Paris Hilton's 'Stars Are Blind' At 15: BlackBerrys, Mythic Love, And Promising Young Woman

“When people come up to me and say what an iconic song it is, it makes me incredibly happy.” Her musical foray couldn’t have arrived at a more pivotal point in her career; after releasing her first book Confessions of an Heiress, starring in slasher flick House of Wax, and ushering in a new era of star-powered reality TV with The Simple Life, she had already built the blueprint for what would become her fempire.Still, as producer Fernando Garibay, who co-wrote and produced “Stars Are Blind,” told MTV News, there was a lot that the world didn’t understand about Hilton in the early aughts. “It was like watching a real-time documentary,” Garibay said; it was “a quintessential example” of what an entrepreneur in the entertainment sphere looked like.Though she’s now solidified her status as a businesswoman and has since taken control of her story with recent documentary This Is Paris, Hilton’s music career was one of the heiress’s first opportunities to write her own narrative outside of the tabloids. Fennell told Entertainment Weekly that she wrote the track into the script before getting Paris’s permission because, aside from being one of her favorites, it was the type of song that “if a boy that you liked knew every word to, you’d be incredibly impressed, and you’d know he had good taste.” Hilton gave the filmmaker her blessing and said she was “so proud” of Fennell and the film’s “really important message.” “So many people called me after watching it and everyone loved seeing the song featured in it,” she said.After the success of “Stars Are Blind,” Garibay went on to produce tracks for artists like Nicki Minaj, Shakira, and Tiffany Young, as well as Lady Gaga’s massive Born This Way album. Mother Monster herself is even a noted fan of the song, and Paris recalled she “will never forget when Lady Gaga said it was one of the best records ever.” Though Garibay helped shape a number of hits, his work with Hilton still stands out among the rest.