Iggy Azalea
I had never heard of Iggy Azalea before the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. She made some presentation with L'il Kim. This is what I know know:
From Wikipedia: "She took her stage name from the name of her childhood dog, Iggy, and the street she grew up on, Azalea Street, where her family lives to this day.". That's exactly the way people are supposed to create their porn star name.
She's from Australia, and moved to the USA at age 16. Sometime in the past few years, she took Brooklyn accent lessons, that she uses when speaking and talking.
She first attracted attention in 2011, with some self uploaded YouTube videos.
She is, apparently, enamored by plastic surgery. Her big butt is mostly implants. She looks like a skinny bony-butt girl in 'before' pictures. She's also had a lot of plastic surgery done on her face, notably her nose and lips.
She looks pretty good right now, sort of like the slutty niece of Anne Heche. Often when people start having multiple plastic surgeries, they don't know when to stop. Michael Jackson's first new nose looked pretty good. He was a handsome young man, in Thriller days. By the end, he looked like the ghost of Sissy Spacek.
I remember, late 80's, a dancer at the Brass Rail, who had a very pretty face, and big Lee press-on tits, all covered in Frankenstein scars, and I felt sad for her, even though she would probably have made me semi-hard, if I saw her in street clothes.
I saw Iggy on TV twice in the past two weeks, once as musical guest on Saturday Night Live, (which has been pretty funny this season, so far), and Wednesday night on Jimmy Fallon. I enjoyed watching the SNL performance, but I can't remember what the song sounded like. It wasn't bad, but I didn't find it memorable. I don't listen to radio, so maybe I've heard her songs, and didn't know who was singing. If I did, they didn't leave a lasting impression.
Back in the day, music stars started with talent, and worked their way up, playing to larger and larger crowds, as they improved. Now, you just have to want to be a star, and convince other people that you are one, even if you needed to cheat to do it. Someone who thinks they can make some money off of you will help. Remember that Kim Kardashian became famous by being a friend of Paris Hilton, and by releasing a sex tape. The rest is just because enough people want to wish they were her.
Iggy's about 25 now. She looks a lot better than she did. She's making a ton of money. She's one bad surgeon's cut away from throwing it all down the drain. When you're sitting on 19 in black jack, you don't hit, hoping to get an ace or a deuce, even if the dealer is showing a face. The odds of improving aren't worth the risk.
