We live in a 24-hour news cycle. We’re constantly bombarded with content about our favorite celebrities, political leaders, tragedies, and victories. We can become consumed with learning more about our favorite famous peoples’ every move.
Vulture created an extremely smart and Meta post about how the media would’ve covered the lives of Ally and Jackson Maine, the fictional characters in “A Star is Born”. It hones in on the media wildfires that can occur when people are sky rocketed to fame and the power of social media. In the article, it creates fake but wildly realistic mock headlines about their potential media portrayal.
“A Star Is Born presents a vision of the celebrity economy without tweets, takes, listicles, and think pieces — which surely makes the movie much less aggravating, but we can’t help feeling like something crucial has been lost. So we decided to fill in the gaps ourselves.” Ranging from mainstream outlets like Washington Post or The Cut to the more salacious like US Weekly, TMZ or rumors written in blind item form.
The article has spoilers so don’t check if you haven’t watched (but what are you waiting for?!) and created a bunch of headlines about how the media might have handled the movies’ scandals in real time. A Buzzfeed article’s fake headline reads: “A Country Star Brought an Aspiring Singer Onstage With Him and She Was So Good I’m Crying” or a fake New York Post cover packs a punny punch with a “Urine Trouble, Mister” after an unfortunate peeing scene in the film.
Needless to say, the fictional media response feels spot-on. If you’re a fan of the movie, you’ll love Vulture’s take on how this movie would’ve been portrayed in the mainstream pop culture media.