For Goodness Sake, Have Some Faith In Yourself

There is only side of singer Paloma Faith that Emma Brand is ready to believe in.

Emma Paloma

In her Twitter bio Paloma Faith describes herself as “pop starlet / actress / the voice uk coach 2016 / hustler / activist / feminist / blagger / bosher / slave to the rhythm”.

International Women’s Day on 8 March brought out her activist-feminist side. Paloma was promoting #SheInspiresMe to her 611k Twitter followers. The women she credits with inspiring her include Laura Mvula, Emma Watson, Annie Lennox, Malala Yousafzai and her mother – for various, different reasons. Her Instagram and Facebook profiles were also supporting the hashtag, but with name checks for different women. With so many sources of inspiration, Paloma come across as a very empowered, independent woman with strong feminist leanings.

On the other hand, the persona she portrays as a judge on The Voice (UK) is that of a ditzy blonde who makes the wrong decisions, e.g. she doesn’t turn round when she should have done; moreover, she can’t stop criticising herself for these mistakes. Paloma also appeared absurdly shocked when a contestant on the show turned out to have the same name as hers: it was almost as if she had forgotten it was her name until someone else said it.

In line with this ostentatiously oh-so-vulnerable aspect Paloma has also issued the following request: “Please can you refrain from sending negative messages to any of the contestants on The Voice they are all inexperienced and some very young?”

Maybe she is acting like this because she thinks it will make good telly, but speaking personally it is more likely to make me switch over to absolutely anything else.

Or perhaps she’s doing both sides now in support of her album title, ‘A Perfect Contradiction’.

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