I have been struggling to understand the new pop-culture celebrity worship and its monetization . I would say in previous eras of celebrity worship people would give their adoration to someone because of exceptional skill (aka talent) and at the same time they admired someone because he\she gave a perception of talent, all celebrities probably used a little of both but exceptional skill seems easier to monetize than perception.
As an example James Dean had a really short career but really wasn't a great actor ( others seems to think the same thing) but the population brought into the idea that this guy was a great actor etc. after he died and apparently the perception is valuable.
However, this new era of celebrity worship seems to frequently give adoration to folks that uses the perception of exceptional skill alone.
With all that said, there is the Kardashian family, maybe Kim's tape is an exceptional talent, or is it Ray J that showed its exceptional talent (nod to RayJ).
The money: Now maybe it is my own limited understanding of the role of money and its ability to point to the truth but I think most would agree or have heard of the term "follow the money" and there are biblical references on the true intention of a man can be identified by where he places his money.
Not a perfect science but if I were to work this money = truth idea then I should be able to find the true exceptional talent of the Kardashaian family because people would be will to pay for exceptional talent.
Where are these people getting money, I am guessing that the TV channel pays them but I cannot see them getting the kind of money they seemly have or at least it cannot be the original source.
Google told me Daddy Kardashian AKA OJ's boy, was a lawyer but probably made real money when he started Movie Tunes Inc., Movie Tunes Inc. sells, the time you spend waiting for movie previews to start, to vendors to run more commercials or play music. Apparently we spend 20 minutes on average waiting on a movie to start and that time is valuable because folks are paying for that time. Movie Tunes Inc may have been purchased by Sony Music.
Google told me Kim divorced some black dude (yeah i get the madd rapper award because I am not getting out of $300k car)
anyway Kim's ex started Underdog entertainment now Underdog Entertainment bread must be long because these dudes are involved in crazy hits.
So now my nosey self knows where mom kardashian and kim got the cash, and all this celebrity tv show stuff may just be noise, but its not cause Kim pulling in $75000 per episode.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
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they may be more of an example of it takes money to make money... without the dad being exceptionally talented in counsel and business savvy, their fame would not be there which is where there money is being generated from now.
ReplyDeleteinteresting though.... nowadays you can market your fame (solely without talent)... see flava flav, new york, jeresy shore folks, the hills, omarosa, etc... get on tv, be over the top and continue to capitalize... actually ray j is doing this... since the sex tape, his bachelor show, its funny that he is now the more famous one... folks use to say "ain't you brandy's brother"; now they may say the reverse...
This is a classic case of 15 minutes of fame "the extended version". Everyone in that family is totally obsessed with being famous, but not as much as Kim. Kim comes across as the type of person that will go through great lengths (Ray J.. PAUSE) to achieve notoriety. Consider the postgame interview Reggie Bush did and how she crashed it. When the questions were directed to Reggie that b*@ch intercepted it (no pun) with no shame. It was actually posted on this blog day after the New Orleans won the Superbowl check it out. People tune in to these Bravo/VH1 reality shows because I guess their lives don't pack in enough excitement or doesn't present challenges. Reality show is almost a half baked plan of achieving some type of fame which yields a comfortable nest egg.
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