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Are your favourite musicians lying to you?

Decoding the PR spin of the pop star, one fabricated press release at a time Modern Toss on understanding what pop stars really mean

The pop landscape has been dug up and re-turfed so many times it’s basically a golf course. In 2019, no one buys CDs, no one does interviews, songs have to be streamed 15bn times to make roughly a tenner, there are no music TV shows, and artists can speak directly to their fans via social media, thereby forging a myth of honest communication. Gloriously, however, one aspect of the pop machine has not

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