<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="12259132" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="foo-fighters" source="Orion">Foo Fighters</keyword> were set to play at a <keyword id="11898471" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="music" source="Orion">music</keyword> festival in <keyword id="12910347" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="paraguay" source="Orion">Paraguay</keyword> before it was canceled on Tuesday. </li><li>A 9-year-old fan played songs by the Foo Fighters and Nirvana on the drums outside their hotel. </li></ul>A young Foo Fighters fan shared a heartwarming moment with <keyword id="13479814" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="taylor-hawkins" source="Orion">Taylor Hawkins</keyword> just three days before his <keyword id="6355784" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="death" source="Orion">death</keyword>. The Foo Fighters were scheduled to headline<a href="https://www.musicfestivalwizard.com/festivals/asuncionico-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> the Asunciónico Festival</a>, one of Paraguay's largest rock festivals, on Tuesday before the event was cut short due to severe weather. However, that didn't deter 9-year-old Sofía Emma, who looks up to the band. "She was inspired to play drums by her uncle, who is a drummer and a big fan of the Foo Fighters," Emma's father, Julio Peralta, told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/26/us/young-drummer-paraguay-taylor-hawkins-trnd/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Julius (@Julius_GPC) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1506474821881839618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2022</a></blockquote>Peralta told CNN that a family friend knew what hotel the band checked into, so they grabbed Emma's drum kit and went to the hotel in hopes of meeting the Foo Fighters. The outlet reported that Emma, who's been playing drums for two years, set up her kit outside among the other waiting fans and performed songs — by the Foo Fighters and Nirvana — as the crowd cheered. The musical display caught Hawkins' attention, prompting him to go downstairs from the hotel and meet the crowd. CNN reported that he first addressed the crowd to apologize for the canceled show, then he met Emma.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Julius (@Julius_GPC) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1506588289553207300?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2022</a></blockquote>The outlet reported that fans carried Emma over a barrier to make the once-in-a-lifetime moment happen. On Twitter, Peralta shared a picture of Hawkins and Emma to mark the occasion. "Since my daughter found out that the Foo Fighters were coming, she started a campaign to meet them," Peralta <a href="https://twitter.com/Julius_GPC/status/1506474821881839618" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on Twitter. "Today we take his drums to play in front of the Sheraton and look who came out at his call. Dreams come true."Representatives for Hawkins and Peralta did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.Three days later, the Foo Fighters' official Twitter page revealed that <a href="https://www.insider.com/foo-fighters-drummer-taylor-hawkins-dead-at-50-drums-2022-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hawkins died at the age of 50</a> in Bogota, Colombia. On Saturday Colombian officials said <a href="https://www.insider.com/colombian-officials-launch-investigation-into-taylor-hawkins-death-2022-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an ambulance was called to his hotel after he experienced chest pains. </a>Officials added that emergency crews attempted to resuscitate Hawkins before he was declared deceased.Colombian <a href="https://www.insider.com/taylor-hawkins-death-foo-fighter-10-different-drugs-in-system-2022-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigators later revealed that Hawkins had 10 different drugs in his system at the time of his death. </a>A urine toxicology report found the presence of substances like antidepressants, marijuana, and opioids. BBC reported that the cause of death has not yet been determined, and it's not clear if drugs were a factor. Peralta told CNN that Emma was performing at a local restaurant when they learned the news.<blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CbA3K2kA8lX" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank"></a> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by Emma Sofía (@emmasofiamusic)<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime=""></time></div></blockquote>In an Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CbjhGvvMGec/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a>, Emma and her family paid tribute to Hawkins on Saturday. "There are no words to describe what we feel. We are devastated to hear of the passing of Taylor Hawkins, our thoughts are with his loved ones and fans," the caption reads. The caption continued: "We will remember him for his charisma and the beautiful gesture he had with Emma. Taylor gave us something to believe in. He was, is and always will be an inspiration."

Taylor Hawkins surprised a 9-year-old aspiring drummer just 3 days before his death

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6606372" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Jameela-Jamil">Jameela Jamil</keyword> will star as the <keyword id="964" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="villain">villain</keyword> Titania in the new <keyword id="47501" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Marvel">Marvel</keyword> series "<keyword id="4631338" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="she-hulk">She-Hulk</keyword>." </li><li>"The Good Place" actor was cast along with Tatiana Maslany of "Orphan Black," who will play She-Hulk.</li><li>The show is set to premiere on <keyword id="46161" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Disney">Disney</keyword> Plus in 2022.</li></ul>Jameela Jamil will swap out her overly positive personality in "The Good Place" for a role as a villain in Disney Plus' new <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/marvel-disney-plus">Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series</a> "She-Hulk."Jamil, known for her role in NBC's sitcom "The Good Place," will star as Titania, the arch-enemy of She-Hulk."Orphan Black's" Tatiana Maslany is set to take on the role of She-Hulk.The plot revolves around Maslany's character <a href="https://www.marvel.com/characters/she-hulk-jennifer-walters">Jennifer Walters, who gets a blood transfusion from her cousin</a>, Bruce Banner better known as <keyword id="220662" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Hulk">Hulk</keyword>. After the transfusion, Walters has super strength and the Hulk's iconic green color.But it's not a superhero show without a villain. That's where Jamil steps in as Walters' long-term arch-nemesis, Titania. In the original comic, Titania has both super strength and super stamina, according to <a href="https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2569097/jameela-jamils-she-hulk-character-everything-you-need-to-know-about-titania">Cinema Blend</a>.She-Hulk was written by Jim Shooter and Matt Zeck in 1984. Originally, the villain Titania pretended to be a superhero, according to Cinema Blend.The comic is being transformed into a comedy that is expected to premiere in 2022 on Disney Plus, <a href="https://deadline.com/2021/06/she-hulk-jameela-jamil-cast-disney-marvel-series-villian-1234773358/">Deadline reported</a>. The show's lead writer is Jessica Gao from "Rick and Morty." The series will be co-directed by Kat Coiro from "Single Parents" and Anu Valia of "Never Have I Ever."Mark Ruffalo will make an appearance as Hulk, and Renée Elise Goldsberry, Ginger Gonzaga, and Tim Roth are also cast in the show, Deadline reported.Outside of acting, Jamil is also known for her activism and her I Weigh body neutrality campaign, <a href="https://www.insider.com/how-jameela-jamil-became-famous-bio-life-dating-radio-conspiracies-2020-2">Insider previously reported</a>.Jamil started her career as a model and BBC Radio 1 presenter. She later moved to Los Angeles, California, where she earned the role as Tahani Al-Jamil on "The Good Place."

Jameela Jamil is set to join 'She-Hulk' as a Marvel villain on Disney Plus

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="31308" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Travis-Barker">Travis Barker</keyword> posted an Instagram dump for <keyword id="28471" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kourtney-Kardashian">Kourtney Kardashian</keyword>'s birthday.</li><li>"You're a blessing to this world," he wrote in the caption. </li><li>The slideshow included a video of <keyword id="29878" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kardashian">Kardashian</keyword> sucking on Barker's thumb.</li></ul>Kourtney Kardashian, the eldest Kardashian sibling, turned 42 on Sunday.She was tagged in dozens of Instagram posts for her birthday, but her boyfriend Travis Barker's post stood out from the rest.Barker honored his girlfriend's birthday with an 'Instagram dump,' giving their fans a glimpse inside their relationship."I F------ LOVE YOU," Barker wrote alongside the post.<blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CN0WPann8wk" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank"></a> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by travisbarker (@travisbarker)<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime=""></time></div></blockquote>"YOU'RE A BLESSING TO THIS WORLD," he added. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY." The post includes photos of the couple hugging, kissing, and holding hands, as well as a shot of Barker touching Kardashian's ankle.Barker also included a video of Kardashian in the post. In the video, she sucks on his finger before dissolving into giggles.Kardashian gave her followers a look at how Barker celebrated her birthday in person on her Instagram.She shared a video of a giant bouquet of flowers and tagged Barker in it. The bouquet, which looks like it has hundreds of flowers on it, came with a mobile of floating flowers over it. <div type="image" title="kourtney travis bday side by side" height="900" width="1200" msid="82135450" hostid="261"></div>Barker also shared a photo of a dessert with "Happy birthday Kourtney" written on the plate to his story.The picture appeared to be from a birthday dinner for Kardashian.The Blink-182 drummer and reality star went public with their relationship in February.Although they haven't been together long, the relationship seems serious.Barker revealed he <a href="https://www.insider.com/travis-barker-kourtney-kardashian-name-tattoo-chest-photos-2021-4">got a tattoo of Kardashian's name on his chest</a> just a month after they became a public couple.

Travis Barker said Kourtney Kardashian was a 'blessing' in an Instagram post for her birthday

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="17995" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Prince-Harry">Prince Harry</keyword> and <keyword id="2959098" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Meghan-Markle">Meghan Markle</keyword> spoke with Oprah about life as members of Britain's royal family.</li><li>Soon after the interview aired Sunday, the hashtag #AbolishTheMonarchy began trending on Twitter.</li><li>This isn't the first time calls to abolish the <keyword id="90317" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Monarchy">monarchy</keyword> have been made.</li></ul>Following <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/harry-and-meghan-oprah-interview">Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's CBS interview with Oprah Winfrey</a> on Sunday night, <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23abolishthemonarchy&amp;src=typed_queryuery">#AbolishTheMonarchy</a> trended on Twitter. The interview contained numerous revelations that left many viewers stunned. One of the biggest moments was when Markle said during the interview that before her son Archie was born, members of the royal family had "<a href="https://www.insider.com/royals-concerns-over-archie-skin-tone-meghan-harry-oprah-interview-2021-3">concerns and conversations</a>" about "how dark his skin would be." Winfrey <a href="https://www.insider.com/queen-skin-meghan-and-harry-baby-itv-2021-3">later said</a> on "CBS This Morning" that the family members that had this conversation were neither Prince Phillip nor Queen Elizabeth.Markle also told Winfrey that <a href="https://twitter.com/nazirafzal/status/1368745091230208006?s=20">she felt she was not being protected</a> by the monarchy, especially when Markle vocalized concerns for her mental health. She explained to Winfrey that she went to a senior official in the palace and was denied help."Nothing was ever done," <a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a35755552/meghan-markle-mental-health-royals/">Markle told Winfrey</a> during the interview. "So we had to find a solution." She said this led them to step down as senior members of the royal family in January 2020.As the interview took place, social media users took to Twitter to decry Markle and Harry's experiences and say that the problematic way the couple was treated was the reason why the monarchy should no longer be an institution within the United Kingdom.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Lisa Tilley (@Tilley101) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1368818921550254081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2021</a></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Mary-Ellen (@HullLecturer) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1368857869928562689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2021</a></blockquote>The idea may seem like an extreme reaction to a single media moment, but it's been a popular thought for years.<h2>Calls to abolish the monarchy aren't new</h2>This call to abolish the monarchy isn't new. It's happened multiple times on and off social media. Just two years ago, in 2019, the same <a href="https://www.insider.com/abolish-the-monarchy-twitter-queen-suspends-parliament-boris-johnson-019-8">hashtag trended</a> as Queen Elizabeth agreed to shut down Parliament during Brexit deals.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Republic (@RepublicStaff) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1368786872789524481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2021</a></blockquote>Republic, a <a href="https://www.republic.org.uk/a_new_head_of_state">grassroots movement in the United Kingdom</a>, has also been making these calls for years. The group "is a membership-based pressure group calling for the monarchy to be replaced with an elected head of state and for the adoption of a new republican constitution. It was founded in 1983 and has been active ever since. In 2016, the Independent <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/british-republican-group-calls-referendum-monarchy-when-queen-dies-a6993216.html">reported</a> that the group claimed: "the British monarchy is not the 'harmless tourist attraction some people think' - rather, it has a history of abusing public money and meddling in politics."According to a 2020 <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-in-five-brits-would-abolish-monarchy-180926541.html">YouGov poll</a>, 22% of Britons agreed with the idea of abolishing the monarchy. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Republic (@RepublicStaff) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1368812231727734784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2021</a></blockquote>Insider's Mikhaila Friel <a href="https://www.insider.com/what-would-happen-to-royal-family-if-britain-abolished-monarchy-2020-3">spoke with royal expert Marlene Koenig in 2020</a>, however, who told Insider, "the republican movement is small" and "the political system is stable."<h2>It would not be an easy process to abolish the monarchy</h2>The royal family has existed in the UK for over 1,200 years, so getting rid of the monarchy would not exactly be an easy process."Historically, bloody revolutions are how monarchs tend to meet their demise," <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/evjevn/abolish-monarchy-uk-prince-andrew">VICE reporter Aaron Drapkin wrote</a>, "But military coups and civil wars aren't really our thing anymore."Because the monarchy has no political power, according to the <a href="https://www.royal.uk/role-monarchy#:~:text=This%20means%20that%2C%20while%20The,the%20life%20of%20the%20nation.">official royal website</a>, any major legislation to make changes, including abolishing the monarchy, would be put forth by Parliament. The abolition of the monarchy would need to come from a referendum or a vote to make said change. "It would take legislation, an act of Parliament, signed by the Sovereign to end the monarchy," Koenig previously told Insider. "The monarchy is not going anywhere anytime soon."Even if the movement grew stronger, it would most likely have to wait until after the death of Queen Elizabeth, Graham Smith, the chief executive of the Republic, told the Independent in 2016. Smith told the Independent, "it needs to be a straight-forward constitutional reform referendum. We may win or we may lose but the succession would change public opinion, it will change the nature of the debate."

Calls to #AbolishTheMonarchy went viral after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Oprah interview

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Insider reached out to paparazzi who pursued <keyword id="14710" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Britney-spears">Britney Spears</keyword> at the height of her fame. </li><li>A New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/framing-britney-spears.html">documentary</a> has forced a reckoning over the pop icon's treatment by the <keyword id="6354777" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Media">media</keyword>. </li><li>They insist they were just documenting what they saw, even if history sees it differently.</li></ul>No, the paparazzi who pursued Britney Spears are not sorry. "I'm in it for the money and the history," <keyword id="6354803" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Los-Angeles">Los Angeles</keyword> paparazzo Rick Mendoza said in a phone interview. "You think I give a f--k about somebody getting up on the wrong side of the bed, and they don't want their photograph taken? I don't give a s--t."Paparazzi literally translates as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/books/review/the-golden-age-of-the-paparazzi.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">buzzing mosquitoes</a>. None one has ever looked upon a gaggle of them and thought an empathy convention had broken out. But a widely-discussed New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/framing-britney-spears.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documentary</a> about <a href="https://www.insider.com/inside-britney-spears-conservatorship-freebritney-movement-2020-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spears</a>, "Framing Britney Spears," has reactivated interest in her iconically bad-some would say triggering-interactions with the paparazzi. It seemed plausible that some of them might be having regrets. But when Insider reached out to several of the photographers who paid their bills selling images of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/britney-spears-net-worth-money-spending-fortune-conservatorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Britney Spears</a>, the question of whether they are culpable in breaking the young star's poise all but failed to register as a reasonable question."Hollywood used to control the market. The paparazzi took that away," Mendoza insisted. "We made them people, too. I'll show you when they're taking out their garbage. I'll show you when they're picking their nose. Do people want to see that? Obviously yes."If someone's entertained, then the system is working," said Mendoza. (The two have a long history. Mendoza sued Spears for a 2007 incident, where he alleged the pop star had intentionally driven over his foot as she was leaving a parking garage after a judge suspended her rights to see her two young sons. The case was settled two years later, People <a href="https://people.com/celebrity/britney-spears-settles-lawsuit-with-paparazzi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.) In the Hollywood paparazzo's perspective, he and Britney Spears - and Christina Aguilera and Paris Hilton - were scrimmaging in a fluid, ongoing public relations tournament that fields publicists, magazine editors and <keyword id="4578" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="entertainment">entertainment</keyword> show producers, too. According to this narrative, the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/britney-spears-is-ending-las-vegas-show-2017-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Princess of Pop</a> wanted cameras trained on her, until she didn't. And how were photographers to know the difference. <div type="image" title="BS w bodyguard" height="1760" width="2346" msid="81099860" hostid="261"></div>"Britney was just as involved in when and how she was seen," insisted Meg Handler, who started seeing Britney pics while editing photos at the late-nineties Village Voice and couldn't stop seeing them by the time she did a stint on The Star magazine picture desk. "Those photographers were called. Most of the time, her people called. 'Britney's going to be here.' 'Britney's going to be there. That's how it worked.""I think with Britney it just got out of control," she said.A representative for Spears did not respond to a request for comment. <h3>THE DAYS OF PEAK PAPARAZZI </h3>The cat-and-mouse game between celebrities and photographers dates back to 1955, when the hypeman Harry Brand alerted the media as blonde ingenue Marilyn Monroe just so happened to be standing above an up-blowing grated in a white dress. By the time Britney shaved that head, the paparazzi game had grown unsustainably filthy and rich.It's arguable that Opening Day of Peak Paparazzi was Aug. 28, 2003, at Radio City <keyword id="6354530" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="music">Music</keyword> Hall. The VMAs. "Celebutants" such as Hilary Duff were getting record deals - their media queries outpacing those for actual artists - and Paris Hilton's first album had debuted days earlier. Paparazzi crawled to fill every available space. They lined every exit as the shooters sought to capitalize on this content motherlode. Snoop Dogg was photographed leading two women by leash into Radio City, on leashes; it was not a photo op Harry Brand would have seen coming. The 2003 VMAs are, however, best known for Britney, Christina Aguilera, and Madonna performing "Like a Virgin." You need not have had cable to remember the <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/1901258/vma-unforgettable-moments/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pictures</a> from when those three kissed."That's when it stopped being contained," said Julie Farman, an Epic publicist who handled Michael Jackson. "That to me was a huge inflection point." Not much more than a year prior, the game was smaller. Mendoza began his career photographing, printing, and mailing pictures of '80s metal bands on the Sunset Strip. He moved on to shooting baseball players in Japan by 2000. When he returned, to focused on "all these little girls out here that were playing the game." Paris Hilton, whom he knew, for starters. While Mendoza was away the price of a professional-level digital camera had fallen to under $3000, down from around $20,000 when he was starting out. One shot of Jessica Simpson could pay for the investment 10 times over. Paparazzi work was now open to any hustler with an index finger and a dream. "Photo agency owners would go around to hot spots, mainly places where they got their information," paparazzo Giles Harrison said. "You'd find someone who was parking cars last week at Spago restaurant." This drop in entry barrier coincided with an explosion of outlets for celebrity photography content, such as Ok! And Hello! and an US that had just gone weekly. Just as significantly, fees for utilizing informer-style tip lines - the basis of "we caught so-and-so" stories - were going, up up, up. The-opportunist-to-<a href="https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1851/weegee-arthur-fellig-american-born-austria-1899-1968/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Weegee</a> ratio grew lopsided as point-and-click and email send washed away holdout craftspersons and waved in grifters."Some photographers are good and some are bad. And some of us were not good people," Harrison said. "You might as well have thrown red meat to a shark," Harrison said.<div type="image" title="BS signs in blue.JPG" height="2333" width="3110" msid="81099862" hostid="261"></div>As her career exploded, Spears had a lot of competition for media attention, a wave she had learned to ride back when few believed in her. The lenses were her road companions while she was playing the malls of America. Their attention mattered no less once she had made it. And by then so many saw in her the opportunity for livelihood. "That's where you got that pandemonium, that fever," said Randy Bauer, whose agency captured and sold the moment Britney Spears shaved her head, "because there was six figures, potentially, at the end of all that."He adds: "Those things she'll forever be known for, that was her own doing. We were just there documenting that." Some of the most difficult to watch moments in "Framing Britney Spears" are from the run-up to the meltdown that would define her and lead to the <a href="https://www.insider.com/inside-britney-spears-conservatorship-freebritney-movement-2020-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conservatorship</a> controlled by her father that's now at the heart of the "Free Britney" movement. Vulnerability has been rarely more tangible, the celebrity machine so out of control. By then, Diane Sawyer had <a href="https://www.insider.com/britney-spears-diane-sawyer-2003-interview-fan-backlash-documentary-reactions-2021-2">asked</a> her on national television "what did you do" to bring her ex <a href="https://www.insider.com/justin-timberlake-britney-spears-apology-janet-jackson-2021-2">Justin Timberlake</a> "so much pain," and she had been dragged for her choices as a mom. "What can you say about misogyny?" New York Times critic-at-large Wesley Morris observes in the documentary. "There's a whole infrastructure to support it and when it's time for people to come, in a misogynistic culture, for a woman, there's a whole apparatus ready to do it."Chaotic scenes from the 2000s of photographers crowding Britney would not happen today, those who were part of it insisted. There's better mental health awareness and more accountability for how the media behaves. Money's the matter. Celebrity is too diffuse in 2021 to bring forth many $30,000 images, not when stars curate their own images on Instagram.It's worth noting that Spears' peer Beyonce - both are 39 - managed to elude the worst of America's celebrity obsession. The R&amp;B star toured and shopped with mother Tina Knowles and her father, R&amp;B music executive Matthew Knowles.A hip-hop flack recalled watching Britney making her way alone through the Beverly Hills Mondrian lobby - alone - while "Hit Me Baby" was a hot record."Britney had no protection," she said. In footage of that 2003 "Like a Virgin" performance, Beyonce can be seen in the front-row, clapping and smiling. She's the one who got away.

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