The advantage to have buttloads of disposable cash is that you can buy whatever you want. In Paris Hilton's case, this includes some of the hottest writers and producers in the contemporary music scene. She's also making pop music, so it's not as if she'll be recording "Nessum Dorma."
Superstar DJ Paul Oakenfold, who remixed Hilton's song "Turn It Up," sums up the conventional wisdom about her singing: "I think a lot of people were expecting it to be a lot worse than it is."Hilton has recorded an album's worth of material — 10 tracks — with Scott Storch, the producer behind hits for 50 Cent, Beyoncé and Dr. Dre. But the lineup keeps changing; she continues to outsource songwriting duties to new writer-producers such as Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald (who has worked with Pink and Kelly Clarkson) and recent Oscar winners for best original song, Three 6 Mafia.
It's impossible to ignore the perception that the heiress, 25, can pay as much as it takes to surround herself with hitmakers, all but guaranteeing the chart primacy of whatever she records. But according to Kara DioGuardi, who has penned hits for a constellation of Top 40 stars and who co-wrote three songs with Hilton, she seems to have found her musical niche.
"It's fun music, it's danceable, with elements of Blondie, a little reggae and great beats," DioGuardi says. "She has a very sweet voice, very breathy. It sounds exactly like what you would want Paris to be doing."
Which is to say Hilton doesn't totally stink. In an interview with The Times last year, Storch offered similarly qualified kudos: "She's actually got quite a musical ability. Her rhythm is better than a lot of people I've recorded in the past."
Even cynical journalists such as Village Voice gossip columnist Michael Musto, who traveled from New York to Los Angeles to interview Hilton for Out's cover story, begrudgingly admit to being won over by the international socialite and her music. "I've written a lot of negative stuff against her," Musto says. "I came to bury her and I've ended up praising her."Now listen to the praise: "Her fans are not responding to the concept of her fame for fame's sake," he says. "They're responding to her personality. The blankness. I'm not saying it as a diss. She has the quality of allowing any viewer to project whatever they want on her. That's why she transcends all media."
Wow. Michael Musto is getting heavy. So blankness is key. Keep that in mind aspiring socialites.
Will Paris Burn? [LA Times]
Twisted Humor says:
News: Major problem on the set of Paris Hilton Music Video.
She deep-throated the microphone.
terk says:
Paris Hilton is whore-rific!
Girly Girl says:
My Chia Pet has a higher IQ than Paris Hilton.
And the album may not suck, but she sure does... screw her.
danny says:
im listening to it right now, i love it and i dont even like paris...I LOVE HER! HEEEY! haha
tocutetoscoot says:
It will suck, don't believe the hype! Anyone who knows music will think it is crap!
Lisa says:
It will be a major hit, the masses are asses.
Maddyboy says:
She's dreadfully unoriginal.
fakeplastiktree says:
Don't her boobs look fake in that picture even though we were just hearing yesterday how she loves being flat?
Kiki says:
I really hate when people say her album is going to suck because of her personality. She may not be the brightest bulb in the box, but she's never really put on a public performance before so we don't know how she sounds. Everything is based on how we don't like her attitude, but her voice has nothing to do with how she acts. Either she's talented or not.
Alexa says:
She should stick to what she knows best-sex videos.
It's not Paris who creeps me out, it's her fans.
d.c. says:
It's not sleezy enough for the perv's to like it.. NOBODY would want to be caught owning stuff that trash girl sells! It would be a good gag-gotcha putdown gift for a enemy.. but.. first you'd have to buy it.
gawky says:
She and Kevin Federline should do a duet, how craptastically awesome would that be?
Just because you can carry a tune doesn't mean you have any talent. It just means you're not tone deaf.
(and yeah, those boobs are photoshopped off the map.)
Cynthia says:
Wow! This must really be something to hear! Fake baby voice singing pop music? If it takes buttloads of money to make your voice and/or music to sound good, then maybe you really are not all that musically gifted. alexa is right--she should stick to porn.
Silasdog says:
"she deep-throated the microphone" I love that line (wish I thought of it). I'm thinking at least one song on her CD must be a remake of "Love to Love You Baby" by Donna Summer. The multiple orgasm sequence is right up her "alley".
las says:
Breathy singing voice = no range.
And does Hilton even know who Blondie is? I doubt it. Cuz she's, like, OLD. She's more'n thirty!
Little Mickey says:
I would LOOOVE to see Paris fall on her face, but I have to be honest. I heard a couple songs on the Internet and they weren't that bad.
There were even, dare I say, infectious.
parissucksliterally says:
The CD will sell- I agree with Lisa...sigh. As far as her boobs, I have small ones, but when I put my hands the way she has hers, mine look big too. She creates cleavage that way.
Face it people- she's not going anywhere. No matter how many of us hate her, more love her ugly flat ass.
Dez says:
They say that she will have to postpone any tours because of another herpes outbreak.
angie says:
I just pre-ordered her CD on amazon.com. It's great that Paris Hilton has produced a good album, she seems to succeed in everything she undertakes to do - in spite of people trying to bring her down to their level.
Paris Hilton's book was also on the bestseller list, and her product lines sell well.I admire a girl who knows what she wants and makes the effort to get it.
Unknown says:
Oh puhLEEZE! Paris gets what she wants because she can BUY what she wants, and her junk sells because of idiotic morons! There are many people out there, I am sure, who are way more talented than this ho, but they do not have loads of money and a famous last name to get what they want.
Vams says:
If songs of album looks like Screwed, a song she recorded few years ago. Her voice is really remasterized, i mean she can sing jaja.
paris Sucks ******* says:
paris is a bitch she cant fucking sing.. and anyone who buys her cd is just as stupid as her.. she is so ugly look at her pointy nose come on ppl
netty says:
Paul Oakenfold?? NOOOOO, he's the all time master mind of mixing and he hooked up with her? oh Paul that's 12 steps down, why???
And Paris deep throats anything that in her mouth!
Bruno says:
She has put on a performance. It was on Access Hollywood. She sounded really odd. Off key, it looked like a joke at first. But she was dead serious. She was singing at some industry party at Sundance I believe. People were clowning her.