. Being a 'popstar' is one of those glamorous vocations that we all think of as a life of luxury; artistic satisfaction on one hand and glamorous red carpets on the other. Fans! Money! Adoration! The ability to sing and dance! Sure, we hear a lot that the hours are crap, and interference from the paparazzi can be a pain in the backside – but what a life! But if there's one thing we're learning from the recent spate of popstar documentaries – the latest Selena Gomez: My Mind And Me – it's that being famous (especially being a famous woman) looks absolutely bloody horrible. Immense scrutiny, huge pressure, the tedium of a promo cycle, outright nasty photographers everywhere you go… who'd want it? The new film, streaming on AppleTV+, shows the 30-year-old navigating a high-stakes world tour (2016's Revival Tour) and, several years later, the release of a new album (2020's Rare) – dealing with anxiety, depression, lupus, a new diagnosis of bipolar disorder, and somewhere in the middle of all that, a kidney transplant. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video As the title suggests, it's the mental side of Selena's health that is the main subject: things like her love life are only really alluded to when we hear paparazzi yelling Justin Bieber's name at her, and certain career moments like the controversial 13 Reasons Why (which she co-exec produced) and the acclaimed Only Murders In The Building (in whic){kind=link}
NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Let’s be honest: when we were kids, we all imagined being part of something like the Spice Girls, or Steps, or S Club 7, right?
Maybe even, in our weaker moments, Hear’Say.
We’ve all at some point put a straw behind our ears and pretended it’s a Britney-esque head mic; whether it was back when we were barely 10 years old or last weekend at G-A-Y.
We’ve all taken ages in the shower because we got carried away imagining the funny anecdotes we’d tell on The Graham Norton Show (or maybe that one’s just me).