According to the NY Times, Tila Tequila is famous for no reason other than that's the way celebrity works today. Here's a caption form the article.
Joshua Gamson, the author of “Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America” calls “a shift from top-down manufactured celebrity to a kind of lateral, hyper-democratic celebrity.”
That is if you don't consider the accelerators of Ms. Tequila's celebrity, MTV and its owner Viacom, part of the manufactured top-down celebrity industry.
A better analysis of today's media/celebrity culture might be...if you're willing to do crazy stuff on camera, someone will be there to put you on.
These days, a lot of people are famous simply because they are. Does that make any sense? They're famous for being celebrities and nothing else. Gone were the days when a star really had to have looks and talents combined. These days, it seems anyone can be a celebrity as long as they have a MySpace account or something similar. Whether this is good or bad, I have yet to observe.
Posted by: jen_chan, writer SureFireWealth.com | November 12, 2007 at 03:32 AM