These are the moments when the world seems out of balance just enough that things might get interesting again. If it were not for Marlon Brando sending Sasheen Littlefeather to accept his Oscar in 1973, we wouldn’t have the precedent. But interrupted award speeches making news faster than brilliant award speeches, and that’s just further proof that the public is easily amused, or that there is something in the water here that makes us naturally like rebellion in most any form.
With rises to fame as sudden and as sure as Taylor Swift, rank systems are necessary to keep track of just how famous can someone be in a life. There are no good methods for quantifying fame or success, because the money never indicates more than luck or some well-considered initial investments. It could be that the best indicator would be a scale of complete unknown to Muhammad Ali. He can walk into any city or town on the planet and be instantly recognized by enough people that he can draw a crowd everywhere. Taylor Swift may not have the same capacity, and maybe never will, but at this particular moment there are few places she can go without being a superstar.
It’s an interesting and precarious position, but at the moment, things seem to be moving in her direction very nicely. It would also seem that this level of fame can bring some interesting twists, if she and her posse decide to take the challenge seriously. As it was evident on the awards show, she didn’t have to do anything but be interrupted and her numbers increased. With a little bit of attention, she and Kanye can move some spectacular mountains in their corner of reality, a corner which is increasingly interesting to the world at large.
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