Friday, October 30, 2020

What is an A-lister?

 Hi Natty!  Are you having lots of fun being Rock and Roll Queen?  I hope you are.  Please keep yourself healthy and safe.  Lately, I've been wondering what an "A-lister" is.  According to Google, An A-list celebrity is a professional at the very top of their career. ... It may be a bankable movie star who has a very strong track record of box office successes, or a pop star with a string of #1 hit singles and albums.  So if the box office is dead because of the coronavirus, would that same movie star still be an A-lister?  How about a pop star with 20 million views on YouTube but crappy sales on her last album?  I kind of thought that an A-lister would get invited to all the great parties and get in free at night clubs and restaurants.  Somebody who is very popular.  Here is a screen capture of trending searches on Yahoo:


Hm.  I can see how Kim Kardashian and Scarlett Johansson could be A-listers, but I don't know who Trevor Lawrence or Blaire Erskine is.  Those are just trending searches.  I suppose if people aren't looking them up, then they're not popular.  Or that Kim Kardashian and Scarlett Johansson are about as popular as home refinancing and yard signs.  Does that mean if you were to bring a yard sign to a nightclub, you can get in for free?  Sometimes the trending searches list has no people in it...

Who knows what popular is nowadays.  Most people are just "some guy on YouTube" lately.  It's those damned cell phones, I tell you!  Nobody is a celebrity anymore!  Cats rule the Internet!