JCHIn terms of privacy...
January 31st 2009 11:49
Following local media reports about a house he purchased in Key West, Fla., Kenny Chesney has decided against moving in and now plans to sell the property. Photos and details of the house were widely circulated on the Internet, and one Web site based in Key West printed the exact address of the estate. Chesney reportedly paid $5.7 million for the 7,000-square-foot house. In a statement released by his record label, Chesney said, "It's funny how you can be moving out before you even move in. I may have been naive to think I could just go down to the Keys and disappear, because that was the idea. I wanted to find a place where I could just be and thought I'd found it. But with all the buzz since we signed the papers, the last thing I want to do to some place I love as much as Key West is change the dynamics, especially for the locals who have been so good to me, so I'm stopping the insanity before it begins. The 'for sale' sign is back up, and I'm just not going to be able to take possession of the house." Source
With the invention of Google, the term "star maps" has superfluous. With a couple of key words it takes less than ten seconds to find the address of almost any celebrity as well as a detailed map. Yes, this is a sad but true fact. Conversely, it seems that for most country music artists (okay, well maybe not Kenny Chesney), maintaining a certain level of normality is an achievable feat despite their celebrity. The same of course cannot be said for the likes of Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and other various young stars. Thus the question then becomes, is it a simple case of geography?
In Nashville you can to encounter multiple artists within the day (for example, a friend of mine visiting Franklin recently encountered Keith Urban at a local Starbucks going about his business without bother) and for some reason people neglect to look twice. Is it a case of respect for the artist or are people simply used to it? On the flip side, Taylor Swift can't walk two steps out of her hotel room in Los Angeles without the paparazzi having a field day and I am pretty sure that they are also used to the presence of the rich (sorry, to be politically correct, financially stable as we are now in an alleged recession) and famous.
There's some superficial food for thought.
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