Difficulties of Being a Pop Star
...take. The well known singer Barry Manilow with all his fame "still he rosed from his seat warily . . . or, at least, with some embarrasement . . . as though he almost expected to be pelted" (Zehme and Risko). Celebrities are always created as heroes by mass media, but at the same time media’s role in destruction of them is prominent. For pop stars fleeing or hiding from the media is almost improbable. “Overnight, the British press turned on the Spices. Music magazines ran articles predicting their demise, and they were rubbished in the tabloids - one paper even set up a “boo” line, which readers could telephone and lisen to recordings of the abuse the Girls had been subjected to on stage in Spain” (Wood 12). Moreover, mass media can do a plethora of misjudgments to pop stars. As an example, in one of Madonna’s interviews the interviewer stated: “I think when you're valued for something that you didn't have much business in acquiring . . . like your looks . . . you're more out of control. As your looks diminish with age, you feel your value is diminishing and you get afraid” (Fisher). Actually, what this interviewer had emphasized was exactly evaluating a famous singer for her looks and overlooking her popularity for excellente voice. Another difficulty that affects pop stars’ lives and deprives them from the enjoyment of their success is struggling to constantly remain on top. As we know, “In less than two years, the Spice Girls have become the most successful band since The Beatles. But, in the fickle world of pop music, fame end as quickly as it begins” (Wood 12). Observing the empty frame that is remained from their fame, affrights the other pop stars from encountering the same fate. Sometimes, pop stars don’t even enjoy making a family since they are imprisond within their business sphere. Whitney Houston, the owner of Billward, box- office charts, and the one who attracted people’s attention in her time was asked if she wants to make a family like some singers; she declared: “I could not have stopped . . . not at the height I was at. If I'd stopped at, say, the second album, what would have happened? I couldn't be like the others, because my career was larger; I had to keep going. If every time you come out with a record, you make it a best-seller in two weeks, you don't stop. You're on a roll and you've got to keep rolling” (Wilkerson, Isabel, and Essence). On account of the difficulties that pop stars cope with, they...