Some Days I am a Woman , Some Days I am a Man. Really Lorde?

So friends I am back from India! The war between India and Pakistan did not happen because after 4 days and immense parading weaponry by both sides ,Trump picked up the phone and stopped it! Yeah right..

Trump is as good a peace maker as he is a business man and yet this is the mythology we are expected to believe. One thing about being in India that got to me, was the amount of fake news. Is it worse than here? Well, there are many more TV channels as there are so many languages and social media is full of extremist nonsense from both sides. Imran Khan had been killed in prison , Amritsar has been badly bombed and so on. Not true.

We spent the afternoon of the war drills in an Irish bar. Well it was Happy Hour after all. No one seemed to be taking notice of anything but the news from the Western channels was concerned with what these nuclear armed powers might do. There is still a ceasefire. But nothing is really solved. Poor Kashmir.

Anyway, I got home to my shaved cat and vet’s bills that have would have paid for a stay in The Priory.

I couldn’t help but take the vet’s letter to me somewhat personally ( except for the anorexia bit obviously).

As the whole situation had been tense…my daughter was still in Kashmir when it was dodgy. My cat stopped eating as soon as I left, I found myself necessarily distracted by celebrity gossip. Why do we let people destroy themselves in front of us? I am not just talking about Ye (Kanye West). My daughter took great delight in playing his Hitler song all the time to annoy me. It doesn’t annoy me, it makes me sad.

I read a lot of about Katie Price’s surgeries which she seems to have every week and wondered why no one stops her. And how whether “body dysmorphia” is enough of an explanation for much of what is going on. (More to come…) But I became fascinated by Lorde.

Lorde

Firstly, I think she is amazing. She did an interview with Rolling Stone magazine as she has an album coming out. You may not know who Lorde is. She is an incredibly talented New Zealander who shot to fame at 15 with her record Royals in 2013. It was number one in America and it catapulted her to worldwide fame . David Bowie saw her as the future of music . The song that made her globally famous so young was about watching the bling and materialism of so much pop culture and rejecting it.

“I've never seen a diamond in the flesh

I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies

And I'm not proud of my address

In a torn-up town, no postcode envy

[Pre-Chorus]

But every song's like

Gold teeth, Grey Goose, trippin' in the bathroom

Bloodstains, ball gowns, trashin' the hotel room

We don't care, we're driving Cadillacs in our dreams

But everybody's like

Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece

Jet planes, islands, tigers on a gold leash

We don't care, we aren't caught up in your love affair

[Chorus]

And we'll never be royals (Royals)

It don't run in our blood

That kind of luxe just ain't for us

We crave a different kind of buzz”

Royals is offering a critique and professing an alienation from particularly hip hop’s obsession with wealth and luxury. She is searching for something more real. She then GOT the wealth and lifestyle she had felt detached from and moved to New York. All of this fame stuff happened to her so fast you can’t help but wonder how she coped. The whole growing up in the public eye thing is impossible for young women, however talented.