We’ve been so used to/conned by female singers who are AMBITION-LED rather than TALENT-DRIVEN that we seem to have forgotten how truly gifted singers historically behave.
Edith Piaf, Judy Garland, Billie Holiday – for some reason women who have a great talent for singing also have a great capacity for reckless behaviour.
Whereas if your talent is an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny sickly little thing – see Madonna – then you have to behave the very opposite of recklessly in order to preserve it. Like going to the gym for three hours a day.
