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Celeb News: Billboard: "Kim K is a pop culture rock star"
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Billboard: "Kim K is a pop culture rock star"
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The TV & Music Issue: How Kim Kardashian West Went From Reality Queen to Pop Culture Rock Star
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Sorry, haters: With mogul status in TV, apps and social media and a model marriage to rap’s brash genius Kanye (plus two adorable kids), Kim Kardashian West has banished the notion that she’s “famous for nothing."
In person, Kardashian West is friendly and focused, with a more down-to-earth vibe than you might expect. Still, her makeup-enhanced beauty gives her a slightly surreal quality, as if she somehow managed to get a Snapchat filter to function in real life. She orders a bowl of chicken soup and a kale salad, adding, “Oh, the fries here are so good. Should I do it?” (She does not.)
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Music, of course, is just one world in which Kardashian West has worked her magic. She has not only leveraged her role as history’s greatest reality show star into unparalleled influence in social media, fashion and beauty, but established herself as a Silicon Valley power player, standing to earn hundreds of millions of dollars in 2016 from her blockbuster apps Kimoji, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and the Kim Kardashian West Official App, which provides subscribers with exclusive content about, well, you know who. And she’s not just a businesswoman — she’s a mother of two with an African-American husband, biracial kids and a dazzling work-life balance, a woman who glamorously models a distinctly modern American life. She’s even taking steps into politics, endorsing Hillary Clinton and recently placing a full-page ad in The New York Times challenging denials that Turkey’s early 20th-century slaughter of Armenians was genocide (an issue of great importance to her late Armenian-American father, Robert Kardashian).
The conventional wisdom about Kardashian West is that she’s famous for doing nothing, and that her world-conquering celebrity is a symptom of the cratering of civilization as perilous as Brexit or the popularity of stuffed-crust pizza. But of course that’s not really true. If anything, Kardashian West means so much to so many people — 82.9 million Instagram followers, 48 million on Twitter, 10 million U.S. viewers of her show each week, the countless fans who have driven her apps to the top of the Apple charts — because she does so many things, and does each of them so well.
“She multitasks on a whole other level,” says Kardashian West’s mother, Kris Jenner.
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During the key moment of Kanye’s year, however, she didn’t merely offer her opinion — she masterminded the entire narrative. The story is already something of a pop-culture fable. Kanye released the song “Famous,” which includes the lines “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why? I made that bitch famous,” then tweeted that Taylor Swift had approved the lyric. Swift issued an statement condemning the song and claiming she had never been onboard. The issue simmered for weeks, until Kardashian West gathered up all her swagger, celebrity and influence and struck back, saying in an interview that she had proof that Swift approved the song. Then, timed to a KUWTK episode centered on the topic, she released, on Snapchat, video of the call, in which Kanye shared some of the lyrics with Swift — thus ending the feud with a resounding win in the court of public opinion.
How did the couple settle on Kardashian West as the messenger? She sighs theatrically and says, “Ugh, do we really have to talk about Taylor Swift?”
Just a little bit. “I’m so over it,” she says with a laugh. “If it were up to Kanye, it all would probably never have come out. He can handle it, he has no hard feelings. He doesn’t even really care. I just wanted to protect my husband. I saw him getting a lot of ****.”
You did a good job of it. “It wasn’t even about a look or anything, or to have this feud — it was like, ‘OK, here’s the truth.’ Done. Let’s all move on. I feel like I don’t want to talk about her anymore.”
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Most weekends, she says, the Kardashian kids would go to concerts and end up backstage with, say, Michael Jackson or Earth, Wind & Fire. (She even celebrated her 14th birthday at Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, when she was dating Jackson’s nephew T.J., although Michael wasn’t there.) Kardashian West listens to music all the time, especially in the bathroom when she’s prepping to go out, through iTunes — and she still makes mixed CDs for friends. “Back in the day I loved Shania Twain,” she says. “Celine Dion is my favorite, favorite, favorite. I love Ariana Grande, Sam Smith.” Her preferred non-Kanye rappers? “Chance the Rapper is pretty dope. Big Sean, Eminem.” And of course there are perks to being married to Kanye: “When I was pregnant he made a song just for the baby to listen to.” She even gets a little giddy about spending time with old idols, like when Kanye hired Andrea Bocelli as a surprise to sing at their wedding, or when she hung out with Britney Spears before introducing her at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. “She’s Britney!” says Kardashian West. “I mean, how fun.”
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When she was in grade school, Kardashian West became enthralled by the first season of MTV’s The Real World. “I was like, ‘Oh, my God, that’s what I want to do,’ ” she says. “It’s crazy that it has come full circle — the producers of my show were the ones that created The Real World.” She got some of her first genuine media exposure as a sober pal to a hard-partying crew that included Paris Hilton. “I just thank God for my rhinestone Sidekick,” she says of that era. “I would sit there checking Myspace all the time. They probably thought I was so boring.”
You get a slightly different Kardashian West when the cameras are off. She’s sharper, tougher, more formidable. She’s noted this before — that her on-camera depiction isn’t quite as smart as she is in real life. “I just don’t think it’s exciting to see me building an app,” she explains. “The most exciting stuff is just when we are at home, in our kitchen, doing absolutely nothing. So I get that. I take one for the team.”
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Jam (Turn It Up) ha impact!
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the rock and roll hall of fame is
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Her Armenian Genocide stance 
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Idk if rockstar is apt, but thanks to the dumbassees who have invested their time & money in her and her marriage to Kanye, she has become a relevant part of popculture now, unfortunately.
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Actually Kim K is a pop culture amoeba who sucks the nutrients out of other famous people, then moves on to her next unsuspecting victim. Hustle on.
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Would Billboard lie?
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Queen!!! I say this everytime someone tries to shade her. She made the best of her star power and capitalized on that! She didn't just sit on it just because! Kim stays winning
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Why? Like, what did she do exactly?
What even is her job title? Is she an actress, musician, humanitarian, athlete? What is a Kim Kardashian exactly and what has she contributed to humanity?
People are so stupid OMG it's unbelievable.
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Originally posted by Seszr
Queen!!! I say this everytime someone tries to shade her. She made the best of her star power and capitalized on that! She didn't just sit on it just because! Kim stays winning
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It was NEVER her. It's always been her parents, Her mum really worked!
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Sad what our culture has become that people as uninteresting as her get attention.
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I cant be mad, she played the game and she played it well. Get money 
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it's been what, nearly a decade? and y'all still getting upset over her?
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cant go 1 week without talking about Kim K
try it
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billboard has become so trashy over the years
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Rock star? The rest is true.
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it's been what, nearly a decade? and y'all still getting upset over her?
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its sad
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