So says Paris Hilton about her career as a recording artist.
However, I thought of this post in one minute. Go round to Zoe’s new digs for all your Paris Hilton culture-jamming needs.
However, having reflected on this topic for another minute, I decided that clever as Ms Zoe’s favoured culture-jammer Banksy is, Paris is her own best culture-jammer.
She said in praise of her own debut album – “I, like, cry, when I listen to it”. This was a relief to the celebrity slash person after her initial trepidation:
“People go crazy,” the 25-year-old socialite/reality TV star/singer says in an interview in the September issue of Blender, on newsstands Tuesday. “They love it. Everyone’s like, `Who is this?’ I don’t tell. Because I don’t want someone putting their phone up and recording it and making a ring tone off of it.
“I think when people don’t know it’s me, they won’t judge it. But if they know it’s me, then they’ll be like, `Ugh.’ They won’t even dance.”
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Dear god. So do we all.
Maybe, like her biography, she didn’t know what was in it before listening to it.
I am suddenly stricken by a horrid thought: Paris Hilton is actually a performance artist.
Poor Paris.
Kind of related (vapid celebrityism): the NYT on the Annie Leibovitz/SuriTomKat photo-shoot.
Ouch, as they say.
Paris has been arrested in Hollywood for drink driving:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/paris-hilton-arrested/2006/09/07/1157222263752.html
I wonder who she blames?
Bit scrawny, in’ she?
Is this considered sexy by todaze yoof?
Feel like flippin her 10 bucks for a meal.
Quite, Lefty E.
C.L. – there are some rumours going around about Suri’s true parentage:
http://suicidegirls.com/news/celeb/18046/
When I hear the words “culture-jamming”, I reach for my Browning.
Apart from starting with squillions of dollars and a god-given, praeternatural ability to suppress the gag reaction, Paris is no different from you and me.
All the above catty comments are envy, pure envy.
Maybe she should make a doco about stingrays? Up close and personal with Paris
Really really close.
Ok, just thought better of that comment. (poor taste)
Envy is the least of it though. Its the overexposure of the cult of vacuousness. Not only her, but the paparazzi, pop culture world in general.
Reminds me of the Emperors New Clothes.
Well she shouldn’t blame me for the DUI charge, she should have read the warning on the labels. A margarita after a long day at work? Fair enough, so is getting a lift.
What I find disgraceful isn’t Hilton’s body or vast wealth—they’re her questionable problems—it’s the fact they don’t have proper breathalysers in California, or random breath testing. You can argue with the cozzers giving you ‘special treatment’ if you’re a multimillionaire (or homeless) but you can’t argue with the machine that reads 0.5.
Shame, California, shame.
I think her single is quite good. Shoot me now
I’m not a huge fan of Paris, but the song is actually really good.
Ben Folds – Rocking the Suburbs ‘some producer with computers fixes all my shitty tracks’ . He may be joking about his music, but have no doubt that these computers exist. I have heard rumours that the program that changes voices so they hit the right note everytime worked hard on that single. I have also seen the filmclip. I think they forgot to tell the male model in it to look interested.
Even more horrid thought. She ain’t the artist. She merely the creation of some mastermind or svengali somewhere, and her entire life is a perfomance artwork….
But isn’t that her sister Nicole in the picture? Paris wouldn’t overdress like that.
Mindy, Pro-Tools is the the music producer’s best friend. It makes anyone sound good.
I see LP has a topic category called “Asshattery”. Shouldn’t that be “Assmillinery”?
Pro-Tools, thanks Shaun, my music career is guaranteed now that no one will ever know that I sound like a strangled cat while attempting to sing.
You’re all so awful to Paris!
All she’s doing is living the dream of 90% of young girls everywhere.
She makes me laugh! Probably because the doesn’t have to give a rodent’s bottom about what any of us think.
“Bit scrawny, in’ she?”
Agree, but not as scrawny as most of the Melbourne spring fashion show models the other night.
And in case the feministas here are thinking thin is how we blokes like them, did you notice who was getting upset about the “real women” swimwear models? Not hetero males!