The pop music world is so backwards. To start with, it's the only facet of the entertainment industry that still tolerates sexism in such an open fashion. From bigoted hip hop stars to the skankification of every pre-teen pop star, it's just all so sleazy. These girls are built up to have nothing but looks and then are cast aside the minute something starts to sag because their career has nothing else to stand on. It really bothers me.
The best musicians have almost always been ugly anyway. The most musically illogical thing the industry has done is to make musicians about their image, though it was done to help sell records. It doesn't really make sense to buy someone's album because you're attracted to them, unless you actually that you think they'll repay you in sex. You can't really tell how someone looks by the way they sound. That's why phone sex operators do their work long distance.
DwDunphy
· 10 months ago
It's bad enough when the star is fully complicit, but worse if you truly think Jessica wasn't smart enough to see her dad was kind of whoring her out, in his fashion.
JonCummings
· 10 months ago
What's my punishment for admitting that I like "A Public Affair"?
jefito
· 10 months ago
I think liking "A Public Affair" is probably punishment enough.
Eric S.
· 10 months ago
So it didn't bother Jessica when everybody thought she was stupid ("Is Chicken of the Sea, really chicken?"), but now that they think she's fat, her world is over. If she thought her career was built on talent, she's been deluding herself for years. She's managed to make a living on what should have been 15 minutes of fame. She's like Paris Hilton without the sex tape.
DwDunphy
· 10 months ago
The crux of this is that she may not have been all that bright and, at the same time, was easily manipulated by her handlers. Now, in her post-sex-symbol position, that might be becoming clearer. It is not that she is gaining weight that is the problem. It is that everything about her has been secondary to her staying some adolescent-minded figure of fantasy. That could be a hard pill to swallow, to think that maybe some of the attraction was talent, personality or naivete but, no, it was all just about the sex.
Paris Hilton, I think, knows her deal. She knows it's been about the sex and money, and she plays it. One suspects Jessica is less the player than the played. The question then being, who's to blame? Malleable Jessica or the underside of the human fascination with our temporary gods and goddesses?
Craigory
· 10 months ago
yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes. I think about stuff like this everyday...good to know someone else out there notices this stuff, and takes the time to lay it down coherently.
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The best musicians have almost always been ugly anyway. The most musically illogical thing the industry has done is to make musicians about their image, though it was done to help sell records. It doesn't really make sense to buy someone's album because you're attracted to them, unless you actually that you think they'll repay you in sex. You can't really tell how someone looks by the way they sound. That's why phone sex operators do their work long distance.
Paris Hilton, I think, knows her deal. She knows it's been about the sex and money, and she plays it. One suspects Jessica is less the player than the played. The question then being, who's to blame? Malleable Jessica or the underside of the human fascination with our temporary gods and goddesses?