Babies Babies Babies

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Female long distance runners see having babies as a tactical advantage - the body's chemistry changes to give higher pain thresholds, endurance and so on. But could the same ever be true for female pop stars? Physical, all-singing, all-dancing performers who rely on presenting a 'perfect' body image such as Madge, Xtina (and yes, Britney) are obviously going to have their performance temporarily affected to a higher degree than lasses who are less active on stage - what about the emotional aspect? Do new pop parents (male or female) lose their bite and start exclusively singing soppy songs about their little Pixie Snowdrop? Perhaps, what doesn't kill them makes them stronger - I would fully expect Beyoncé to up her already ferocious lioness levels - or is this theory a pram full of idle speculation? Gwen Stefani happily dropped her sprog and carried on more or less the same as before.

In any case, it'll be interesting to monitor the Spice Girls' reunion tour...

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I fear for Xtina to be honest. She does not strike me as the type of girl who will be able to resist soppy baby balladry.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Is it true that J-Lo is having twins?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

omg I forgot she was meant to be pregnant! I don't know! But hang on her new single is being promoted as normal (and it's ACE)...

[redcommieapples.livejournal.com]

well her new video does have her saving kids from clubs, which is a complete reversal from "get right" which had bring a kid to the club.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is an excellent qn but I don't really know how to answer it - I don't THINK people lose their bite except inasmuch as most people making pop music seem to lose some edge as their career progresses anyway (the reasons for which are wider than parenthood obv).

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Madonna don't have no perfect body - it's all muscley 'n' sh!t.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Well what do you think of Ellis-Bextor's latest opus? That was post-baby.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

'i love it when you crawl'

[celentari.livejournal.com]

My mum's lairy feminist friend from college says it's not a placenta that falls out after the kid, it's your brains.

[koganbot]

Also the fact that you're tired for a minimum of the next 18 years (unless you hire people to take care of the children, which I guess if you're a pop star you do).