Quick pop culture quiz - do you know this person?

[pdq]

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Okay, do you know this person?



I know, I know, this is a too-frequently done thing, and I'm not trying to make any statement here (she's pretty enough without everything), but seeing the top photo above today online in a Taylor Swift story just brought home to me that performers have to have this public glam image (in addition to talent), and it must just take a ton of work and time and commitment.

That's all.

[NewtonMP2100]

....yes.......she appeared as a 'man' in her just released video.....

[rjmacs]

pdq wrote:
...performers have to have this public glam image (in addition to talent), and it must just take a ton of work and time and commitment....

That's all.

Well, only if they want to cultivate the kind of image and persona that TS did... Thankfully, only a very select elite group of superstar performers actually maintain this level of aesthetic artifice!

I would hate to see, for example, Amanda Fucking Palmer (below) looking like a Mattel Erotic Girl doll (sorry, TS, your look does nothing for me), for an interview or appearance. Provocative outfits on stage, sure - that's part of performing/pretending. But to have to do it 24/7, whenever in public? Blech.

[vision63]

rjmacs wrote:

(sorry, TS, your look does nothing for me)

This isn't the rjmacs I know.

[pRICE cUBE]

I knew it was Taylor swift because she has done a music video without makeup before. https://youtu.be/RzhAS_GnJIc

[S. Pupp]

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[vision63]

S. Pupp wrote:
Never mind.
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Dang. I enjoyed that.

[jdc]

FWIW, your second photo is from 9 years ago.

Not even 2020 TS looks like 2011 TS (just like everyone else here =)

first photo About 2 weeks ago, second one recent promo photo:

[vision63]

Tay

[pRICE cUBE]

vision63 wrote:
Tay