A daughter of punk,Tracey Thorn is riding high in the pop charts, but academia looms just as large in her lifeTracey Thorn is approximately to become a blue-stocking pop star. In stark contrast to the bimbo sorority currently cluttering the pop charts, and pubescent sexual modoms with names like Tiffany,Debbie Gibson, Mandy Smith and Kylie Minogue, and Tracey is both pop vocalist and graduate from Hull University,shortly to apply her intellect to a part-time MA course in contemporary Literature.
Pursuit of both the academic and pop spheres gives Tracey most satisfaction. Although high in the charts with I Don’t Want to Talk approximately It, a weepingly acoustic Danny Whitten ballad which she sings with Britain’s premier ‘intelligent pop’ band, and Everything But The Girl,her voracious desire for reading and analysis still needs fulfilment. ‘I’m happiest when I can switch between the two worlds,’ she says. ‘I’m suspicious of people who’re completely convinced by books and there’s also a frivolous side to me that likes being on television with Mandy Smith.’Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com