Loved the story about Lisa Scott-Lee holding the British record-buying public to ransom with her threat to quit pop forever if her new single didn't enter the top 10... It has that winning mixture of breathtaking self-delusion and jaw-dropping hubris that only the rich and (semi)-famous can ever truly hope to attain... Sadly, it looks as if her decision to go for the nuclear option has backfired spectacularly in this instance...
It reminds me a bit of when miserly tax-exile Tories like Buster Collins, Paul Daniels and Noel Edmunds threatened to leave the country if Labour ever got into power during the 80's... a promise invariably too good to be true... Wonder if Lisa will now stay true to her word? The smart money's on her performing a low-key u-turn six months down the line...
Watch out for other great promises cloaked as threats in the near future... Tony Blair threatening to resign if the press don't stop writing nasty things about him... Guy Ritchie saying he'll refuse to make another piss-poor mockney gangster flick unless the critics stop giving him such a hard time... Pete Doherty vowing to end it all in a speedball overdose if people didn't start to take Babyshambles seriously...
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To be fair, Phil Collins did leave the country after Blair won in '97.
That's true. Respect to Collins, the man of his word. All great artists must first experience exile.
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