by smax on 18 Jan 2011 14:57
agreed........ it's a fairly easy equation that if you're in the public eye that 50% of people will dislike you and 50% will like you...... you're damned if you do and damned if you don't......
the telegraph piece is a hatchett job, sure. anyone who is quoted as quoting Flaubert (especially someone who was a popstar in the last century) will seem like a tosser....... but it was the harper interview which made me raise my eyebrows.... clearly it is a fluff piece:
"And why not look good when you're a famous rock star and his famous actress-producer-environmentalist-yogini wife? "We like fashion," Sting says, wrapped in a Rick Owens coat, while Styler wears an artfully ripped Balmain T-shirt and Yohji Yamamoto coat."
assuming anyone gives a flying fuck who designed the coat that he's wearing; was there anything palatable / nice in that article? If he wasn't a multi millionaire perhaps the comments about buying the US out of recession wouldn't be so thoughtless, but for a 'pop star' (which is what he was) who has previously lectured the world on compassion and caring for one's fellow man (etc) his comments do lend themselves to being critisised.. then again if he was giving an interview to TIME magazine he would have tempered his views and words accordingly.....everyone (gordo included) is capable of hypocrisy, jokes taken out of context, of being misunderstood etc etc etc... and everyone can expect to be called a tosser from time to time.
<---A photo of me with Stewart pointing at a photo of Stewart pointing at me.