The Official 'Head First Era Goldfrapp Is Sh*t' Thread

[Baudelaire]

Originally Posted by corvina

I think what B&G is saying is that in the past through songs like Utopia and Clowns she's made it clear that she thinks people who mess with their appearence for fashionable purposes are operating under if not delusion then a dodgy mindset... in Utopia she refers to the fascism of conformity and of adherence to a social norm and/or idea of perfection.

if this is the case which it clearly is since those songs exist and we can hear them .. if she then goes and allows her images to be photoshoped and messed around with so as to appear to conform to a socailly accepted norm i'e beauty is age related and diminshes as one gets older .. then she is in some sense guilty of doing the same ..

although smart girl that she is I'm certain she is aware of the contradiction she is throwing out ... we know she's vain because she said so circa SN

but life is like this we have to live with our private ambivalences ..

I think in the end though we all follow social norms, regardless if we don't agree with it.

I also think there's a big difference between retouching photos and plastic surgery. In one sense yes they're both conformity, the later has a lot more consequences though.

I personally don't agree on plastic surgery either (for similar reasons), even though I'm very insecure with myself -- and I definitely retouch my photos. Sometimes I even find myself considering plastic surgery too. I just don't see how it's the basis of thinking someone is in-genuine, aren't there worse hypocrites in the world?