Grim1316 t1_irw6g3b wrote on October 11, 2022 at 2:30 PM

Reply to comment by LikeEpisodeVIThemost in TIL Bing Crosby, called the first multimedia star, recorded over 1600 songs and 70 feature films by PicardTangoAlpha

I think you misunderstand the important world here, Media. He was very likely the first, or at least the first to make it popular to be both a famous recording musician as well as also be a famous film star. Meaning his work was on some sort of media, Film and Records. That would not be the case with play actors who are even now not commonly record on either media.

LikeEpisodeVIThemost t1_irw6qnk wrote on October 11, 2022 at 2:32 PM

I just think it willfully ignores media that came before. Books, paintings, poetry, songwriting etc etc all existed before and are considered media. Yeah he probably did a lot for films and music but he's not the first.

Grim1316 t1_irw7zok wrote on October 11, 2022 at 2:41 PM

Kinda moving the bar's here since you just said musicians and play actors. Since you brought it up and in continued fairness, most of those cases the average person would have little to no idea or access to all forms of media that any person created. It isn't until true mass media that you see household names become increasingly more common.