Popularity Does Not Equal Talent, Despite What the 'Idols' May Say

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FLIPPING through the back pages of glossy magazines is always illuminating for the contrast it provides with the front end, which hard sells an aspirational lifestyle.

The front is replete with expensively produced adverts tempting us with the accoutrements of upwardly mobile fantasy: mortgage- necessitating handbags, purring autos, watches with more carats than a starlet's engagement ring and fragrances promising non-stop sexual ecstasy.

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Popularity Does Not Equal Talent, Despite What the 'Idols' May Say

But the other end reminds me of the kind of misguided girl who spends so much time organising her fringe that she forgets to comb the back of her head. Reading the magazine in reverse you see the wo...

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