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Never mind "talent" -- don't you need "accomplishments," too?
She had two smash-hit albums with a handful of hit singles. The third album had somewhat lower sales. The fourth album tried to reach out to an older audience, with even less commercial success.
Am I talking about Britney Spears or Debbie Gibson?
Now, Debbie Gibson wrote her own material, choreographed her dancers' routines, switched to "Deborah" and ended up with a nice little stage career, including two minor stints on Broadway.
Britney has one feature film (a relative flop), had a few Pepsi commercials, and is sitting squarely on that "What do I do _now?" career-path decision. In America, just being a celebrity is sort of a career of its own, but if you stop producing anything substantial... well... the top row on "Hollywood Squares" starts to beckon. Or porn. Whichever.
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