How to hire a pop star for your private party

> Even geniuses have had to navigate a certain servitude to their sponsors.

Some years ago, a friend was a performer in one of the myriad shows at one of those insane $100 million weddings. Our film industry's G.O.A.T. superstar was the emcee. Redefined cinema for generations, absolutely revered by the public. My friend recounted pretty much this impression of the status and treatment meted out to that person...

> Mozart fumed about the Archbishop of Salzburg, who “treats me like a street urchin and tells me to my face to clear out, adding that he can get hundreds to serve him better than I.”

The world must look very different when you know you can wake up one fine morning and decide which way you want to drive a small country's economy, while you relieve yourself or sip your morning cuppa.

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I have no idea what the details of those performance bookings were, but I always assumed that plenty of money changed hands to make it happen.

Expensive noise!

Was that a Scott Pilgrim quote? :)

What’s interesting is that there is a market for artists today even though their hits were from previous generations: the new aristocracy were once high schoolers and are now are adults looking for unique experiences.

Seemed to catch the wave of "side hustle" popularity at the right time. Many people with jobs have a wandering eye as it is, and athletes/etc often have enough of an audience to leverage.