A sharp, funny examination of fame in the digital era and what makes our hunger for it equally alluring and embarrassingfrom the podcasters behind Who? WeeklyI Want to Be Famous takes you on a Regal Cinemas rollercoaster pre-show ride through the history of celebrity, then pulls gems of insight and humor from the garbage dump of our strange present. Lindsey and Bobby are not-so-secretly my generations smartest close-readers of the contemporary pop culture paradigm.Jia Tolentino, author of Trick MirrorWhile being photographed in 1966, Warhol reportedly said, Everyone wants to be famous. (To which his photographer Nat Finkelstein responded, Yeah, for about fifteen minutes, Andy.) Warhol was right then, and hes right now. Fifteen minutes be damned, all you need is the driveor desperationand a singular spark. But if youre not careful, youll end up a Who.Who is a Who? In I Want to Be Famous, Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber, the journalists behind the pop culture podcast Who? Weekly, distill celebrity into two categoriesWhos and Themstranscending the snarky, antiquated judgment of the A-listers to D-listers. If you come across an allegedly famous face youve never seen before and are compelled to utter Who?, well, theres your answer. (Can you picture Rita Ora, Ava Max, or Hilaria Baldwin without googling them?) If the subject elicits something along the lines of, Oh, Them, there youve found the opposite (Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Tom Cruise). Its the fundamental binary of fame.And yet, as more Whos spawn, the path to Themdom narrows. Weve entered an era where accessibility to fame is within everyones grasp, though only a select few can crack the algorithm and hold our ever-diminishing attention spans. Celebrities have taken desperate measures to stay relevantfrom the makeup, supplements, and alcohol they peddle to the Notes app apologies they postas the media who cover them compete with celebrities breaking their own news on social media and as PopCrave decides who stuns next.Blending juicy pop culture history with the authors signature wit, I Want to Be Famous argues fame no longer means ubiquity and examines what the future holds for those seeking our collective attention.
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