Of course, I took a closer look and, caffeine kicking in & curiosity piqued, I jumped over to the ever-reliable PerezHilton. Indeed, the girl has seriously gone around the bend and now resembles a startled, slightly-fuzzy billiard ball. Yeah, screams for help and all that. When you're a 20-something bazillionaire who didn't have a "normal" (and what IS that, anyway?) childhood and was thrust head-first into scrutinized pop-stardom adulthood, I think it makes you a little screwy.
I've never been a fan of her music; I did see a drag queen at a local club perform to "I'm a Slave 4 U" and I actually kinda dug that whole slick, sleek pop-ish, sexy and really quite hot (yes, yes, I REALLY want to be a drag queen, most people know this about me....) metaphor, but other than that, not really a fan of her flavor of over-produced musical bubblegum.
She's been acting out for a while, but this is pathetic. It's a nervous breakdown made public; it's also too bad she spawned kids at such a young age when it's obvious she's so NOT emotionally developed herself. She's sort of going through all the bizarre acting-out teenaged stages she missed by being in the biz and, as the theory goes, you must go through all stages in life--at some point--to grow up. For some people, they just come later....
Apparently depression and alcoholism run in her family, so I hope her ass lands in recovery (or there's an intervention on her behalf); if she's serious about it, it'll be here in MN at Hazelden, NOT some swanky "recovery" center in the Bahamas. Please.
Speaking of over-produced musical bubblegum, I Net Flix'd "Phantom of the Paradise" and I highly recommend it. It came out in '74, is horribly dated and terribly over-the-top, but it's GREAT! It's a tongue-in-cheek rock musical/fable with one of the (seriously) best scores ever, written by the bizarre but extraordinarily talented Paul Williams, who is the WEIRDEST little shag-haired, strawberry-blond aviator-glasses-wearing chipmunk-cheeked squeaky munchkin-like dude in the world of entertainment. But he penned such Carpenters faves as "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainy Days and Mondays," and he wrote all the songs for the Muppet Movie, my fave being "The Rainbow Connection" (ah, Kermie!). And he's done many others. Lots of talent in a strange package.
Anyway, this flick is a kick, with touches of "Phantom of the Opera," "Faust" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray," not to mention overtones of pulpy, kinky 70's porn. I'm SO ordering the soundtrack. Oh, and I'm pilfering my brother's original poster to frame & hang right next to "Hedwig!"
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