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October 15, 2009

Tour Tanking Perez HIlton Gets Vindictive...

Guardian (UK) | Read Full Story >

The Guardian:

Celebrity is not the same as popularity: that was the lesson Perez Hilton should have learned, but almost certainly didn’t, last week. Maybe he thought his name would be enough to make the Perez Hilton Presents US package tour of hip up-and-coming acts – including Ladyhawke and Little Boots – a hit. After all, he’s the ubiquitous gossip blogger, friend-to-the-stars and self-proclaimed “queen of all media” who has become an A-lister himself in the last few years. Nevertheless, ticket sales for his tour have been so poor that prices have had to be slashed – in some cases to nothing – for the remaining dates.

….Maura Johnston of the hugely popular Idolator blog goes further: “His blend of self-aggrandisement, barely concealed agendas, misogyny and poor grammar is quite a noxious cocktail. It ‘works’, but I suspect it works largely because he was one of the earliest online gossipmongers and definitely the first to build an outsized persona for himself. He trumpets things like click-throughs to artists he mentions on his site, but the moment the users have to make any commitment or lay out any money, any ‘influence’ he has evaporates.”

From Maura Johnston’s Blog:

FROM THE DAILY SWARM 9/22/09: WHO THE FUCK DOES PEREZ HILTON THINK HE IS? THOUGHTS ON THE TOUR AND LABEL:



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