Monday, March 10, 2008
celebrity life for an icon?
This article gives a really good flavor of what it means to be a fan who encounters the object of their adoration. It's also a very good appreciation of Dylan's biography. Dylan is an interesting case of someone who has always rejected the idea of being a "celebrity". He has an agent but primarily for booking tours and negotiating record deals. As far as I know (and I'm still searching) he has no "celebrity team", no publicist, no PR people. So can you be a celebrity if you never act like one and reject the label? What would it mean to "not act like a celebrity?" Is this an oxymoron? Isn't acting "not like a celebrity" acting like a celebrity? Comments gratefully received.
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I think that Dylan wants to be known as an "artist" and not a "celebrity" and I respect that about him. He has accomplished through talent and passion as opposed to through scandal or publicity. He has been a significant figure in music for the past five decades because people believe in his political, socially proactive songs. He doesn't need to be in tabloids and on the red carpet to achieve that. I wonder how he felt about the 2007oscar-winning biopic made about his life, "I'm Not There Yet." I'm sure he agreed to the project, but I wonder if he feels it's too much of a glamorous, celebrity spectacle?
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