
E! Online wrote an article asking fans whether Rob is the biggest pop icon of a generation.
Let's put it this way: When I floated your suggestion past a historian who specializes in this sort of thing, he had to fight the urge to laugh. (Further evidence against your theory: I myself cackled freely, and the professor didn't try to stop me.)
"He doesn't even come close," says cultural critic Paul Levinson, professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University.