What do stars do after their flames burn-out? This occurred to me when I stumbled on Christina Aguilera on “The Voice,” a reality show purporting to mentor new vocal talent.
In her prime, Aguilera was a pop singer of modest range. Her greatest contribution to entertainment was a mesmerizing enactment of a waste management truck with a broken axle backing uphill to dump a load of overripe avocados into a mosh-pit.
By itself, this was enough to guarantee Aguilera a place in history. But she added pounds, went into rehab and soon was eclipsed by Dame Gaga, a moonbat from a distant galaxy with a penchant for tiaras shaped like intra-uterine devices.
After that it was downhill for Aguilera, but “The Voice” rescued her from descent into irrelevance.
Everyone should be so lucky, because sputtering star careers are littered with the debris of desperate efforts to stay forever in public favor.
Some shooting stars burn-out before their time, others hang around long after their sizzle fizzles. Then there are stars that re-ignite. Madonna hasn’t produced much lately, but she’s the Mother of Re-Invention and odds are the girl’s got new material.
Vincent Van Gouda,
Artist and Critic
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