Not the job for me
I was reading an article on Yahoo! when my thoughts turned to careers. My question of the day is “can you imagine being Kanye West’s publicist?!?!?” I can’t even begin to think about the stress level that that job would entail. I don’t think you could really ever get a decent night’s sleep without worrying what your next “statement” would be. So the Taylor Swift incident was pretty crazy…saying a generalist statement about George Bush crazy too. Kanye and Lady Gaga were supposed to be touring together this fall and winter. With an announcement made less than a month ago, the tour is canceled already. And do you know what that tour was supposed to be called? Duhdudaaaaaaa! Fame Kills. Maybe for Kanye fame kills his reputation. Maybe he is just a good actor and maybe he has an amazing publicist who collaborates with him to pick just the “right” moments to spark a fury with his name in the middle.
All this being said, I had to write a vocational reflection for my senior seminar class that all Communication students are required to take where the theme centered on our upcoming job search. Although I don’t know exactly what I want to do after the graduation that is soon approaching, I have learned one major thing during my studies of public relations: I do not want to EVER be a celebrity publicist. I think it would be really hard to practice ethical communications in the Hollywood world. So many questionable things happening…
This is probably about the most cliché phrase you could use about Kanye but really how could you be so heartless?