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When a Tell-All Documentary Is Just Another Press Release
These days, docs about pop stars feel publicist-approved — and they always seem to contain the same safe elements.
This year, we’ve already got Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero and Kings From Queens: The Run DMC Story(with more to come about Nicki Minaj, Brian Eno, Indigo Girls, Devo, and Céline Dion). We might learn this via camcorder videos of a miniature frolicking future star, as in Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me, or present-day footage, as in Machine Gun Kelly’s Life in Pink, when the performer returns to the Cleveland block where he spent his teenage years. Even the usually apolitical Swift — who has cited what happened to the Chicks when they censured George W. Bush as a cautionary tale — has used a doc to speak out: In Miss Americana, she explains the political awakening she had when Tennessee senator Marsha Blackburn voted against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.
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