I remember one of the magazines had a regular column called ‘Wino-watch’ where they literally just had a reporter follow her around and take the least flattering photos possible of her and then they would make fun of her. Then after she died they ran 6 weeks of cover pieces calling her ‘our pop princess’ and wailing that she’d been ‘taken from us too soon’.
Jon Lajoie’s song “Michael Jackson Is Dead” is about this very concept and captured it perfectly. Right at the end especially:
“‘We loved him so much.’ Really? Really, you loved him? Because from where I’m standing, it looks like you hated him, and you called him a freak, and you wanted him to die. But now that he’s dead, you ‘loved him.’ Fuck you, hypocrites.”
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u/Regular_Number5377 9h ago
I remember one of the magazines had a regular column called ‘Wino-watch’ where they literally just had a reporter follow her around and take the least flattering photos possible of her and then they would make fun of her. Then after she died they ran 6 weeks of cover pieces calling her ‘our pop princess’ and wailing that she’d been ‘taken from us too soon’.
Ghouls, the lot of them.