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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like I also have this instinct towards her and I think it comes down to two things.

1) Her schtick is very artificial. On purpose clearly, she has a very clear aesthetic and it isn't about natural genuine beauty it is about looking kind of doll like and creating replicas of time periods. I think in today's world that is seen as a little off putting.

2) She is a try hard. This one makes me feel bad. But I feel like she is like, the Christina Aquilera/Jessica Simpson to Taylor Swift's Britney Spears. The slightly lesser female celebrity pop star du jour that people take pleasure in cutting down. I don't think that metaphor totally works on a talent level because xtina is a way better singer than spears but in their heyday spears was WAY more famous and mainstream popular.

But intellectually I think it is really unfair to feel pained by her efforts to be THE female pop star. She is working hard and trying and that shouldn't be off putting. But seeing someone, particularly a woman, trying so hard to be something and not necessarily completely succeeding I think sets off some primitive feeling of repulsion in human social cues. And its compounded by the fact that she has this artificial schtick that just makes the try hard stand out more.

It is the feeling you get when a not quite perfect polished outsider girl is trying out for a cheer leading squad and not doing it quite right. Some swirl of sympathetic embarrassment that just makes you recoil in your core. But that is a cruel and unfair instinct and like I said I try to actually suppress it because she's just a hard working woman who is trying to build a career. And I love some of her songs.[/quote]

That was deep and you nailed it right on the head! Right down to that gut feelin that was deep and you nailed it right on the head! [/quote]

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