Richard Dyer's Pop Star Theory

There are four main stages of this pop start theory, this included:

1, Starts As Constructions.

This means when stars are constructed, just artificial images, even if they are represented as being 'real people' same like everybody else, by showing real emotions. This is certainly true in pop music industry as the constructions of bands and artists is not even hidden from the public anymore, and sometimes we get to know about them more than we expect or want.(e.g. the stars scandals etc)

2, Industry And Audience

This means when starts are manufactured by the music industry to serve a purpose, in order to make money out of audiences, who respond to various elements of a star person by buying such as: records and becoming their fans as well as promoting their stars external, such as: buying the products where they are represented e.g. Miley Cyrus clothes etc. The main purpose of the institution is simple: to make money and make their stars become more popular.

http://www.zazzle.co.uk/miley+cyrus+gifts ( I have picked this website for the reason, in order to show how stars advertising them-self as well as showing their creativity by letting their managers to use their ''face'' and represent them on products, like in this case Miley Cyrus, who is famous young singer loved especially by the young generation )

3, Ideology And Cultural

This means when stars shared their cultural values and attitudes, as well as promoting a certain ideology e.g. Micheal Jackson who was king of pop and Madonna queen of pop. Both of them are promoting a certain ideology and sharing their attitudes to public, throughout lot's of scandals as well as the charities, which increased the sympathy from the audience, and has made them as their ''idols'' because they are representing the certain ideology, which helps to shape the cultural, social and ideology aspects.

4, Character And Personality

This means that when a star begins as a 'real' human, possessing gender and race characteristics, and existing against a social background. Another theory which could described ''Character and Personality'' is that ''the star transformation process turns them into a construct, but the construct has a foundation in the real.'', which is also important to know.

In order to make it more specific, I decided to show you this theory on ''Britney Spears'' who is an American singer, the mostly popular in 90's, who I believe fit perfectly to this theory of pop star by creating a small presentation on power-point, and using an internet in order to find as much information about her as possible as well as up-to-date information's.

The websites I have used, in order to create this presentation are:

• http://www.britneyspears.com/index.aspx= the official Britney Spears website
• wikipedia = Britney Spears