[HN Gopher] The realities of being a pop star
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The realities of being a pop star
Author : lovestory
Score : 46 points
Date : 2025-11-22 17:47 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| carabiner wrote:
| Fascinating. Also impressive rawness, and it doesn't even seem
| like she passed it thru Chatgpt. It's insane that my first
| inclination is to detect those telltale signs in a blog post, and
| here I found none.
| varjag wrote:
| Yeah there's a 'delve' there but it almost feels it was put in
| as a taunt.
| some_guy_nobel wrote:
| Is this an astroturf comment? Which parts did you find 'raw'?
|
| I found the piece to be utterly hollow, almost a caricature of
| the third paragraph written about criticizing intelligence.
|
| It reads exactly as I'd expect a piece to read from a PR team
| looking to humanize their client, without providing any real,
| 'raw' details. Her texting "Young Lean" and asking if she
| changed is the most 'raw' thing mentioned, and of course the
| answer was "No."
| beepbooptheory wrote:
| What do think could of been added or taken away or changed to
| make it better? What would a "good" version of this piece of
| writing be like for you? Is it a matter of voice, pacing,
| structure? You seem to imply maybe a lack of juicy details I
| guess?
| quamserena wrote:
| It clearly hasn't been passed through a PR team or ChatGPT;
| if it had been you'd expect them to fix the grammatical
| errors. It's an honest stream-of-consciousness blog post
| almost certainly written by Charli XCX herself and herself
| alone about her thoughts, and it is honest and unapologetic.
| What word more describes this than "raw"?
| plasticeagle wrote:
| I feel absolutely confident that Charlie XCX would never use
| generative AI in any form. And this sentence is lovely;
|
| "...let some random person you've just met in the bathroom try
| on the necklace around your neck that is equivalent to the
| heart of the ocean"
|
| Like you I always look for signs of AI in writing I see online,
| and it's incredibly disappointing how often it's there. There's
| no personality, no charm, nothing unique - just the same
| flawless grammar and overuse of cliche. This piece is filled
| with the quality of humanity that we once took for granted.
| This is what we are losing.
| cypherpunks01 wrote:
| > "A couple of weeks ago Yung Lean came for dinner at my house ..
| He is probably one of the wisest people I know."
|
| Two sentences I would've not predicted in close proximity to one
| another! Hah, love it. Guess he's been through a lot over the
| years.
| decasia wrote:
| I thought this was a really good piece of writing. It's rare to
| do something like this because the job discourages it by putting
| PR filters on everything you say.
|
| My uncle was a pretty big pop star in the 1960s. His group at one
| point had a big fanzine, they were household names across the
| country, over time they had stalkers and weird fans and all that,
| made movies and albums, had big parties and knew other famous
| people, pretty much all those things that the OP writes about
| (circa 50 years later, some of it has changed but not that much).
|
| He could be charismatic and surprisingly eloquent and I could
| picture him writing a piece like this, if the mood had struck.
|
| He also lost pretty much all the money through mismanagement
| (several times over), eventually moved out of LA, had a
| tumultuous family life with numerous spouses and wasn't around
| much for his kids, and after his 40s was trapped in a sad cycle
| of reunion tours because the band still needed the money. The
| tours still had some level of excitement and crowd enthusiasm,
| even pretty late in life and I guess he always loved the stage,
| the performing, all that. But in the end, I kinda felt it seemed
| like a lonely existence. Hard to form really deep connections
| when you're always traveling and often away in your head.
| andrewinardeer wrote:
| I couldn't think of anything worse than to be known world wide.
|
| You couldn't go out in public without being hounded or swamped by
| people. The parasocial relationships people form with you can put
| your life in danger.
|
| Even worse is being a politician - particularly at a global
| leader level. Surely there has been an average Joe who has
| shithoused their way into being a leader of a significant
| country. Once you do that, with politics being as toxic as it is,
| for the rest of your days you can be a marked person.
| wewewedxfgdf wrote:
| I'd hate to be a pop star.
|
| The more anonymity the better.
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