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Jarvis Cocker likens fame to porn
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 13 July 2020
Jarvis Cocker has likened fame to pornography, saying that becoming famous in the mid-90s left him unsatisfied.
“It was a very strange time for me because I’d achieved my lifetime’s ambition and then found that it didn’t satisfy me”, he tells the Sunday Times. “[It] reminded me of pornography. Of how pornography takes an amazing thing – love between two people expressed physically – and kind of grosses it out”.
What if you’re famous for making pornography though? What’s that like? I mean, can fame be like pornography if it is pornography? Is it twice as gross? Or does it cancel itself out?
Maybe these are not questions for right now. Not least because – and I can’t stress this enough – Jarvis Cocker has not started making pornography. He is, in fact, preparing to release a new album with his non-pornographic band, Jarv Is.
Titled ‘Beyond The Pale’, that album is out this Friday. From it, this is ‘Save The Whale’:
