Dear All Pop Stars,
I love music, I love old music, I love new music I love
music I’m too embarrassed to let Spotify post on my Facebook status (we all know
that feeling).
I also love it when
my role models and idols make me smile and remember they are more than a sex
object, more than a marketing gimmick, but are human beings with a beautiful
talent that we all want to experience and share.
I don’t expect my role models to be perfect or for them to
put on an artificial butter wouldn’t melt in their hot and talented mouths
persona, I don’t even expect them to always make the right decision (lets be
fair we all don’t go through a day without making at least one mistake), but I
hope that if you make a career out of being so important in all our lives that
you try to bring your special sparkle and glitter into our world its much more
fun than all this old fashioned sexism.
I know that controversy can sell and we all have to make a
living, but if I love your voice, your music videos, your dance moves and your
personality I’m still going to want to buy your MP3 from itunes and make you
the sound track of my day I promise and I know I’ll want to recommend you to my
friends too especially when they are round for that bottle of Rose on a Friday
night.
I know that growing up no one thinks “I want to be a bad
influence on others” or even be part of the nightmare that pulls other people’s
lives apart. That’s why I want less blurred lines in the world and more girl
power hitting our airwaves as the former makes little angels cry and the latter
will make you the pop goddess and gods we all know you are.
As people we naturally want to be ourselves so instead of
letting your marketing manager or band of digital image consultants want to
twist and hide the real you, behind a fantasy stardom template air brushed and
behind a personality that even your mum would struggle to see you through. Let
the real star glowing inside you out, the body that holds your talented voice
and dazzling dance moves (I promise you that alone makes it beautiful) be
centre stage . Let your personality out through the clothes you want to wear
and lifestyle you want to lead instead of someone else’s story shaped by an
agent design to attract controversy instead of selling the you that you want
the world to see.
Remember that before you were a pop star, rock star or even
a TV star that you always had a star inside you the star dust that makes us
all. You don’t need someone to shape you to be a star you just have to look
inside yourself and let out the star dust you have had all along.
Keep dancing, keep singing and keep bringing glitter and
magic into our lives.
Yours Faithfully
Tara Hewitt