Strangechord

I’ll admit, I’m a sucker for well-written pop culture critique, and baby, FameTracker is where it’s at! FameTracker’s creator was profiled in a recent issue of Bitch and her writing is a scream. The site features sections like “Hey! It’s that guy!”, “Galaxy of Fame”, and “2 Stars, 1 Slot”. Here’s an offering from a recent rundown of “GQ’s Hollywood Issue”:

Page 318: Okay, one more thing. From the profile of DMX, the “next Tom Cruise”: “Spend time with DMX and soon enough the rapper mystique falls away. What you are left with is someone who seems utterly genuine — someone as vulnerable as he is occasionally vicious, who can say and do only what he feels in the moment — and you are struck by how rare that is.” Subsitute DMX with, say, “Brendan Fraser” or “Hugh Grant” or “Whoever the Fuck” and this could be any celebrity profile written in the last ten years. Mwaa, mwaa, mwaa Charlie Brown, mwaa mwaa Linus, mwaa mwaa mwaa DMX, mwaa mwaa Kate Hudson, mwaa mwaa mwaa.

Seriously, if you’d like to read a good skewering of our retarded celebrity and glossy media culture, check out FameTracker.