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Perry, K. (2015, February 3). Katy Perry Talks the Super Bowl, Beyonce, and being a Boss. (Elle, Interviewer)
As one of the Super Bowl halftime show's stars, Katy Perry appears on the cover of Elle. She discusses how her famous associates are posed as archetypes by the media to create a gossip that appeals to a larger audience. She recalls Kanye West's notorious incident at the 2009 VMA's, that credited as an outlandish monster, and left Taylor Swift as a victim. Perry discusses the drawbacks of being a celebrity. She compares the relationship between the media and celebrities to a narrative; where celebrities are characters and the media can decide how to manipulate certain elements onto selected celebrities.
"There always have to be characters. As pop figures, we're all characters. And the media uses that. Who is the sweetheart, who is the villain? You know. There's the sweetheart. There's the villain. That's the narrative."
"It is a hundred times harder a dream than the dream that I dreamt when I was nine...You think you signed up for one thing, but you automatically sign up for a hundred others. And that is why you see people shaving their f*cking heads."
The media uses celebrities to their advantage. News reporters can take certain faults in a celebrity, that are already respective to their previous incidents, and stress it to make an appealing story. They take incidents that can be examined into analytic investigations, like Kanye West's VMA incident, and present it in a simpler unquestionable way, where audiences will blindly agree to. Audiences would rather undoubtedly agree to a painless judgement, than expose themselves to an in-depth analysis of the situation.
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