Perfect blue

Teen-sensations-turned-adult-starlets crop up even more often these days, thanks in large part to teen-content-machines Disney and Nickelodeon. As a result, identity crisis has seemingly crept into these hard-working young women’s contracts as they’re forced to switch between singing and acting or Christian-audience innocence and sex appeal. There exists a third job for them: herding the public eye to become accepting of the new adult careers they’ve trailblazed for themselves. Though equally applied to today’s Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, or Lindsay Lohan, Perfect Blue investigated the horrors of this celebrity identity crisis, both personal and public, through a lens as chilling as Hitchcock’s, though as free as animation can allow.