| harufi |
2nd January 2013 08:05 PM |
I'm not sure if "has-beens" is the term I'd use for most of these :P For me, a has-been is someone who will keep trying to replicate their previous level of success even if its obvious it won't happen. :)
Like people have said, Hilary Duff seems to be happy enough to settle down with her family and isn't worried about doing music/movies. The amount she charges for an appearance is probably because she isn't really interested in making any, and if she gets asked to then, well, that another $500,000 towards her family being financially stable in the long-term :P I was never really into her music or anything, but I kind of respect her in that she seems to want to raise her kids like a normal mother.
I can see the AAR heading into has-been territory...in one way, I think its normal for them to have a couple of hit singles to break into the mainstream, then just put out albums for their fanbase rather than trying to get another hit single. But at the same time, their last 2 albums have had poor reviews (from what I've heard I'm no fan either) and they still seem to think they can put out music that the mainstream will eat up. I feel they're stuck in 2004 and don't realise that people have moved on.
I'm not so sure about Avril. As people have said, the whole punk-version-of-Britney-for-angsty-teenagers was only gonna last for so long (I'm surprised it lasted so long tbh). I think she realised that she needed to put out music that was definitely more pop than what she was doing in 2002-2004 (more pop-punk/rock) to stay in the mainstream, which is why we got TBDT. Yes, Girlfriend did really well and some other singles also did decently but I think the problem was her image. If she was gonna do a pop album like that she shouldn't have stuck with that tired rebel teenager look. Goodbye Lullaby was all over the place for me. She was putting out generic pop singles but then the rest of the album was a snooze-fest...and then she had a dark cover that made me think it was gonna be a real rock album or something reminscent of her first two albums. Her albums still sell decently but I don't think anyone cares about her anymore, and the main reason being that she looks like she's stuck in 2002 (I mean, she's 28 and getting married again and yet she still has the same image as when she was 17 ffs). With her next album I think she really needs to reinvent her self if she really wants a comeback; noone I know can take her seriously, and my friend who used to be the BIGGEST Avril fan for years and saw her live several times was so disappointed when she perfomed on the X Factor (last year I think). As well as being an awful perfomance she didn't even look like she was enjoying it.
And for the former Mr. Britney Spears...just sounds desperate lol.
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