How to make a pop star.  November 30, 2012 at 9:39 am (pop
culture)  I wrote this for another website but they ended up not
using it, so here it is, for Gynomite!   I think a lot about pop
culture a lot, and more specifically, how we consume it. There
are tons of actors/personalities/musicians out there, so why do
some of them stay “oh, what’s her face from that show” while
others are vaulted into the stratosphere of fame? What
relationship do we have with these superstars, and why can we
never get enough? Why is Nicki Minaj more famous than Ashanti?
Why Taylor Swift and not the lady that did the “Where Have All
the Cowboys Gone?” song? These are the things that fascinate me,
because often it has very little to do with the product they’re
putting out, and more with the product that is them- their
personal lives, their style, where they hang out- and sometimes
it’s little more than that. Gone are the days when you would
release a song and sit back to see what happens- now our
musicians are packages to be opene