a fight for the soul of poptimism...

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...has broken out on this thread. Since I am now using 'poptimist' with scare quotes, it may be possible that I am about to publicly 'break' with 'the' 'movement'. :-)

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Surely...

[(Anonymous)]

...it was to be expected that Paris's pop career would be treated with suspicion – she's hardly had a tougher ride than similar wouldbe singers like Naomi Campbell or Catharine Zeta-Jones or Princess Stephanie of Monaco or Andrew Cole. And, while the Lex may be baffled by this, lots of people find skinny, spoilt, rich, weirdly blank people kind of repulsive. I thought Stars Are Blind was fine until I saw that grotesque video. – Mark M