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Where you read it first | Friday, April 26, 2024

Top Ten | People We'd Like to Wake Up As

With the huge popularity of Ke$ha's "Tik Tok," which begins with the premise of "[waking] up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy," we got to thinking about who we'd want to be if we could wake up as that person. Because really, P. Diddy? We can do better than that…

10. Bono: You wake up every morning as the frontman to the most successful Irish rock band ever. And then you run charities that save the children and the whales and the puppies. You're basically the most self-fulfilled person ever.

9. Lois Lane: There's nothing like knowing you can go out, write a scathing exposé, get held up at gunpoint, get thrown off a building or two and still make it home alive, thanks to your super-powered boyfriend.

8. Tina Fey: You rise and shine to your seven Emmys, three Golden Globes and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. You're a staple of the NBC comedy lineup, and you do the best Sarah Palin impression that anyone has ever seen. Blerg! We wish we were you.

7. Popeye on spinach: With those hugely disproportionate forearms, opening jam jars would never be a problem.


6. A sea lion: You spend your morning fishing, and then you lie on the beach and sun yourself. If you get bored, you go bodysurfing, using your blubber for buoyancy. If you get cold, you spoon with other cuddly sea lions. And did we mention how amazingly cute you are? Yup, being a sea lion is pretty kickass.

5. Justin Bieber: Ah, the freedom of living on the brink of puberty and at the pinnacle of heartthrob-dom. Plus, that helmet hair is kind of magnificent.

4. Megan Fox: Your only activity? Staring at yourself in the mirror all day. Sweet.


3. Neo: You know kung fu.

2. Nicholas Sparks: Waking up as Nicholas Sparks would mean we'd have the highest self-confidence ever (read: most unstoppable ego ever). "Faulkner, Hemingway? Who are those chumps? And ‘Catcher in the Rye' (1951) has nothing on ‘A Walk to Remember' (1999). I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD!" Oh wait, that's "Titanic" (1997). Romantic rubbish.

1. Ke$ha: Lady Gaga may not approve, but who doesn't want to wake up with a $ sign in their name? ART$! ART$! ART$!