Tuesday, February 26, 2008

STEPPIN' UP

This blog entry by Courtney Carvalho
The story: "Paris Launches Line of Boat-Sized Shoes"

The analysis:
    I will not lie I buy into all the popular media websites such as perezhilton.com and tmz.com. I find myself logging onto these websites for pure entertainment purposes when I'm bored at work or procrastinating a paper, project or even blog entry. What really caught my eye this past time I found myself on tmz.com was the main article about Paris Hilton and her new shoe line.
    The article talks about how Paris Hilton is teaming up with Antebi Footwear to create some "dainty" footwear. It added a source of enlightenment and amusement on this breaking news by poking fun of how Paris Hilton has such huge feet by depicting and analyzing a picture of her un manicured feet and her heinous toes hanging off an obviously too small pair of sandals. Usually I read the little articles and then move on to the next, but this little segment on Paris really got me thinking... How is a nobody like Paris Hilton creating her OWN shoe line?
    It boggles my mind how individuals such as Paris Hilton have acquired so much fame strictly because of their name and the association brought with it. What do we as society find so attractive about Paris Hilton? Why do we buy into her handed down fame? Paris Hilton is covered on a plethora of tabloids, magazines and even the news whether for quite absurd reasons, whether it be because of her two DUI's, her sex tapes, jail time, nights out clubbing, or disturbing pictures of her bare butt because she didn't put on undies that night, she is photographed and given the unneeded publicity. She already has some sort of perfume line out and now shoes! Does Paris Hilton really have the drive, determination, creativity, not to mention brain power to design her own shoes or is Antebi handing an empire of shoe designs to Paris just to have her name on them for marketing purposes.
    I find it very disgruntling that numerous people actually have what it takes to make a shoe line such as Paris is doing and strive all their lives to do so and most the time don't make it, yet Paris is making it big on nothing but her last name alone, HILTON. I'm still pondering why society feels as though Paris is such a big deal, and buying into this whole philosophy that if you're parents are famous than you have a free "shoe" in to fame and the benefits.

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