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It used to be the case that it didn't really matter what they said about you, just as long as they spelled your name right (to use an old cliché). Perhaps the tide is turning.
"The old saw of no publicity is bad publicity no longer applies," warns Allan Mayer of Sitrick and Company, one of the leading Hollywood damage-control experts with a client list that includes R. Kelly and Halle Berry. "After this kind of event, the public tends to start thinking of you as a character rather than as an artist. People may be talking about Janet Jackson, but they're not talking about her singing and dancing."
Indeed not. Weary real-world souls this week saw not the media's designated moral apocalypse, but a star hoping to cash in on bad behavior. To many, this seemed like yet more irritating evidence that the pure of creative heart languish for lack of attention in today's America but you can take boorish behavior all the way to the bank.
I think that it's well established at this point that this was a pre-planned publicity stunt. Perhaps it will work out for Janet; I suppose we'll see in a few weeks when her album is released.
Posted by Casper at February 10, 2004 10:07 AM