Grace Jones outlined plans to release her memoirs earlier this year, tastefully titled I'll Never Write My Memoirs.
Out soon, Time Out (via Pitchfork) is publishing a number of extracts – and it looks fantastic. The excerpt opens with Grace Jones saying she "never comfortable in the middle of the stream, flowing in the same direction as everyone else" and that her instinct is "to resist the pull of the obvious".
Seemingly labels have attempted to push her in the direction adopted by other major pop stars: "Trends come along and people say, ‘Follow that trend’. There’s a lot of that around at the moment: ‘Be like Sasha Fierce. Be like Miley Cyrus. Be like Rihanna. Be like Lady Gaga. Be like Rita Ora and Sia. Be like Madonna.’ I cannot be like them – except to the extent that they are already being like me."
Grace Jones also said that "the Nicki Minajes and Mileys" of the pop world have "no long-term vision" before adding:
"…They forget that once you get into that whirlpool then you have to fight the system that solidifies around you in order to keep being the outsider you claim you represent. There will always be a replacement coming along very soon—a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven’t got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday’s event."
"They dress up as though they are challenging the status quo, but by now, wearing those clothes, pulling those faces, revealing those tattoos and breasts, singing to those fractured, spastic, melting beats – that is the status quo. You are not off the beaten track, pushing through the thorny undergrowth, finding treasure no one has come across before. You are in the middle of the road."
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