Pop Polymaths (he said poly)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

katstevens suggested that I ask about pop stars who do OTHER THINGS. I think this is a fine area of study. First of all, let's find out who they are:

[Poll #1034227]

It seems to be that being a pop star makes it less likely that people will take your other things seriously (or will assume that you will be bad at them). Is this fair - and is it prejudice or precedent that causes it? Has anyone actually read Madonna's children's book? Is anyone going to see Daft Punk's robot movie in the serious expectation that it will be good?

USW!

Comments

Re: Paris

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

In the US, at least, I think people take J-Lo quite seriously on both fronts. Somehow she managed to do the "In fact I always *wanted* to become a singer, the acting thing just broke for me." story believably. And although she's become incredibly tiresome after several years on the publicity circuit (anyone remember those stories about her 4ss being insured?) her first two albums were taken pretty seriously, certainly on a completely different level than Madonna ever received.