Comments on: Fat jibes drove me to drugs http://alisonmoyet.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/fat-jibes-drove-me-to-drugs/ A View on the World By The Turn, Alison Moyet Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:13:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: alisonmoyet http://alisonmoyet.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/fat-jibes-drove-me-to-drugs/#comment-75 alisonmoyet Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:47:55 +0000 http://alisonmoyet.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/fat-jibes-drove-me-to-drugs/#comment-75 Hiya I think that we, the public are getting led....like my hens...one runs up the garden the other worries she is missing something and tries to get ahead, quite unsure why. People don't always know they want stuff..they are just drawn into believeing they should want it...and want happens. Cheap television, cheap stories, cheap values. I feel stupid stating anything so obvious like it was an original thought. Without doubt there is bile in society but does it need to be drawn out and celebrated. Does it have to become our defining characteristic. We are becoming inured to everything vile. I find myself understanding Mary Whitehouse better...and what a thing that is to say. Isn't it like what they say about sex. Remember what it is that could do it for you when you first discovered it. Another door is opened and there is no returning to an earlier innocence. The stimulation needed becomes more demanding. I don't mean to come over all mother mary, I can be as big a bastard as the next but I hate it in myself. I don't need to believe that we are all clean, I just want to believe we desire it.. we aspire to it and clean to me is being open handed..kind..wise. On another note...it is funny. I did an interview yesterday and someone mentioned this particular blog and i thought they were getting me. Does it make me feel bad for the kids at school, they asked, that were, how shall we say, a little overweight? They just don't want to see the point. This is not about fat...it is not about my personal stumbling block...it is about duplicity and a bullying media. I can see the interview now and it will be based on my fat hell...like everything i say is driven by self-pitying weight issues. Like we cannot empathise with another soul unless their gripe is identical to ours. Were we always so self-centred? ....and now to something self-centred... Yes, it does not pass me by that radio excludes 20 years of my recorded history from its airwaves. I am just beyond waving my fist at it. I am bored by my internal whine. I have concluded that it has to be enough that only I and an open few will see me. There is little that I can do to change that and in the grand scheme of things it matters little. We live...some of us make things...we die and those things die soon after. Who cares. What point is there in caring...it eats into our sleeping hours and makes a haze of a living day. Ha ha...I am talking bollocks...care has eaten into my sleeping hours which is why I am awake at an ungodly hour writing this.....but see back...I aspire to be clean. Hiya
I think that we, the public are getting led….like my hens…one runs up the garden the other worries she is missing something and tries to get ahead, quite unsure why. People don’t always know they want stuff..they are just drawn into believeing they should want it…and want happens. Cheap television, cheap stories, cheap values. I feel stupid stating anything so obvious like it was an original thought. Without doubt there is bile in society but does it need to be drawn out and celebrated. Does it have to become our defining characteristic. We are becoming inured to everything vile. I find myself understanding Mary Whitehouse better…and what a thing that is to say. Isn’t it like what they say about sex. Remember what it is that could do it for you when you first discovered it. Another door is opened and there is no returning to an earlier innocence. The stimulation needed becomes more demanding. I don’t mean to come over all mother mary, I can be as big a bastard as the next but I hate it in myself. I don’t need to believe that we are all clean, I just want to believe we desire it.. we aspire to it and clean to me is being open handed..kind..wise.
On another note…it is funny. I did an interview yesterday and someone mentioned this particular blog and i thought they were getting me. Does it make me feel bad for the kids at school, they asked, that were, how shall we say, a little overweight?
They just don’t want to see the point. This is not about fat…it is not about my personal stumbling block…it is about duplicity and a bullying media. I can see the interview now and it will be based on my fat hell…like everything i say is driven by self-pitying weight issues. Like we cannot empathise with another soul unless their gripe is identical to ours. Were we always so self-centred?
….and now to something self-centred…
Yes, it does not pass me by that radio excludes 20 years of my recorded history from its airwaves. I am just beyond waving my fist at it. I am bored by my internal whine. I have concluded that it has to be enough that only I and an open few will see me. There is little that I can do to change that and in the grand scheme of things it matters little. We live…some of us make things…we die and those things die soon after. Who cares. What point is there in caring…it eats into our sleeping hours and makes a haze of a living day.
Ha ha…I am talking bollocks…care has eaten into my sleeping hours which is why I am awake at an ungodly hour writing this…..but see back…I aspire to be clean.

]]> By: kitchenaglow http://alisonmoyet.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/fat-jibes-drove-me-to-drugs/#comment-74 kitchenaglow Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:08:55 +0000 http://alisonmoyet.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/fat-jibes-drove-me-to-drugs/#comment-74 Dear Alison ~ It always feels like a case of one-upmanship. It is good that you look beyond the contents of the article, working it in context with the author and with articles either preceding or following. There is a constant contradiction. The fact that these gossip rags sell and bollocky magazine interview shows rate sends a more worrying message - that the public does enjoy this stuff or else they wouldn't be reading or watching it. It is all very well to blame the reporters, but the miserable public, too, needs to examine its hard-centred and cruel self. I try get far removed from all of that and buy practical magazines, like cooking mags, but all the while knowing that when covering "exotic" recipes, they are often reducing another culture to stereotypes. Our blinders are just too strong, I suppose. We have been inculcated to be quite prejudiced towards anything even remotely different if only to vaunt ourselves. Or so it seems. Very tenuously related: I heard the replayed interview on the Big L (I should have liked to hear it first time around but the time difference being what it is - I live in NZ - made that difficult). When Reed wasn't playing tracks from THE TURN, he only played early-mid 80s stuff of yours...Not that there is anything wrong with that material - it's all fabulous. But what about "So Am I", "Yesterday's Flame", and your live version of "There Are Worse Things I Could Do"? All stellar vocals...Love to hear your point of view, though - clear, unique, and not at all vapid like so many other musical celebs. Dear Alison ~ It always feels like a case of one-upmanship. It is good that you look beyond the contents of the article, working it in context with the author and with articles either preceding or following. There is a constant contradiction. The fact that these gossip rags sell and bollocky magazine interview shows rate sends a more worrying message – that the public does enjoy this stuff or else they wouldn’t be reading or watching it. It is all very well to blame the reporters, but the miserable public, too, needs to examine its hard-centred and cruel self. I try get far removed from all of that and buy practical magazines, like cooking mags, but all the while knowing that when covering “exotic” recipes, they are often reducing another culture to stereotypes. Our blinders are just too strong, I suppose. We have been inculcated to be quite prejudiced towards anything even remotely different if only to vaunt ourselves. Or so it seems.

Very tenuously related: I heard the replayed interview on the Big L (I should have liked to hear it first time around but the time difference being what it is – I live in NZ – made that difficult). When Reed wasn’t playing tracks from THE TURN, he only played early-mid 80s stuff of yours…Not that there is anything wrong with that material – it’s all fabulous. But what about “So Am I”, “Yesterday’s Flame”, and your live version of “There Are Worse Things I Could Do”? All stellar vocals…Love to hear your point of view, though – clear, unique, and not at all vapid like so many other musical celebs.

]]> By: alroald http://alisonmoyet.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/fat-jibes-drove-me-to-drugs/#comment-73 alroald Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:25:04 +0000 http://alisonmoyet.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/fat-jibes-drove-me-to-drugs/#comment-73 Mmmh…I often think it's all getting like the Roman amphitheatre’s all over again. No one likes to be ridiculed including these so called reporters, so why would they report to us such cruel news? It says more about them personally than their victims. And they wonder why their kids are going around Happy-Slapping and posting on You-Tube. What does the future hold? Poor sods. Mmmh…I often think it’s all getting like the Roman amphitheatre’s all over again. No one likes to be ridiculed including these so called reporters, so why would they report to us such cruel news? It says more about them personally than their victims. And they wonder why their kids are going around Happy-Slapping and posting on You-Tube. What does the future hold? Poor sods.

]]> By: rustiallen http://alisonmoyet.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/fat-jibes-drove-me-to-drugs/#comment-72 rustiallen Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:08:29 +0000 http://alisonmoyet.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/fat-jibes-drove-me-to-drugs/#comment-72 sadly that's the state of the media now. here in the states we are bombarded with daily britney spears updates, and not just in the celebrity tabloid media but on supposed real news channels. it is getting rather appaulling to say the least. i mean they repported the other day about her trip to taco bell......they honestly believe that the collective we really want to see this crap. sadly that’s the state of the media now. here in the states we are bombarded with daily britney spears updates, and not just in the celebrity tabloid media but on supposed real news channels. it is getting rather appaulling to say the least. i mean they repported the other day about her trip to taco bell……they honestly believe that the collective we really want to see this crap.

]]> By: rttoronto http://alisonmoyet.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/fat-jibes-drove-me-to-drugs/#comment-71 rttoronto Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:03:08 +0000 http://alisonmoyet.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/fat-jibes-drove-me-to-drugs/#comment-71 Hi Alison, Just wanted to drop you a note and say how nice it was to hear "One More Time" and realize that infectious, gorgeous melodies have not been exhausted!! Seriously, it had been awhile... Solid album throughout, constant rotation at home...thanks much. Ricky in Toronto Hi Alison,

Just wanted to drop you a note and say how nice it was to hear “One More Time” and realize that infectious, gorgeous melodies have not been exhausted!!

Seriously, it had been awhile…

Solid album throughout, constant rotation at home…thanks much.

Ricky in Toronto

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