Ashley Alexandra Dupre is everywhere right now. In case you don’t know who she is, congrats on your self-imposed media blackout. For the rest of us, the pretty prostitute with a sob story and musical aspirations who took down the Governor of New York has been a staple in every form of media we’ve laid eyes on all week.
Her song, What We Want, sounds as passible (and forgettable) to me as any of the pop tarts that have burned up the Top 40 charts for far too long. Her song has been reviewed by the National Post in Canada, which reports some pretty staggering statistics:
With
almost two million individual playsover two million individual plays (it should breakthreefive million by days end, methinks) onher MySpace pageher Amie St. music page (MySpace has come undone) What We Want by Ashley Alexandra Dupré (aka Miss Spitzer) is probably the most listened to song in North America right now.
But that’s not all. MTV reports that New York radio station Z100 has premiered her song over the radio waves of the nation’s largest city. The Washington Post is talking about her prospects of making it big, and references others who were given second chances at a music career after PR nightmares. The song is already for sale (I’ve seen people on blogs saying it’s been purchased in mass quantities already, I’ve got no validation on that yet) and rumors are flying that she’s getting offers to do covers on certain magazines of ill-repute.
The word is, she won’t be facing charges. Which means that the path is relatively clear for her to run right through the open door of celebrity.
Which brings me to my point: we’ve already so blurred the line between female celebrity - be it pop star, actress, or socialite - and prostitute, is there really anything standing in her way? We live in an age when certain porn stars have virtually household names. Perhaps through Ms. Dupre, the fusion of the world of beautiful celebrity and sex-kitten-for -hire will finally be complete.
After all, isn’t that precisely what we want?
Is she famous b/c she took down a governor? Or because she is young? (22 while the gov’s wife is a gorgeous 50)? Or b/c she is a criminal getting away w/ breaking the law?
We didn’t used to admire whores, only pity them.