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UK Student.
Steel City via Robin Hood County.
I mainly value the 6 F's Family, Friends, Fashion, Films, Fantastical Music and Fabulous Books.
Studying to create arts events, which is quite the oxymoron.
In the future, I'd like to be happy.
I currently am, despite various knocks.
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Paloma Faith (Paloma Faith Bloomfield) is an English singer, currently being named the new (or newer, I'm sure Adele was the new one) Amy Winehouse.
Paloma (as you may know if you caught her appearance on the first episode of the new 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks' series) is delightfully, with perfectly refined and unique personal style and a perfectly unrefined Hackney (London) accent. Supporting her oddities are a few facts from her official website:
She began singing in cabaret and burlesque clubs. Paloma once appeared as a live ghost on a ghost train ride at the funfair. When she was a magician’s assistant she would be sawed in half onstage. She once worked as an assistant in Agent Provocateur.
In addition to those weird and wonderful previous jobs, Paloma is also an actress - she played Andrea the Emo in the recent 'St Trinians' film and appears in the upcoming film 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus'.
Paloma is currently focusing on her music career, and doing pretty well; the release of her debut single, Stone Cold Sober, apparently had to be brought forward due to lots of radio airplay. He music is a mix of that big band, jazzy, swing-like sound that probably owes the Amy Winehouse comparisons but everything else - voice, style, humour and optimism - is very much Paloma.
Paloma's new single 'New York' and debut album 'Do You Want The Truth, Or Something Beautiful' are both out now.
I was terribly sad to wake up to the news that Boyzone member, Stephen Gately, passed away yesterday at the age of 33. Stephen was not only my favourite Boyzone member as he was talented and seemed a genuinely lovely guy, but he was also one of my very first crushes when I was 7 years old. 'No Matter What" was (and still is) my favourite Boyzone song, and feautured Stephen's vocals beautifully.
My thoughts go out to his partner, family and friends. RIP Stephen.
If you subscribe to the 'In the Closet' podcast from Men.Style.com you may recognise the face above as Josh Peskowitz. If not, that up there is Josh Peskowitz Fashion editor at Men.Style.com.
I recently unsubscribed to a lot of women's style podcasts because I found them boring - "This is what's in style, this is how you should wear it, next week we'll tell you what else is in style and how you should wear it". - One of the very few I didn't unsubscribe to was 'In the Closet' (also presented by Executive Editor Tyler Thoreson), other than the fact that I have a rather large crush on Josh, this was because they look like they have fun when they're talking about the clothes they like or what's in style - they make jokes, they laugh, they have a drink and say things like 'awesomeness' and 'dude'. Surely that's what fashion is about, having fun and expressing yourself.
To watch Tyler and Josh 'In The Closet', clickety click.
Today I watched your new video for 'Celebration' and it troubled me. I'm not one of those people who thinks that when a person gets to a certain age they should stop wearing certain clothes just because society says so, if you feel comfortable and look good then why not? I am, however, one of those people who thinks out of dignity one should shut their legs and stop waving their groin every-which-way in music videos - as a woman of a certain age, you should know better. We know, you like to court controversy, you like to push boundaries and you like to be different, but at this point your attempts reek of desperation and just lump you with all the other female pop stars that prance around in their underwear. This is not the confident, intelligent, headstrong and progressive woman we knew from previous years, what happened to her? Please take note from your previous videos that we don't need to see a person's crotch to consider them sexy (or in the majority of cases we don't need to see one's crotch at all).
Even in your 'Sex' book you didn't come across as so distastefully (and tackily) over sexed as you have in your most recent videos - you've become so trite. What happened to Madonna with something to say, a message - the Madonna who had powerful, political lyrics/videos (I don't want this one who hangs herself on crosses in her underwear, and says things along the lines of 'Stop being mean to people. Its not nice', on stage). Also, as a final thought, is that auto-tune I hear? Myself and your previous incarnations hang our heads in shame.
Yours Faithfully,
A previous fan.
PS: As a person who loved you an awful lot at one stage, I have to admit you lost me at that 'Music' album (although I do love 'What It Feels Like For a Girl).
