RANT: changing your celebrity persona

It’s understandable that a musician will forfeit their type of music to make a buck, but it’s not understandable to find what they would gain from telling everyone that they did. Is it right? It’s sort of misleading. What if we liked the other persona? Some musicians who’ve admitted to giving up their dream until now: Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, Hilary Duff, etc. Some musicians who’ve learned from this mistake and are using their paparazzi clout or a TV show to do just as they please: Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Ashlee Simpson, Nicole Ritchie, etc. (Teen People December 2005: “On In This Skin, I didn’t think “Sweetest Sin” represented who I was as an artist. It was stupid, and I loved that it completely tanked [the single didn’t even chart on the Billboard Hot 100]. I’d been told what to do and was looked at as a product for so long, and everything was put into perspective at that moment.”—Jessica Simpson)