Are We Human, or Are We Pop Star?
Through the mockumentary Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and the documentary Miss Americana, the limits of humanizing the pop star persona are tested.
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In our monthly column Laughed to Death, Brianna Zigler takes a look at the way comedy and existentialism go hand-in-hand in seemingly unlikely ways. For this installment, she examines the humanity lost on the pop star persona through Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana.
“I’d love to get Conner to the point where people forget that he’s a musician,” reflects Paula Klein (played by Sarah Silverman), manager to pop superstar Conner4Real (Andy Samberg), “where he’s just kind of everywhere like oxygen, or gravity, or clinical depression. He’s just