What's all the fuss about Prince William splitting up with Kate Middleton? It's not like they were even close to marriage. Not that I've got the inside track on their relationship, but they're way too young. I didn't get married until I was over 30, and no one should even consider it until then.
We all know that in today's climate, it's the papers hungry for news that propels these things along, and things like the ghastly heat magazine, that look for any crack or newsworthy blip in a relationship and then like a dog with a bone won't let go until they couple in question buckle under the pressure.
I notice Victoria Newton in The Sun has got it in for Joss Stone, just dying for her to have a breakdown, and who misses no opportunity to stick the knife in about unpopular/crap/bad singer/full of herself/exhausted she is. What is Joss Stone - 21 or something? She won't be able to go on much longer with this sort of attention, if, that is, she takes it seriously.
Then again, looking at the likes of Lily Allen. I've not read much negative press about her, but it's coming. But that's what happens when you become famous in this day and age. It's so immediate it's hard to cope.
Gone are the days of paying your dues on the pub circuit. These days it's a MySpace page, a number one single a couple of weeks later and mass adulation. But when that's followed by having to do some real work, like promotion and tours, they can't handle it because they don't know what hard work is. She's been smoking weed with her pals and been in and out of nightclubs since her early teens. I bet she's never had to work. Today's artists are not hungry enough. Everything's expected on a plate, which is the trouble with kids in general.
So on the one hand there's sympathy, but on the other, it's their own fault. I do hope Gordon Brown is right when he says we've fallen out of love with celebrity. Like all bubbles it will burst, the only question is, when?
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Problem is, music is kinda up shit creek in a lace canoe. Ver kids aren't buying music the way we used to, ie obsessively, so the only selling point is The Next Big Thing, and even then, the music is almost secondary to the lifestyle stuff peddled by celeb mags and tabloids - weight, dating, drug ingestion.
I too hope lovely Gordy is right, but how do you make politics and social responsiblity the new rock and roll?
I spent the weekend listening to Provision by Scritti Politti and Aztec Camera's Stray; both albums around 15 years old but with a staying power. Shall we still be listening to Alfie by Lily Allen in 2022?
To me Alfie reminds me of Puppet On A String. Nothing wrong with Sandie Shaw of course, but it's hardly The Queen Is Dead, is it?
I've always thought of Lilly Allen as having one of those secondary pop careers comediennes and actresses used to dally with before getting back to their day jobs. Except, in her case, without the day job. All this veneration she's attracted baffles me no end. Her songs are OK, just like Tracy Ullman's stuff was OK, but I just think... what else do you do, dear?
Alfie IS Puppet on a String. I quite like it, as a bit of pop fluff.
Ddin't Gordon make a remark at the last Labour conference saying he knew more about the Arctic Monkeys than the Arctic melting? Or have I got that completely wrapped around my neck?
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