She spends the summer with her childhood best friend, Gala, attending loft parties and mingling with artists and aristocrats. Happy Hour follows Isa, a 21-year-old mixed-race recent New York transplant who has come to the city in the pursuit of fun. “ who are in our midst, all the time… this poor little rich girl thing.” Poised in a pair of Fendi sandals and sipping a glass of water (even party girls sometimes have to be on their best behavior) she looks every bit the embodiment of the lifestyle we’re discussing. “I wanted to be like, ‘This could be a way that someone's just living right now,’” Granados says when we meet at the much-Instagrammed PUBLIC Hotel. Much like other real-life party girls whose stories don’t pepper the Post’s Page Six, she simply got by. While it wasn’t always the most stable lifestyle, nothing that bad ever happened to Granados. She appeared in music videos and commercials, dabbled in modeling, and relied on her charm in order to make ends meet. Soon, she was being flown to European locales like Zurich to attend the birthday parties of powerful men. Growing up in suburban Toronto with a single mom and little money, by her teen years she was using her ingenuity to pursue the high life. Granados, 29, had a “party girl phase” of her own. Then once she got free, she was punished.” “She had this authoritative situation that she tried to move out of because it was really holding her back. “That's a very classic party girl narrative, right?” Granados says of Princess Diana’s fate. It’s a trope that author Marlowe Granados, whose debut novel Happy Hour centers on a plucky wild child, is hellbent on rejecting. Dare to live an indulgent life, and you must pay. It would take the media a few more years (and many more nasty headlines) to fully chew them up and spit them out.įrom what became of the members of that “Bimbo Summit” to the fates of Peaches Geldof and Princess Diana, the party girl’s punishment is often severe. At the time, they were still at the height of their power: Spears was on the cusp of putting out her fifth studio album, Lohan was starring in prestige films like Prairie Home Companion, Hilton was on The Simple Life. The paparazzi and tabloids chronicled their every move, simultaneously deifying and crucifying them with each news item. That year, there was no more platonic ideal of a party girl than this holy trinity. On it, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Lindsay Lohan all ride shotgun after a night out the headline “Bimbo Summit” is emblazoned across them. There’s a 2006 New York Post cover that has become synonymous with early aughts celebrity culture.
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