![]() For reasons that aren't entirely clear, people have recently shown a marked tendency to get all how-dare-they? when an artist is revealed to be pretending to be something they're patently not, as if they think pop music should be covered under the Trade Descriptions Act. In the age of social media, it doesn't work: however long you spend cultivating an intriguing persona, someone is guaranteed to swiftly pop up gleefully brandishing the mundane truth about you. Audiences didn't ask too many searching questions a certain mystique was self-evidently part of the fun. For years, it was taken as read that pop music was a kind of theatre of dreams in which people could reinvent themselves. ![]() I t increasingly feels as if trying to nurture an atmosphere of mystery in pop isn't worth the bother.
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