Entertainment For Lively Minds
"Celebrity Culture Gone Mad" - Example #4287
Posted by Joe R on 6 January 2009 - 12:58pm.
Leona Lewis has signed a deal to write her autobiography. I fail to see why this would be of interest to anyone. She led a fairly unremarkable life until two years ago and as soon as things started to get interesting, everything she's done has been televised. Good luck to the girl and all that but it won't be going on my Amazon wish list.
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If Katie Price can shift millions of books and remain on the Sunday Times bestseller list for more than two years with her first biography, I suspect the market for this kind thing is in spectacularly rude health. Like it or not, Leona is probably a role model for hundreds of thousands of young girls who'd like to be rich, famous pop stars, and they'll buy the book.
As has been said before
Jordan has written more books than she's read.
I'm not denying she's a role model
and I'm sure that less-deserving people have had money thrown at them to write an autobiography. My point was that her rise to fame has been televised from the beginning whereas Jordan's was more or less in the tabloids and therefore more open to misinterpretation. Anyone who likes Leona surely already knows the Leona Lewis story in enough detail already - I don't know what an autobiography could add.
(OK, no-one knows what an autobiography will add to what they already know before they read it, but I don't want to scupper my own argument too much)
I don't think the deal is for an autobiography
but the tale of how her life has changed since winning. I'll not be buying it though.
What volume is Wayne Rooney on?
Lest we forget, Rooney got a £5 million advance plus royalties for a minimum of five books to be published over a twelve-year period.
I'm sure Hunter Davies will be handsomely paid, but surely he's got the biggest stringing-out job the publishing world has ever seen.
Bet it's riveting...
Here's a precis...
Chapters 1-5
My life is soooo dull. School, homework, bed. School, homework, bed. Nobody likes me.
Chapter 6
Wow! I'm famous! Everyone loves me!
Surely the dual pupoose of this...
...hard-backed press release is to make money, while also keeping Leona Lewis in the public eye and cementing her fanbase.
Her rise to fame was serialised in weekly instalments and her popularity has as much to do with the live-action soap opera that she took part in, as it has to do with her music. The book will, no doubt, drip-feed a few new titbits of information, while reminding people why they found her story inspirational.
I won't be reading it unless it comes out as a graphic novel adapted by Grant Morrison, in which case Simon Cowell is likely to be portrayed as a sentient cockroach, while Lewis will be re-imagined as a shaven-headed, bisexual anarchist - a direction that I hope she will explore later in her career when the hits start to dry up.
It's a bit soon...
...but then again it's not like anyone will be interested a couple of years more down the line.