When you read any sort of thing about young stars these days, there is this one thing that always keeps coming back. The ever so important image, the idea that stars create a certain persona around themselves to attract a certain portion of society to themselves. The problem I however see is that the assumption is made that everyone does it, that for every celebrity there is a well thought out plan as to how develop this image. So as to how they are seen by other people.

I don’t believe that that is the case. As far as I see it, there are three sorts of people. People who seem to care too much about their image, people who do what feels right but still think about it and there are those who just don’t care about it at all. To illustrate what I mean I’m going to use three examples. For the first group Selena Gomez, for the second Miley Cyrus and for the third Taylor Momsen. Why those three? Mainly because the media likes to report on them the most, though they generally put Taylor in the same category as Miley which I don’t agree with. Some of them even turn it into an image competition.

It shows in everything really, let’s start with the kind of interviews they do for example. Selena is rarely caught on any even remotely questionable opinion, everything she says is just safe. Which as such isn’t a bad thing but it makes her just seem a bit distant, not very emotional, no real passion about something. You always get the impression that she thinks about every word she says and there better not be anything bad. (more…)