Everyone wants to feel wanted and important. This is a common need for humans. From a young age, we are taught to be our absolute best and that success only comes from hard work. The ability to achieve the success and have undeniable anything is known as fame. In his book “Fame 101?” American author Jay Jessup describes fame as “a very big and very visible professional success. It is the key to the good side life’s velvet rope.”(Jessup 9) .Fame brings about unrivaled serge of one's popularity however; it can also lead to one’s downfall. It is my thesis that fame has a lot of downsides; this is called the dark side of fame.
Fame can see one’s transition from struggling to make it big to becoming the definition of
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As a system, the condition of celebrity status is convertible to a wide variety of names and conditions within contemporary culture does the power celebrity status appears in business,politics,and artistic communities and operates in a way of providing distinctions and definitions of success within those domains. Celebrity status also confers the entire person a certain discursive power within society. The celebrity is a voice above others a voice that is channel into the media system as being the generally significant” (Marshall,(Preface)page “X”,1997)This relates to topic because it reinforces the fact that people who achieve fame also achieve impact. Celebrities are seen as symbols. They are walking projections of what everyone wants to be.They are expected to be their absolute best 100 percent of the time and this puts them under a substantial amount of …show more content…
The tabloid press plays a huge role and in how we view celebrities .Media outlets set out to document the lives of those who are in the public spotlight .In a 1997 interview with Barbara Walters ,recording artist Michael Jackson candidly spoke about his relationship with the tabloid press. He would go on to give examples of how he had to literally run and hide from the paparazzi who would harass him constantly.” I go around the world hiding. I can't go to the park .I can't go to the store .I feel like I am in a prison.”Jackson stated. (Jackson 1997)The interview put a spotlight on the unfortunate cons of celebrity, thus making it relevant to the topic of the dark sides of fame. At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, pop singer Lady Gaga (best known for her eccentric fashion and performances) gave a performance of her song “Paparazzi”. The performance was based on the good and dark sides of fame and had a lavish styled mansion set up. Towards the end of the performance, blood began to gush from her chest area. The performance would end with the singer suspended above the audience “bleeding to death” while camera flashes can be seen and heard. The performance was meant to symbolize
Marshall P. David (1997). Celebrity Power; Fame in Contemporary Culture. May 16, 2010. Electronically retrieved from
All fame begins when you do something noticeable. For example, actors and actresses build upon their careers and reputations by achieving excellence in their personal goals, as well as perfecting their public performance.
In a world where billionaires and celebrities can have more influence over the public than government, the word power has become interchangeable with success. Although many of us have fantasized of our lives if we were famous, the majority of the population have given up on the notion of becoming famous, and have become more realistic towards future dreams and desires. However, what qualities drive people of fame to do things that keep their name out in the eye of the public? People desire power. Genuine power is the ability to influence.
Celebrity success is often idolized as a magic solution in which all of an individual’s problems will suddenly be erased and furthermore, the new on-brought attention will bring positive and lifting influence to the individual. Unfortunately, success is often not the solution. In To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar discusses his path to success, as well as the disappointment and turmoil associated with fame to demonstrate that success does not alleviate depression.
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The star text of a celebrity can help to decipher their image and transitions they may undergo. In order to better understand these transitions, one must know the definition of a star text. A star text is the sum of everything we affiliate with celebrities, which includes their body of work, promotion, publicity, and audience participation (Jackson, 08/09/16). One must note that “celebrity doesn 't happen because someone has extraordinary qualities – it is discursively constructed by the way in which the person is publicised and meanings about them circulate” (O 'Shaughnessy and Stadler 424). Destiny Hope Cyrus, “an American singer and actress, became a sensation in the television series
Over the last few decades celebrity and fame has changed dramatically, from Alexander the Great to Kim Kardashian. Talent and achievements no longer play a huge role when it comes to our celebrities. “Much modern celebrity seems the result of careful promotion or great good looks or something besides talent and achievement” (Epstein2) with that being said celebrity-creation has blossomed into an industry of its own. Keeping up with all the gossips from breaking up to hooking up, law suits and drama many might come to an agreement that celebrity culture is starting to be the great new art form in our new generation and that it ...
We are part of a generation that is obsessed with celebrity culture. Celebrities are distinctive. Media and consumers alike invented them to be a different race of super beings: flawless, divine and above all the real moral world. In a 1995 New York Times article “In contrast, 9 out of 10 of those polled could think of something
Marcel Duchamp, arguably the most influential and iconoclastic artist of the 20th Century, once said `Success is just a brush fire, you have to keep finding wood to feed it.' Never is this more true than with the Hollywood celebrity. The hundreds of celebrity successes, burning like brush-fires of variable intensity throughout the Hollywood Hills, are ultimately meaningless and palpably destructive to the film industry. In most cases, it just seems to be a matter of keeping up with the Jones's.
How would you feel if you were the most famous celebrity of the world? You probably reply that you would enjoy of being the one which is at the top of everyone. However, the reality is that you might not be as happy as you expected. Everything actually has two sides like medicines will relieve your pain but they also have side effects. When you have the most of everything, you might also lose more than others. For instance, you often see that the person that wins a lottery ticket usually wears a mask or have concealed his face by mosaic during any interview. You might wonder that why this person hides his identity instead of just letting others to know who the luckiest person of the world is. The only reason that explains this phenomenon is
Fame at one point was only reserved for Hollywood actors. Lines such as “Im ready for my close up” from Sunset Boulevard defined the golden age of illusion and fantasy. However with the advent of reality television, suddenly everyone can be a celebrity with a platform. Shows such as Temptation Island and Big Brother brought together a competitive personality driven show with racy storylines. The genre then evolved to shows such as “The Hills” “The Real Housewives” franchise and “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”. These shows all gave rise to the term Reality Star and in the case of Kim Kardashian, with her vast social and mainstream media popularity, also created a perfume, cosmetic and clothing empire. (Shrhak)
According to Steven Knowlton, author of Moral Reasoning for Journalists, "Celebrities of all sorts-musicians, athletes, entertainers, and others-make their living from the public and the public therefore in a sense employs them, just as it employs governors and presidents..."(54). Most journalists figure that celebrities voluntarily surrender their pr...
Movie stars. They are celebrated. They are perfect. They are larger than life. The ideas that we have formed in our minds centered on the stars that we idolize make these people seem inhuman. We know everything about them and we know nothing about them; it is this conflicting concept that leaves audiences thirsty for a drink of insight into the lifestyles of the icons that dominate movie theater screens across the nation. This fascination and desire for connection with celebrities whom we have never met stems from a concept elaborated on by Richard Dyer. He speculates about stardom in terms of appearances; those that are representations of reality, and those that are manufactured constructs. Stardom is a result of these appearances—we actually know nothing about them beyond what we see and hear from the information presented to us. The media’s construction of stars encourages us to question these appearances in terms of “really”—what is that actor really like (Dyer, 2)? This enduring query is what keeps audiences coming back for more, in an attempt to decipher which construction of a star is “real”. Is it the character he played in his most recent film? Is it the version of him that graced the latest tabloid cover? Is it a hidden self that we do not know about? Each of these varied and fluctuating presentations of stars that we are forced to analyze create different meanings and effects that frame audience’s opinions about a star and ignite cultural conversations.
Many people wish that they can be rich or famous; some of them wish they can be both. Being rich is not the same as being famous; they each have a different meaning in many aspects. The society refers to a person with money as a rich person, and to a person who is widely known as a famous person. Some people get confused between the two terms, because nowadays, most people get famous because they are rich, but that should not be the case.
One of the most important steps to becoming famous is mastering an art. It is not enough to be good at something, you need to be outstanding in whatever area that you choose. Today, there are so many people who are famous that you need to stand out from the crowd. Along the way there will be people who offer you advise. However not all the advise that you are given will be good. There are some people who are condescending and patronising. Others will tell you to give up on your dreams, but you should not listen to them. However, you also need to respect authority. Therefore, it is important to listen to those who can provide knowledge that can be trusted.