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...chameleonic, though the individual songs were less mercurial, favoring instead a more concise approach to song-writing. Or maybe the songs just happened to not be in the same key this time around so they couldn’t be compressed into the ramshackle epics they mastered on Liquid Skin, Ian Ball, one of Gomez’s three lead singers, suggested in an interview last Thursday...
...anarchy is perhaps the closest thing Gomez have to a “signature sound.” They have always self-produced their albums, a fact which Gray says has contributed to their independence of record company whims and standards. Rumor has it that the sessions for Liquid Skin saw them singing through toilet rolls as well as underwater, while the album take of “Get Miles” is the second time they ever attempted the song, after the first take had to be abandoned when a microphone fell off the barrel where it had been...
Luckily it wasn’t all incontinent fluffy bunnies. Certainly, being a Vogue staffer had its perks. My first fashion event was a major skin care launch held at the penthouse suite of one of Sydney’s most exclusive hotels. I was sent to gather enough information to write a newsy puff-piece and to take photos for the social pages, but my secret agenda was to gather as many freebies as possible. But first I had to endure a seemingly endless babble of pseudo-science from PR representatives wearing faux lab coats. This was a none...
...press liaison officer with a face so caked in makeup that it remained stiff even when she smiled offered to perform a skin care consultation on me using a “patented” magnifying camera. She claimed this device would accurately detect the “real” age of my skin. I politely declined. After all, every Aussie girl already knows that years of cavorting under the hole in the ozone layer have most likely given her skin an unattractive, leathery quality. Aside from this, there was something about the idea of identifying...
Undeterred, the PR representative informed me in earnest tones that this skin care line was so revolutionary that it had the potential to take five years off my appearance. Inspecting the assembled ensemble of toners, astringents and masques, I did the math. Did I really want to spend fifteen minutes a day applying all this gunk only to look fourteen again? Suddenly, all the angst and agony of my early teens came flooding back. Putting aside the nightmarish aesthetic trifecta of braces, pimples and school uniforms, there were also the socially horrific memories of gym class, trigonometry and that embarrassingly...