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NEWS ABOUT: identity crisis

identity crisis stories: 2 news summaries
OPINION

 Jackson 
 Couldn't Face 
 Man in the Mirror 

He 'was most himself' when someone else

Jul 27, 09 11:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Jackson was always trying to be somebody else: he "was most himself when he was someone other than himself,” writes Hilton Als in the New York Review of Books. The need to redefine himself emerged in his thirst for fame that would let him “wrest from... More »

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art • pop music • artist • identity crisis • Michael Jackson • celebrity death

No Terrorists
at the Top
of the Pops

Pakistani pop ballad deeper than it sounds, Salon's Leonard says

Aug 15, 07 6:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - A certain Pakistani pop song would be piffle if it were a love song, but it's not: it's an anti-terrorist ballad, an emblem of a “society-wide identity crisis,”  and as such it has meaning, writes Salon’s Andrew Leonard. Eight pop idols recorded the “We Are... More »

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music • Pakistan • Red Mosque • terrorist • identity crisis

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