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'just go play more guitar'

Writer: Amanda RiddellAmanda Riddell

Look, if you've been paying attention, then you'd have grasped that the elite music culture that I grew up in is actually the reason that I'm this obsessive and full of all this angst and doomed romance. If you don't like my cartoons, that's fine, but they're not illegal. And don't tell me not to post the bloody karaokes or whatever: that's the shtick, and it's not like they're an intention. They're songs, and mostly not my own. - Like, if you want to psychoanalyse my songs, then let's do that, but maybe accept that I do covers, and that's like borrowing an emotion. It'd be like if you asked Barbara if she was sexually attracted to every scene partner that she's ever had in an opera. That's essentially what Chloe and I are. Barbie acts it out on the stage, but (to my knowledge) she's happily married IRL. It's seriously like I'm being punished for being too convincing. My enemies aren't grilled like this about their obsession with my voice or stalking my socials (which they do). - To be totally honest, I'm writing an opera atm. That's the focus. That's plenty. And if you want to threaten me with jail, do it to my face rather than via the media. I want an end to all this clandestine bullshit. Being constantly spied on irks me, but the fact that I'm not allowed to call them out without being labelled a criminal is insulting. Tory's gotta accept that I'm angry (for good reasons). Luxon too.


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For the ladies that consider themselves my friend: I'm getting real sick of writing letters that go unanswered, only to find out that you're reading them.


That's aimed at Chloe, Golriz and Barbara. Jane usually writes back. Well, I'm not that angry at Golriz, as we've only become FB friends recently, but I'm pretty damn pissed off at some of my other friends.

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Dec 20, 2024

Put it this way, relationships get real intense when you're working on a show. That doesn't mean that I expect to have sex.

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