4. Selena Gomez
There was once a time when Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande, and Victoria Justice all had shows on either Nickelodeon or The Disney Channel within a couple years of each other. Is it any real surprise that the admiring 13-year-old girls and hormone-infused 17-year-old boys of those days have made these women such big stars? History, however, tells us that the odds of all five of these ladies having huge careers was very unlikely.
Cyrus would have already been in Playboy 12 times over if it were still pro-nude, Lovato wouldn’t do it because of her stance on the media and body issues, Justice is trying to build a legitimate acting career (though did appear in her bra through most of The Rocky Horror Picture Show remake on Fox), which brings us to Ariana Grande, who you’ll find elsewhere on this list, and Selena Gomez. She’s had a few Top 10 songs, but like 95 percent of Britney Spears’ catalog, they’re completely forgettable.
This is true about the acting career of Gomez since she’s only had a few roles in independent and mainstream films, and they have all received mixed reviews. The public is going to need more to stay interested in Gomez for much longer. She would have refused Playboy at least twice by now if this were the ’90s, but it would have at least been a safety net she could have counted on and one we’d like to have seen her land in.
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