Essay Instructions: The essay is about the song paparazzi by Lady Gaga.
I originally submitted to my instructor the file that I will be uploading. He replied back to me saying: You made a small, but important mistake. Your essay needs to be over the song.What does the song says? What is the meaning of the song? What do you get from the song? etc... but instead you have written about Paparazzi. I would like fix my paper using if its possible some of the information that I already have. In addition, the introduction paragraph and the conclusion needs to have 5 sentences each.
Here is my essay:
Lady Gaga's song "Paparazzi" can be seen on the surface as a love story of a girl who is pursuing the love of a boy. The girl is very obsessed with the boy, to the point of being willing to chase him down and do whatever it takes to make the boy fall in love with her. In reality, the deep meaning of the song is about the relationship that many celebrities develop with the paparazzi for fame. This relationship involves the high price of obsession and pressure that many celebrities are willing to pay to be at the top. Celebrities with high levels of popularity can make the public obsess over them, to watch them, to follow them, to imitate them, and entice them to buy all of their products, so they can make a fortune out of this. The negative side of achieving fame and maintaining popularity is the destructive mutual codependent relationship between the celebrities and the paparazzi in the pursuit of their own self-interest.
There are many celebrities who have a love-hate relationship with the paparazzi where everything falls into a never ending cycle of wanting fame. The song says " Ready for those flashing lights'Cause you know that baby...I'll follow you until you love me paparazzi." Paparazzi play a fundamental role in the celebrities? career. Paparazzi have the power to give the celebrities all the exposure necessary to rise to the top. Celebrities know this, and many of them do whatever it takes to get all the exposure necessary for more fame and higher levels of popularity, but this exposure gives at the same time the paparazzi all the power to control the celebrities life's not only on their professional side, but also in their personal life. According to therapist Joyce Henley, the dependence behavior is known as ?relationship addiction? because people with codependency often form or maintain relationships that are one-sided, emotionally destructive and/or abusive. (Henley, 2012) When celebrities reach the level of fame they want, often they try to keep themselves away from the flashes and the exposure, and here it is when they start to hate and complain about the paparazzi who chase them because they do not allow them to have a minute of privacy. When many of them start to hide, and start to be to be away from the camera lenses their popularity in most cases goes down, and right there it is when co dependence starts to play an important role in this relationship. Celebrities start to call the paparazzi's attention again at any price. For example, by being the center of parties, scandals, dramas, gossip, by attacking others celebrities or by attacking paparazzi. This may result on either the celebrities rising their popularity by getting rewarded with lots of press coverage or on the destruction of their own life, which ultimately leads them always get trapped in the abusive lens of the paparazzi.
On the other hand, the paparazzi benefits and depends on the love-hate relationship with celebrities because they can earn good money with their pictures. In many occasions, the paparazzi put their own life and the celebrities at risk for a picture that could be price-worthy to the hungry media. For example, on January 1, 2013 a photographer who thought he spied Justin Bieber sitting in his parked white Ferrari was struck and killed by oncoming traffic as he walked across a Los Angeles street to get back to his car after snapping photos. (Brumfield, Matthews, 2013) Paparazzi know celebrities need them in the professional side to gain fame and popularity. They also know the public's obsession of knowing and following every step of their idol. The paparazzi do not hesitate to take advantage of all those factors without limitations, going sometimes to the extreme by putting their own life and the life of others in danger for a good picture. They also go to extreme by capturing embarrassing moments and incriminating pictures that can destroy the image of celebrities and their possibility to have a private life. The paparazzi can be the artists? best friend who helps them to reach the top but at the same time they can be their worst enemy, who can betray them and anxiously wait for the superstar to fall for their self-interest, money.
Fame itself can be very complicated. It creates a dangerous, selfish, and destructive relationship of mutual codependence between celebrities and paparazzi. They depend on each other for their own purpose. The celebrities for fame, attention, and popularity pay a high price of constant pressure and the loss of their privacy. The paparazzi for money and celebrities for fame, they are willing to cross all the limits and become amoral people. It is not easy to define who benefits the most, but the only thing for sure is that both get trapped in the same destructive cycle.
Works Cited
Brumfield, Ben, and KJ Matthews. "Paparazzo killed by oncoming traffic after photographing Justin Bieber's Ferrari." CNN Jan. 2013. Web. 5 Oct. 2013. .
Henley, Jorce. "What is Codependency?." N.p., 28 July 2010. Web. 5 Oct. 2013. Path:
http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/what-is-co-dependency/.
Gaga, Lady, and Rob Fusari. Paparazzi. 2007. Parsippany, NJ: Stefani Gremanotta, 2009. Print.
