But the unvarnished "Rose Ave ." released this week on RCA Records, represents an undeniable shift from Pink's established persona — and, she says, a welcome opportunity to dial back the celebrity machine that keeps her stardom running.
Increasingly prepared to undermine established persona as he got older.
As proof of their eerily convincing appearance, they have established personas of their own and are able to migrate from one medium to another, building virtual careers much like flesh-and-blood beauties.
This unscientific roundup of Top 40 artists' wildest movie appearances spotlights luminaries whose roles complemented or subverted their established personas.
One of the things I'm waiting to see when the final 1Q2010 FDIC numbers come out next month is to what degree these combinations of established personae and quantitative performances do or do not affect the movement of deposits.
That it's Khan who's fighting for change makes this doubly special: we're watching modern cinema's most rapid and radical modification – mollification, even – of an established star persona.
In only a few movies, Rogen has established a persona — the underachiever, the slob loser, but a guy who is articulate, and slightly self-disgusted, and who finally pulls himself together.
Everyone else isn't given much of a chance to establish a persona beyond platitudes, at least not in the premiere, and so viewers have no way to develop a rooting interest unless they were fans of one star or another going in.
More crucially for an R&B artist at this stage in her career it establishes a persona and a set of coordinates, roughly at the point of intersection between self-effacement and self-empowerment.
Fleming plays on Fairbanks's established athletic persona (in "Clouds" he's a hypochondriac, in "Mollycoddle" a milksop) the way he toyed with Jack Haley's smoothness as the Tin Man and Ray Bolger's rubber legs as the Scarecrow.
She captures, exactly, what it's like to start high school, to stride into the auditorium wearing a "daisy-spattered dress, scanning for the right place to sit," while jockeying with schoolmates to establish a persona and a self.
