalented celebrities, often survive in the media, because of having become icons of the popularity culture. They carry a fashion trend, more than they deliver a piece of good acting in film, or great music, or any other artistic package. Haven't you noticed that usually those, that do deliver some good stuff and I'm not talking about taste here, I'm talking about good quality stuff. I can smell flavour in a lot of art that I personally wouldn't buy, or get myself into; good stuff I don't really dig. What I wanted to say, haven't you noticed that real talents, don't usually sponsor different type of commercial products? You got Paris Hilton, one of the icons of popularity culture, that breathes the glamour of media gloss, simply because she has money. This one is seen in ads for everything from makeup, to fast food to your grandmother's homemade cookies. Paris Hilton is a product. She is the Barbie doll I played with as a kid. Nothing more whatsoever. All the pictures and tv moments with her, are nothing but a huge money trip for someone and a attention trip for her. You see her on the cover of a fashion magazine, most likely wearing something she was put there to sell. You see her in the gossip news, holding a cellphone that she was given to show off, to the kids that look up to her. To sell, to gain fame and more fortune.

Beauty and good old expensive clothing taste is not a talent. Fashion trends and popular culture is all about money and power, not about real creativity. Paris Hilton is not a talent, at anything creative. She's there for others to sell products and make a profit off of her product alike personality.

Look at people like Tina Turner, Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin, these are just a few examples of many. Maybe you don't like them, but they were in the media world, because of a musical talent. Same goes with Dolly Parton, although you might think she's seem a bit shallow, with all her plastic surgery and such. I have heard interviews of Dolly Parton and I can't say that she charmed me exactly. But she is a real talent, she have written great music. Country music have been ridiculed in pop culture, not because it's music of little value, but because it has been a music genre, that hasnt been commercialized so much. Just like black metal and some other underrated music styles. There are obviously passionate and musically inventive people in all genres, you don't have to like them all, the style, the sound, or the people. Same goes for Celine Dion, I would never get myself an album by her, but to me it seems she's someone with a real music interest, great voice and stage presence. Besides she came off like a real person in an interview I saw with her, not some puffed up doll. Then you could criticize her, for being boring and not very sexy, which is more of a matter of taste.

I have seen tv talent shows like American Idol and from what I could see (not being in any way a pro at judging music talent), many of the contestants were far better, than those that rule on MTV. I mean immensely far better, so much better that it has to make some people feel slightly bothered. I was positively very surprised, because I thought it would just be, another silly nonsense contest show like Miss Universe or something. Lets mention people like Fantasia Barrino and Kelly Clarkson and pretty much all of the last episodes contestants. They were so much more than Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, Christina Aguilera, Madonna and many of the other very popular pop icons of today. When I say far better, I mean far better as in way above, what these others have ever done in their hit songs. As I understand it they might have dance lessons, set up flashy stage shows and all such wonder, when all comes to all; everyone can learn to dance, or paint a picture, but not everyone can do it with a natural passion, a talent. It's not something you can learn. I have seen all of these people perform on tv and I could see that Celine Dion had less show, more stage presence and passion in her expression, than Madonna have had in her rehearsed dance shows. Britney Spears from what I have heard, became known after she won, a singing contest when she was a kid. Madonna and Jessica Simpson might have great tunes, they are maybe good show throwers, but they don't have a good voice. Most of all, they survive in the media world, because people wanted to invest products in them. They are not real artists in my impression, they are celebrities, that maybe wanted to become famous, more than they wanted to express something artistic. They are fashion trend icons, that sell wonderful useless knickknacks trough others. They sponsor charity companies, often without really getting involved. They get special extra benefits, that no regular person can get. They live in a little box of their own, with their popular houses, swimming pools, mini dogs, adopted baby farms, fake friends. They are not real people.

Let me tell you what it is. Britney Spears lives in the media, for the same reason Spice Girls were there; they don't have good voices, no musical talent and they can't write songs. Some very smart people in the record industry have figured out, that young people are very easily tricked. Yes. They will buy anything that is featured enough on MTV and the mags. I used to love New Kids On The Block for this reason; not because of the music, but because the male singers were promoted, as handsome young men with love songs, for young girls to adore. I never bought a New Kids On The Block album though and I grew tired of them, as fast as I started liking them. It was not that the music were so horrid, it was because it was a package, they were not real people. You never really liked them for the music. Eventually with a bit of age you figure out, that the handsome guy is maybe just handsome, he's nothing more. It gets boring then. If you take someone like Britney Spears and train them to perform, sponsor them and make a huge fuss out of them in the media; eventually they will also sell a lot. In the end, someone like Britney Spears and the members of Pussycat Dolls will make themselves completely dependable, of having a record company provide material for them. If nobody wants to create any music, films or tv series for them, they will be forgotten about eventually, like The New Kids On The Block. They never go down in history as talented people. I figure that it's better sometimes for power loving folks, putting their money into someone like Britney Spears, than providing for a real talent. Someone good can be more independent, whereas someone who's not, will never really have many choices. Britney Spears are just a regular girl, that someone choose to use for power. Today Britney Spears is everything I thought she would become; a shallow, spoiled, drugged, troubled and sad character. Doing nothing that anyone else if put to it, couldn't have done, just as bad or good as her. Britney Spears is a product. An abused, manipulated and unloved worshipped product, like so many other celebs from Hollywood.

All of these people of very little artistic expression, have promoted things in huge ads. They have been featured, in pathetic reality shows of no purpose. They have acted in films, that is a shame to the art of acting. They have been involved in charity work, because it's a pop thing to do, it's hard to know what it means for regular people, because these celebs own at least over seven houses, plus a big set of cars for each house, in each country and town. If you do charity work in my opinion, you should do it with your character, your person, more than you do it with your goddamn money! Some of these charity celebs live very selfish sickly lives, they are often a horrid influence to young people. An advice would be to start fixing their lives, before they start imagining they can help the poor. One thing is to be poor in financial wealth, another thing is to be poor in your person. Someone like Madonna for example, was doing charity for the environmental issues, I read that she have so many homes and cars, that she pollutes more than most, so much it makes her charity work seems like a joke. These celebs buy black babies from Africa because it's cute, not because they want to help the third world. I dont believe it.

The royal people are of the same category, as some Hollywood type of of celebs. They have no real purpose, or meaning to the world affairs. They don't do anything that someone else, couldn't be put to do instead of them. Princess Diana was product. She was maybe a very lovely sweet woman, I cant say, because I didn't know her, but you can say the same thing, about the girl that works at the mall; maybe she's a very nice person, a truly special one. You can say the say the same thing about a street prostitute. Give her money enough to travel around the world, to hold Aids babies little frail hands, while posing for magazine pictures. Use her for this purpose of making her an icon of beauty, glam, modified canned kindness and something people will see as pure, in an chaotic world. The street prostitute on crack will do the job, just as good; because maybe she has a great smile, maybe she has a really naive personality, maybe she really is a good person. Diana was just another type of prostitute. She was used for a ridiculous throne system, that fits in the fairytales, not in the real world. After giving birth to the princes and kings to be, she was no longer of any use to the throne. She was not loved, she was worshipped. Behind it all, she was a real person somewhere. Maybe Diana would have been a great librarian, or a talented taxi driver, had she went on a different path in life, a path with more meaning and less abuse. I bet she never found her place. Diana's charity work was paid for by the people, she never had any real job to earn any money to use for charity. In public she never owned any real personality, to make her seem like she was ever a real person.

I think that some celebs are probably so caught up in themselves, that they feel people who criticise them, do it out of jealousy, not out of valid judgement. When you see them in documentaries and interviews, many of them seem to have such little self awareness, in their spoiled hollow behaviour. I know I judge people I don't really know rather harshly, but I make a firm difference between celebs like Madonna and Bono and Britney Spears and Kelly Clarkson. Most people would agree, there are some celebs who are real people and then there are some celebs who are just celebrities. Whatever was real about them, died or was left behind the curtains, many many celeb years ago.

We talked about the perfumes that celebrities get. What about picking out a random woman, that works at the mall and give her a perfume modeled after her person? Nothing fancy, just the average girl in every way. Glue up huge poster ads of her and the perfume. And take a street prostitute and turn her into a modern Mother Theresa. It would be a well deserved mental kick in the head, for so many immature selfimportant vain people, that thinks they run the world, with their overvalued rubbish products.