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Street artist and prankster Banksy, who snuck 500 altered Paris Hilton cds into UK record stores last week, says that the LA heiress is probably too blonde to understand his dry wit, according to PR Inside.
The reclusive stencilist, who is threatening to cause a stir here in Los Angeles later this month, let his publicist do the talking regarding the doctored discs. "He's saying you can be a celebrity, but you don't have to do music," Jo Brooks explained. "I don't know what the reaction will be in America or whether she would even get it."
Some argue that Banksy is only drawing more attention to the Simple Life star, who doesn't really need the help. Her album Paris debuted last week at #6 on the Billboard Top 200 behind P. Diddy's latest manufactured girl-group Danity Kane, who topped the charts. The new Outkast soundtrack was #2, followed by the latest cd from Christina Aguilera, the suprisingly sucessful Spanish-language Mana, and The Cheetah Girls 2 soundtrack, respectfully.
While it might keep the skinny blonde in the Top 10, it's also helping Americans discover the British prankster, who recently tagged a wall in Bristol with art of a naked man hanging on to a windowsill. The graffiti was left alone after the local city council asked the public to decide its fate and the public asked that it stay. Hot.
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What a smug piece of shit. Who does he think he is to decide what is and is not Pop music and whom is capable of recording an album?! Is Banksy the new Rudy Giuliani?
And that his prank might bring attention to her? The name-riding shenanigans of a man who is a niche within street / public art (which itself is a niche, a blip on the art scene, which something like 1% of the country are even conscious of anyway!) might bring Paris - probably the most recognizable household name in the country, as much of a name brand as coke and apple - added attention?! Yes, I can imagine.
I heard about the prank and thought it was kinda funny, i even have the "That's Hot" track from it, but the constant insults , questioning of her intelligence, and use of "blonde humor" to show just how incredibly "dry" his wit is is somewhere between unfunny and douchebagish.
Let's all sit down and listen to Banksy preach to us whom is and is not capable of making music... afterwards maybe someone from Home Depot can talk to us about whom is and is not capable of making cut out stencils.
To the commenter above:
Dude, you just devoted several minutes of your life--minutes that you will never, ever get back, and that you could have spent doing something else--defending Paris Hilton against somebody who claims that she is kind of stupid and that her music isn't very good.
I just would like you to think about that for a moment, before going on with your day.
well said dainel. love your work