The price of fame. Is it worth it? I'm just watching Brittney Spear's interview 'for the record'. From what it seems, she's an intelligent individual and from all the sources of media I have telling me that shes a) a slut b) some selfish bitch c) etc etc by all the tabloids; this docco by far has had the most substance. It shows the other side, it may be abit biased in playing her the 'woman amidst a maelstrom of media attention, unfairly targeted' but it has truth. Some of the shiet they show really makes you think, theres a scene when she just wants to go shopping, for the 30 minute car trip there her car is SURROUNDED by bikes and cars hooting at her while she just sits in the seat surrounded by huge security gaurds - and this is in her own car. If this were to happen to anyone of us we would be either throwing fists or calling police. Then as she arrives, theres alrighy from the eye can see a whole crowd up up to 50 or 60 paparazzi. And they look like absolute scavengers, there pushing each other just for a shot. When she gets out they converge as a masssiive mob and her small army of security just manages to stem the tide. However as shes about to enter the shop, a fight breaks out among paparazzi. theres cursing like no tomorrow and dudes going pyscho at each other, and Brittney is quickly hushed back into the car and sped off. The 50 or so cars and bikes speed off after her like a shadow. Now I ask you this, if every single minute of your public life had a frenzy of grown men going absolutely nuts at you, positively invading your life in every aspect they can. Would you still be famous? Hell, I'm happy being an average joe after watching that Edit: Oh, and keep this on topic. It is not a board debating brittney spears, the documentry, if aliens exist or anything like that. Simply what the title says
lol, i wouldnt want to be. i couldnt go anywhere with absolute anonymity and there'd be screwming people everywhere. urgh.
Could you develop that argument a little more please? Its great you have an opinion, but if you just come in and drop a one liner like that, people may think your just grabbing posts.
Famous? I could handle fame under several conditions; that the time was the 1800's, when people carried 6 shooters, if I had a fast horse, and if I could still see well enough to shoot like Annie Oakley. Famous? More like infamous. :lol:
I'd hate to be famous. Too much! I LOVE my privacy. But I watched Britney's documentary and I think it cleared up a lot of lies and misunderstanding many of the tabloids have started. Poor Britney, well not really because now she's made her comeback ten fold.
I'd like to secretly be famous. Like, be the guy pulling the strings in the white house, not myself being famous, but knowing that I'm making all of the decisions. And then something will expose me, I'd walk down the street being followed by reporters, and be all "no comment "
LEAVE BRITNEY ALO.... o_o err I wouldn't mind to be moderately famous.... like if I walked around a mall and maybe 2 or 3 people recognized me. Would never want to be swarmed by fans everywhere I go.
well i would like to be famous but not to an extent where i have paparrazzi hiding in the bushes trying to snap pics of me wherever i go. It would be bad especially if i wanted to do something illegal lol.... I rather be rich then famous. you get the same perks and money that a celeb would have minus the crazy people. I think i would like to be famous like buckethead... nobody knows who he is when he takes his bucket and mask off lol... but yet he is such a force in pop culture because he is breakingthe norms of society and the talent that his devil fingers possess. lol..
ahah ak47 if you wanna be famous, just take that paper bag off your head yo! (hehe that was revenge for your last insult, im not too good at them = /) whose bucket head? he sounds interesting..
google him hes on wikipedia... and has some awesome vids on youtube.. hes a guitar player who has made over 20 studio albums and appeared in many different bands.... He wears a kfc chicken bucket on his head and a white mask. Also...ill get you back ... but you don't know when its going to come... :lol: :maha:
I don't want to be famous. I did a a few promos and the recognition u get is usually undesireable. I did this promo in thrasher mag that said "some girls play with doll, but real woman sk8" It got me alot of unwarranted attention. I did a promo in highschool for teen suicide---same unwarranted attention. Only this time I seen some real crazies instead of skaters. It takes a special individual to keep up and be in the lime light, I wasn't one of them. I easily understood britney's situation. You are sheltered for so long then set free amongst the wolves. Federline knew what he was after and that she was an easy target who was ripe to make her own mistakes. She will recover if she realizes why she was so overprotected.
Being judge is the easiest part-going through life without knowing who ur friends are or if they love you for u or ur money is hardest.
There are quite a few people who manage to stay out of the paparazzi spotlight quite well and it leads me to believe that she has to want 'some' of that attention. A celebrity shouldn't go to the Ivy or Pink Taco & expect not to get stalked by photogs. I have to admit, if I was followed around that much though, I would flip too and probably carry a tazer with me, wearing a shirt that says, "I will tazer your behind if you don't leave me alone." I always wanted to be a famous comedian myself... except for the stage fright thing I think I'd do ok... As soon as I stop taking xanax to not be nervous around myself in my cubicle when I work I'll go for it.
Famous to an extent... Not front page magazine everyday of the week stuff. But maybe like a 5,6,7 or 8 batter for a decent MLB team or a tight end(not the best in the NFL but one that starts for a good team)....just fame like that. Some people will know me, not all, but some. I won't be overwhelmed or anything. (Not saying I want to be an MLB or NFL player, but if I could choose, have the fame/popularity of one of them...not all know, but some do.)
I think that I'd like to be famous, because there are parts of it that I'd treat it like a game. I mean, that does sound really shallow, but just let me explain before you throw anything at me. Now, I'm not saying that I'd wake up in the morning, look at my fan mail and say to myself, "I wonder how many 13 year old girls I can get to shave their heads just because I say that it's the 'cool thing to do' today..." That would be heartless and - though undoubtedly amusing and result in liberating for them from social norms - likely lead to severe social alienation on their parts, and angry mail from enraged mothers on my part. Which I wouldn't want to deal with. I mean, it would be fun to do things so that people would read into it. Like, mysteriously "vanish" from the public eye, and start all sorts of rumours about myself, maintaining that I'm running a money-laundering institution, or working to clone my mother, or raising yaks and living in a hut in Nepal, and then reappear and hint at the fact that I'd been in rehab, and then disprove the entire thing by letting everyone know that I'd been vacationing on a remote island somewhere in the Bahamas. It'd be horrible to have stalkers and paparazzi, but it would be fun to ellude them. To put on disguises and go out without getting recognised, and then start conversations about myself, talking trash and taking names. But then again, I'm a little odd.