PARIS HILTON - PARIS

Paris said:
If anyone deserves a star on the Walk of Fame I do

'nuff said for me. Unfortunately there is much more if you insist that I search for it.

"I'm always playing a character," she says. "I don't talk like this really -- like a baby. I don't act like myself in public, because I don't really want to show everyone the real me. Because I have no privacy whatsoever, the only thing I have is who I really am."

of course i had a positive prejudice towards the paris album! and i was proved right.

Good thing you're not a judge Lex!

I mean, some people are famous, some like it, some don't. Big fucking deal. Some people deserve their fame, for like pulling of some amazing feat of physical or artistic endeavour, some don't. It's NOT INTERESTING.

(It might still be more than that - but the Lex's second-hand po-mo clothes don't feel like an interesting fit on it.)

xpost Shorty so your argument boils down to "Spoiled woman thinks she should be included in notorious monument to vanity O NOES"?

no i agree and this is a big part of why the last STreets album was so hard to engage with (the other parts being all that terrible singing and weak production)

People generally want to either idolise or mock their celebrities. They don't want to empathise with them, unless they get cancer or do something else that brings them down to the level or 'mere mortals'.

I dunno, I just respect people that accept their praise and/or criticism in stride, and don't get visibly pissed off when the public (or whatever awards organization) doesn't share in their self-perceived recognition.

Someone said "I love humanity, it's just the people I can't stand!" Something like that applies to me.

Besides, there are tons of people who accept their recognition gracefully (at least while in public).

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On the other hand, there's no such thing as bad publicity, so thanks!

Can we maybe talk of the new Diddy album? Are people hating on this for the same reason?

Worked? You have got to be joking! Even though she's not to inherit that many millions - to many cousins and whatnot to share the dough - she's never worked in her life unless you count that sex tape she did with Shannen Doherty's ex and holding a cellphone to her ear. (It's entirely possible she signed a contract with some medical reseach center to see if obsessive usage of a cellphone can create brain cancer. She's got'em fooled of course as she has no brain.) But that is beside the point. So what if you worked 24 hours per day, the end result is what matters.

I like her in some weird ass way.

lol @ people still arguing over the fucking PARIS HILTON record.

*stares at thread title*

aka THE YEAR THE ALBUM CAME OUT

have you ever seen the state of the participants in celebrity come dancing/cooking/hairdressing/badger baiting, etc? I reckon the average person on the street would be hard-pressed to name even half of the participants in these programmes before they begin. they may become celebrities afterwards, but that's another story.

rather than meaning 'celebrated' or 'lauded', it now just seems to mean 'somebody that some other person, somewhere, has heard of... once'.

there have long been people like paris hilton, it's just that in the past they didn't have sex tapes, they dressed classier, and didn't always think they needed to *do* things like films and records to justify themselves.

Except Dickens had talent.

why are people so hung up on the question of her "talent" anyway? what kind of talent are they referring to? countless musicians with no discernible ability to sing (from bob dylan to britney spears via every indie act ever) or write songs (almost every popular entertainer in the history of pop music) are feted. what is it about paris which needles people so much more?

absence of proof is not proof of absence.

um re talent -- it's not just her talent that's in question, but her producers', writers', etc.

in the case of bob and britney, not that I'm a fan of either, they may not be able to sing like nusrats or buckleys or christinas, but at least they're distinctive, they have character and charisma. you'd recognise their voices in a millisecond.

however, paris's singing voice, while also not exactly technically great, is entirely bland and strangely featureless...much like paris herself. it's the vocal equivalent of special K, and I want coco pops, dammit! with chilli!

coco pops with chilli sounds vile.

paris's voice is very distinctive.