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Discussion: What is "iconic" about Katy Perry
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You Britney stans have a warped sense of reality. Why on earth would you regard someone's BREAKDOWN as iconic, and not only that but REVEL in it  |
Let this "warped stan" educate you.
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If it seems like every time you see a newsstand, Britney is on the cover of another magazine, that's only because…she is. A celebrity tabloid with Britney Spears on the cover sells 1.28 million newsstand copies, some 33 percent more than the average. Between January 2006 and July 2007, Britney was a cover subject of People, Us Weekly, In Touch, Life & Style, OK!, or Star a total of 175 times in just 78 weeks. During that period, newsstand sales of issues with her on the cover amounted to a staggering $360 million. She's also topped the annual Yahoo Search rankings in six of the past seven years, slipping to No. 2 only in 2004, when Paris Hilton briefly stole her crown. Searches for Britney were up 60 percent in 2007, the year of her divorce, shaved head, and car wreck. "If there was no Britney, would all Web traffic stop?" asks Vera Chan, senior editor at Yahoo. "I would hesitate to give her that much power, but it's hard to argue with the facts."
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"The product for the tabloid industry is the unusual, and Britney has been delivering that consistently," said Dan Smith, dean of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
At a time when advertising spending in traditional media is declining, celebrity gossip titles such as Star, Us Weekly and In Touch Weekly are growing. That helped overall newsstand sales for magazines edge 1% higher, to $2.39 billion, in the first half of 2007.
"The increase is almost entirely attributable to the growth of the celebrity magazine," said John Harrington, who runs industry consulting agency Harrington Associates.
Any time a magazine can boost newsstand sales past its average, the revenue is booked nearly entirely as profit, Harrington said: "People prints 2.5 million copies and sells about an average of 1.5 million. If they have an issue that sells 2 million, the extra half million goes to the bottom line."
People, which takes a broader and less sensational look at the entertainment industry, dominates the sector in circulation, but that hasn't stopped such new titles as In Touch and Life & Style Weekly from elbowing in. Another newcomer, the U.S. version of Britain's OK!, has taken particular interest in Spears, putting her picture on the cover 54 times in the 103 issues since January 2006.
"An editor's dream is to have a real life soap opera unraveling in front of you, and Britney provides that every week," said Sarah Ivens, OK!'s U.S. editor. The magazine has a 10-person team in Los Angeles devoted to Spears coverage. "We're on constant Britney alert."
She wouldn't disclose the costs to the magazine, saying only that Spears has been "amazing" for OK!'s business. Publisher Tom Morrisy said Spears drives newsstand sales and helped the magazine's ad revenue more than double to $51 million in 2007. OK! expects to turn a profit in 2008, three years after breaking into the market.
US Weekly has been just as enamored of the star, putting Spears on nearly two-thirds of its covers last year, including each of the last 14. People has had Spears on the cover 10 times in the past 15 months.
And that heightened demand for Spears pictures has been a boon to photographers.
X17's Navarre said an exclusive shot of the star would sell for about $10,000 in the U.S. and generate thousands more in residuals. "She's the most expensive right now," he said. "For Angelina, for example, you divide by two or even three to get the price."
In contrast, the average celebrity shot fetches $125 to $700, according to Scott Mc Kiernan, founder of ZUMA Press photo agency. He said residual fees on exclusives can push the value of a unique Spears shot well past $100,000.
Many of those images wind up on celebrity gossip websites, like TMZ and PerezHilton. The sites make money by delivering viewers to ads on their pages, typically receiving a fee for each 1,000 hits. Navarre said Spears boosts traffic to his website, X17online.com, more than any other star.
"During the ambulance incident, traffic doubled every hour," he said, citing internal server data.
X17, which owns the infamous picture of a bald Spears taken in February, has a team of photographers tracking her at all times. "For us, she's the star No. 1," Navarre said.
Television ratings show that a major Spears incident attracts viewers to each of the main entertainment news TV shows, too.
"All of us sustained a major ratings spike" when Spears was taken to the hospital two weeks ago, said Charles Lachman, executive producer of Inside Edition. "It happens every time with her."
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"Iconic" doesn't have to mean "positive". Iconic is memorable, impactful, influential.
Britney Spears' name & image alone, generated MILLIONS of dollars for the U.S. economy around the time of her breakdown. 
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Her breakdown
Her short-lived marriage/relationship
The School Girl Outfit.
Kissing Madonna.
Driving with kids on her lap
The Snake in that performance
Glittery body suit.
Red jumpsuit.
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everything about britney is iconic.
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What isn't iconic about her
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BOMT
Toxic
Shaving her head
Kissing Madonna
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Originally posted by Desert Rain
Her breakdown
Her short-lived marriage/relationship
The School Girl Outfit.
Kissing Madonna.
Driving with kids on her lap
The Snake in that performance
Glittery body suit.
Red jumpsuit.
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Member Since: 6/25/2011
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Rihanna Iconic Things
Umbrella
Bob Hair
Red Hair
Fashion
We Found Love
Sex Icon
Chris Brown
No.1 & Singles
Every year new album
Best Selling Digital Artist
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I'm screaming
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BOMT song/video/school girl outfit
OOPS song/video/red catsuit
Slave 4 U video/dance
VMA 2000 performance/ Striptease
VMA 2001 performance/ Snake
VMA 2003 performance/ The kiss
Toxic song/video
55-hour marriage in Vegas
Relationship with Kevin
Paparazzi obsession
Shaving her head / Beating up a car with umbrella
VMA 2007 performance
It's Britney, Bitch
Womanizer video/Comeback
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...BOMT
Her 'OIDIA' performance.
Her Slave 4 U performance. (It overshadowed the OIDIA performance tho)
Kissing Madonna.
If I had to chose one i'd choose the S4U performance.
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Some of yall need to learn the difference between iconic, infamous, and downright embarrassing.
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Member Since: 5/6/2010
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Originally posted by Aleks
Toxic song/video
55-hour marriage in Vegas
Relationship with Kevin
Paparazzi obsession
Shaving her head / Beating up a car with umbrella
VMA 2007 performance
It's Britney, Bitch
Womanizer video/Comeback
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Reach.
reach for God.
No.
eh... i guess, in a way.
Reach. More imfamous than anything.
Reaching for nebulas. NOTHING to be proud of, either.
Sort of.
Nope.
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Britney Spears
.. She is an iconic lip syncer. Showed the girls in the industry a new level of for profit entertainment and artistry has never been the same. 2nd, Her meltdown is engraved in pop culture .. It's basically iconic.
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her facials on x fator are iconic
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Her iconic arm choreography. 
Oh, and shaving her head. |
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Originally posted by SupremeGoddess;138. 28529
Shaving her head.
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Oops obviously these.. how could I have left these out! Such unforgettable iconic moments!
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Some of y'all are so PRESSED on Britney, that you don't wanna see facts.
Her VMA performance in 2007 was iconic whether it was negative or not. It may be an infamous iconic moment but it surely was iconic, it was covered EVERYWHERE the next day and something we'll remember for a while. Her head shaving as well, and even the umbrella incident. As a Britney fan, I hate to admit it but some of her worst moments were iconic.
I think her music videos like Toxic, Slave and BOMT were pretty iconic. Her VMA performances from 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2007 were iconic, her Rolling Stone cover, I think the 'It's Britney Bitch' phrase, I wanna say the 'Womanizer' video could be iconic but only because it was her whole comeback or what have you. There's SO much iconic about Britney, I think she's really what cemented what is an 'iconic Pop star'.
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Originally posted by Vlad Spears
Some of y'all are so PRESSED on Britney, that you don't wanna see facts.
Her VMA performance in 2007 was iconic whether it was negative or not. It may be an infamous iconic moment but it surely was iconic, it was covered EVERYWHERE the next day and something we'll remember for a while. Her head shaving as well, and even the umbrella incident. As a Britney fan, I hate to admit it but some of her worst moments were iconic.
I think her music videos like Toxic, Slave and BOMT were pretty iconic. Her VMA performances from 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2007 were iconic, her Rolling Stone cover, I think the 'It's Britney Bitch' phrase, I wanna say the 'Womanizer' video could be iconic but only because it was her whole comeback or what have you. There's SO much iconic about Britney, I think she's really what cemented what is an 'iconic Pop star'.
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I'll word it better, her comeback/rise to fame again was iconic. The coverage on Britney from September 2008 and on during the Circus era was huge.. she was the center of the VMAs and she didn't even perform.
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The meltdown
Kissing Madonna
Short marriage (mentioned a lot by people saying it 'ruins the establishment of marriage')
"Baby... One More Time" (song)
"Oops... I Did It Again" (song)
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BOMT video & song
Christian schoolgirl look from the video
OIDIA video & song
Red jupsuit from OIDIA
Oops! I Did It Again phrase
IAS4U video
IAS4U VMA outfit + snake
Toxic video & song
Toxic diamond-studded body suit
Her tongue
VMA kiss with Madonna
55-hour marriage in Vegas
Shaving head
Beating car with umbrella
Flashing her *****
"It's Britney Bitch"
2007 VMA performance
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Originally posted by man*****
Britney Spears
.. She is an iconic lip syncer. Showed the girls in the industry a new level of for profit entertainment and artistry has never been the same. 2nd, Her meltdown is engraved in pop culture .. It's basically iconic.
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No shade but Britney's most iconic thing "Lip Synic"
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