Getting your own Madame Tussauds wax figure is like a certificate cementing your icon status. The whole idea behind the Madame Tussauds museum is that people want to see figures they know and recognise, whether they be modern celebrities or historical figures.
To receive your own is to say you belong to the same club as Mahatma Gandhi, Barack Obama, Elvis Presley, Queen Elizabeth, and uh, Hitler. The point we’re trying to make here is that you have to be an icon in some respect, someone with an instantly recognisable visage.
Now, this may be less so thanks to the museum’s natural desire to stay relevant. Recent years have seen wax figures of more contemporary celebrities with very short careers make the cut, such as Cara Delevingne and Kendall Jenner.
Still, we must say we sort of had to scratch our heads when we heard that Australia’s own Cody Simpson recently had the veil on his very own Madame Tussauds wax work lifted in Orlando, Florida. Like, good for him and everything, but really?
As the Daily Mail reports, the 19-year-old Simpson, who rose to prominence thanks to songs he performed on YouTube, was at the unveiling ceremony on Friday and couldn’t be more stoked to have his very own wax doppelgänger sitting in the famous tourist attraction.
“When the wax you is cooler than the real you,” he wrote on Instagram. “This is an astounding honour and momentous event that has far surpassed anything I’d envisioned for myself growing up.”
Really, really creepy / Image: The Daily Mail
It’s a sweet sentiment and it’s great to see an Australian artist rise to such heights, particularly at such a young age, but is it just us or are there perhaps some other Australian musicians out there who are a tad more deserving?
Don’t get us wrong, Simpson may be green, but he’s certainly talented, and amazingly prolific for such a young gun. The 19-year-old already has three full-length albums under his belt and even owns his own record label, Coast House Records.
But if Madame Tussauds wanted to honour an Australian musician and remain relevant, they could’ve gone for something along the lines of AC/DC, Nick Cave, or Sia, no? After all, we doubt Simpson’s largely teen and pre-teen audience would be into seeing a creepy wax work anyway.
