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Paris Hilton, the nasally baby-voice of the early 2000s, looks to be almost frozen in time. Perpetually toned and blonde, with low-rise sweatpants and daddy\u2019s money, she\u2019s either a vapid representation of a society in decline or the face of a privileged and wryly self-aware youth\u2013depending on how you see her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Really, she\u2019s a blank canvas for whatever you want her to be; her vacant stare might belie a shrewd and curated image, or it could be exactly what it appears to be. A painfully beautiful waif, caught in a sort of permanent adolescence, the girl who pioneered the very concept of \u201cfamous for being famous.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hilton isn\u2019t all that talented; she had a few false starts at an acting career, and at least a dozen mediocre songs. \u201cPlatinum Blonde,\u201d her 2011 single, features heavy, sneering autotune and the line \u201cDon\u2019t you wanna be totally hot like me? A celebrity…platinum blonde!\u201d Is it self aware? Is it awful? Is it ignorant? Yes, yes, and yes. Like her famous cropped white tank top that read in thick black type \u201cSTOP BEING POOR,\u201d her music is almost comically cruel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nStill, she\u2019s always been in on the joke. She never once appeared earnest, never faltered in her shining, tacky facade, and rarely let on that she knew exactly what she was doing. A troll before the concept was fully formed in the zeitgeist, she\u2019s a satire of herself and her own privilege.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, as a 39-year-old woman, hurtling towards middle age and by extension, irrelevance, it seems that this young! fun! persona has grown less endearing. She\u2019s gone from an affected baby voice to an affected vocal fry, perhaps in an attempt to come off more \u201creal\u201d (since that\u2019s what seems to invoke sympathy these days), and has gone from sex-doll style, thick pink lipstick, and eyeshadow, to a bare, no-makeup-makeup look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To clarify, pointing out the affectation of her new persona is not an insult to her\u2013the opposite, actually. It\u2019s a compliment to her intelligence: she knows what\u2019s hot and what\u2019s not, and right now the polished bombshell girly-girl is so <\/em>not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The intentionality behind her choices also does not make her any less genuine. Yes, there is a certain artificiality to almost everything she does, but, as exemplified in the new documentary, This is Paris<\/em> (available for free on YouTube), she is, more than anything, a traumatized human being, who just so happens to be beautiful and wealthy and \u201clucky,\u201d by pretty much any standard. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paris Hilton, the nasally baby-voice of the early 2000s, looks to be almost frozen in time. Perpetually toned and blonde, with low-rise sweatpants and daddy\u2019s money, she\u2019s either a vapid representation of a society in decline or the face of a privileged and wryly self-aware youth\u2013depending on how you see her. Really, she\u2019s a blank canvas for whatever you want her to be; her vacant stare might belie a shrewd and curated image, or it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,318],"tags":[],"coauthors":[337],"class_list":["post-5048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5049,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions\/5049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5048"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}