Just watched Katie Price/Jordan doing 'I want to break free' - dressed as Freddie Mercury in the original. A woman who makes a living out of her car crash life and surgically enhanced body, role playing a gay man who pretended to be straight for most of his life, dressed as a woman in a sly nudge nudge wink wink message to the world... I think it is the best and most intelligent thing she has ever done. How much more Post Modern can anyone get? I loathe everything about her and her lifestyle choices, because let's face it, she chose every bit of it. She manipulates and controls, makes money by exploiting those who exploit her, she is a sad potty mouthed, trashy role model for millions of girls (of all ages, right up to the sad, divorced and disenfranchised bitter mid life crises sufferers) and yet somehow she brazenly walks through it all unscathed. Is she oblivious? Is she ignorant? Actually, I really don't care. She is as plastic as the Barbie dolls she resembles, as empty headed as a shop window mannequin (I imagine). But, in a way that possibly she doesn't even 'get' herself, she has transcended all taste and irony with this masterpiece. I may be totally wrong, and have misunderstood it all.. but just for a minute there I lost myself...
I think she gets herself/is very aware of herself as a marketable product. Very shrewd, not clever in the Einstein sort of way, of course, but nonetheless she has enough savvy to have made a very successful career out of nothing. I mean, there are loads of other girls out there with silicone boobs and hair extensions yet they can't carve out a lifestyle the way she has.
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