I always reckoned George Michael had an initial plan, which he stuck to totally.
1) Sign a bad contract, with his mate, make records, make it big.
2) Sue to get out of bad contract, sign better one, continue.
3) Make 'solo' tracks
4) Continue in 'pop' direction with mate, come over all 'sofistic' on his own.
5) Split band, go 'macho'
6) sofist. pop records, loads of girls in vids, eventually no appearances in videos.
7) Sue to get out of contract again, become 'free agent'
8) Make some more records, umm that's it.
9) Finally come out as gay in a fairly spectacular fashion.
This, I believe, has been the game plan from day one. Since the plan completed, he's done some other things in a sort of "oh, now I'm lost should I go this way? Or this way? no hang on..."
Did anybody else go about it in such a calculating manner? (or just appeared to have, allegedly..)
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 6 March 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)
That KLF/Doherty thing would have really been great if it were true.
Even without that hoax story, his adventures do have a certain "slightly orchestrated by a Max Clifford type dude every now and then" feel to them, don't they?
I don't think there's a real
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15) get back with Kate (seventh time) and break up again
16) die
17) profit
plan, though. Just some pushing in the right/wrong direction sometimes.
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)
U2: take over the world and get Bongo his own christianity-based country in Africa. Has been the plan all the time, no doubt about it.
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)
I'm curious how many current pop-stars (rappers in particular) embark upon their careers fully expecting to branch out into the movies?
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 6 March 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)