Originally posted by What if:
Grow up kid. When will u pple get sick of all these idol shit? Now still got what star idol. when will it ever end? All wanabes only. Like that if everyone can be stars, what's the magic of celebrities? Even my neighbour next door also can be superstar liao. I rather stars emerge the traditional way. mysterious and sudden.
You have a point. Traditionally, the stars usually appear like you say "mysterious and sudden" and that is their advantage.
The Supertar and Idol contestants have the problem of being overexposed, but their advantage is that they have accumulated a decent amount of fanbase.
Then there are artistes packaged in mysterious ways, who hardly show their faces, like Yong Bang, Ocean Ou and Guo Mei Mei.
There are those who shoot to stardom with their first album, like Stefanie Sun, and there are some who didn't do so well in Singapore at first but later carve a niche for themselves in Taiwan like Tanya Chua.
The market has different needs, so each type of star, idol, artiste have their own niche.