Fame built on gossip now precedes rather than follows musical success

Evidence

Her public breakdowns in 2007—shaving her head, attacking a photographer’s SUV with an umbrella—signaled the collapse of the teenpop era. In that moment, Paris Hilton stood out as the clearest model for achieving cultural relevance. She released her own album, Paris, showing that gossip opened the path to a music career and not always the other way around. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 156

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the omnivore monoculture mechanism as the reader traces how cultural credibility got delinked from skill or genre production. — connects to: Pop stardom now rewards reflexive ironic disavowal rather than sincerity — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1200