The dance industry did a collective double take when Paris Hilton announced her Foam and Diamonds residency at Amnesia Ibiza in 2013. While dance doomsayers’ prophecies proved exaggerated and the memes that emerged proved hilarious, the residency did help validate the celebrity DJ model by bringing in enough revenue to ensure her return the following year.
“If you don’t stay in your lane and you start looking around, you’ll go crazy. I use to have this crazy thing with Amy Adams, and I love Amy Adams. You see her [consistently] getting nominated, as she should, because Amy does good work. But, it’s like, ‘Well, I did good work too.’ But if you choose to stay in that place then you become miserable. It’s a pity party and nobody cares. I’m human, so I’ve done it. But I check that because it’s ego and it’s the devil."