Longevity
Usually, the pop icon status of a celebrity is contingent upon longevity of notoriety. This is in contrast to cult icons, whose notoriety or recognition may be limited to a specific subculture. Some pop icons have left a lasting and indelible mark in the area of their career, and then gone on to attain a lasting place of recognition in society at large.
An example is MC Hammer having early success as a hip hop artist (rapper, dancer, choreographer and entertainer), yet then becoming less famous in the pop/dance music genres, although still being extremely well known while making an impact in other professional fields during his later years (preaching, commercials, acting and social media).
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Famous quotes containing the word longevity:
“Every thing teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)