I’ve never been famous. And by the sound of the things coming from the folks who have been, I should never want to be.
Justin Bieber’s going crazy these days, so famous he pretty much can’t see straight. Most of the girls on that same bullet train are either off the rails or cruising down them so fast they soon will be, from Miley Cyrus to Sky Ferreira.
As CNN contributor, former attorney and political comedian Dean Obeidallah observed:
Miley Cyrus is an addict. The ‘drug’ she can’t get enough of is potentially one of the most dangerous ones out there: Fame. I bet that Miley won’t even be upset with me saying this about her. Why? Because her name is in the headline of this article.
Indie singer/songwriter Sky Ferreira said, after she released an album with a picture of herself topless on the cover:
I’m not saying I’m exploiting myself, but if that’s the way people look at it, I’d rather do it myself than someone else exploit me. Because either way, what I do, I’m going to get exploited. That’s what the job is, not having privacy.
And Chloe Lattanzi, daughter of singer and actress Olivia-Newton John, lamented:
Fame totally messes you up. I don’t blame my mother for my problems, but I would never want to be famous or raise a child of my own around the cult of celebrity. It ruins lives.
So forget about living forever or folks remembering your name, it’s, apparently, more like some of those other lyrics in Irene Cara’s so-famous song from ’80s, “Baby, I’ll be tough/Too much is not enough/I’ll grab your heart ’til it breaks/ … People will see me and cry/Fame.”
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