Oh my goodness, I have lipomas on my back - I never realised they are a fashion statement - I must show them off more!
I thought Harry Stiles was a footballer. 
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Donât mix him up with Nobby KaneâŚ
I must say, itâs incredibly disappointing that on a forum with a collective age probably in the millions, with people who claim to be music lovers and knowledgeable about âolden times pop cultureâ no one has bothered to mention the obvious inspiration for the outfit. Unfortunately Sam Smith doesnât have the artistic or aesthetic chops to pull something like this off, as much as they may try, but itâs clearly got the Bowie Kansai Yamamoto outfit as itâs core inspiration, then itâs just gimped and the shape exaggerated for comedy value.
Yet again though it shows it clearly worked as a PR strategy as here here we are, along with the entire world, discussing it. It served its purpose entirely, millions worth of publicity for the cost of one ugly outfit.
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Now her I do remember, along with Bobby and Jack RobsonâŚand err Flora and Green Robson.
Women will have disappeared from the arts, sports and all entertainment in less than ten years time at this rate.
Replaced by delusional biological men.
Well done 3rd Wave Feminists, you played yourselves.
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The music (and fashion?) industry has a problem with badly recycling genuinely creative material, whether music or clothing. Itâs almost as though there was a 50 year post-war period of creativity and then everything that managed to go mainstream since has been highly derivative, rather than building on the base of whatâs gone before. Where there is innovation it doesnât seem to be exciting or appealing, or itâs got strong racial limits of appeal.
It is weird hearing radios playing 60s to 90s stuff at work, channels chosen by those in their 20s and 30s. Muzak in the hotel last week was all 70s and 80s (I still have Final Countdown earworm). When I was a teen I was unusual to be buying Carl Perkins along with Deep Purple. No-one cared about music from 10 years before because there was so much new good stuff coming through.
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Help please! Can someone tell me. Harry Stylesâ song - the opening riff is straight out of another song and I canât for the life of me remember which one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5v3kku4y6Q&ab_channel=HarryStylesVEVO
I am a diehard Iron Maiden fan from way back when they first came on the scene so all this stuff has no interest to me. Most of them donât play any instrument and will be forgotten in a few years time.
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Maybe
Overall Iâd say, while sounding less of a direct soundalike than the A-HA opening, that itâs very heavily leaning on early Depeche Mode, this iconic example having both a similar opening and sound, although less obvious as I say.
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Thanks so much Kirsten. It was really bugging me. For me, itâs straight out of the opening of Take on Me. 
Good point about Depeche Mode.
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Paul or Bruce?
Have the Wet Legs girls not heard about Tena Lady?
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Good article, thanks. I just think itâs a tragedy that women (and men) believe that they need to put themselves under the knife or have health-damaging chemicals pumped under their skin. It matters because people like Madonna are more than âjustâ private individuals. Such individuals are icons and set trends. She has become something out of the Hunger Games and where she goes others will follow.
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I never found her especially attractive before, but please tell me that image is lying.
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Itâs sad her face looks like a polished river stone. Where was the physicianâs ethic?
Mind you, no worse than the travesty that is now Pricilla Presley. Or Cher 
It looks like she has been taken over by a plastic alien copy.
Just glad I donât need any such work. That is me btw, avatar top left, honest.
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