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Beth Ditto (born 1981) is the vocalist of American band The Gossip.
Ditto came to wider public attention in November 2006 when she was selected by NME as the coolest person in rock - being placed at number one in the magazine's annual 'Cool List'. The magazine cited her 'non-conformity' as the reason for her selection - she is a lesbian, an outspoken advocate of gay rights, weighs around 15 stone (about 210 lbs.) , and is also in a relationship with a transgendered individual who was born a woman but identifies as a man.
The band's breakthrough song "Standing in the Way of Control" was written by Ditto as a response to her government's decision to deny gays the right to marriage in the U.S. "Nobody in the States was that surprised or shocked by what Bush did, but it made everyone I know feel helpless and cheated," Ditto says. "I wrote the chorus to try and encourage people not to give up. It's a scary time for civil rights, but I really believe the only way to survive is to stick together and keep fighting."
Ditto was nominated for Sexiest Woman Of The Year in the NME Awards 2007, where she performed the Heaven 17 song "Temptation" with former Pulp frontman, Jarvis Cocker, although she lost out on the award to Kate Moss. She has also received criticism following a recent outburst in which she claimed that supporting Scissor Sisters on tour was "soul-sucking".
Recently she has refused to play in store at Top Shop stores citing her dissatisfaction with their clothes range not available in her size. She went as far as to offer to design clothes for them saying, "Give me the job. I want to design. I want you to make clothes for big girls - big boys. I want you to make big sizes."
Ditto posed nude for On Our Backs, a women-run lesbian erotica magazine. "It was a big moment in my life," she told Curve magazine. "It was kind of a radical thing to do. I got my period just 10 minutes before we got there, and I was totally bleeding. I was doing it with my tranny boyfriend, who I’m in love with, and I was totally bleeding — how radical is that? — and I’m a fat person, and I’m a femme. It felt really good."
Ditto has recorded a solo album, produced by Calvin Johnson at his Dub Narcotic Studio. The album has not yet seen a commercial release. Ditto also recorded a duet with Johnson: the track "Lightning Rod For Jesus" appears on Johnson's 2002 solo album What Was Me.
Ditto currently writes an advice column for British Newspaper The Guardian, appearing in its 'G2' section on Fridays, entitled "What Would Beth Ditto Do?"
Ditto is a sickening example of people who think that they are cool or different because they are fat and proud. The fact that she publicly boasts about having peroids and bleeding everywhere shows the mark of a sad individual so desperate to be accepted as "alternitive" but gets it sadly wrong and merely ends up looking a complete tool with her shocking attempts at being "shocking". She is also a dangerous role model for children with her claims that fatness should be embraced and celebrated rather than frowned upon and encouraged against or highlighted as the health issue it really is. This is shown by her insistence to wear clothes that would make christina aguilera blush. All in all she should be pitied and no doubt cries herself to sleep. And her musics shit.
Personal life
Ditto is from Arkansas..
As is commonly reported, she sometimes ate squirrels as a child. In an interview for NME magazine, she commented "I did eat squirrels when I was a kid, people in Arkansas just do - they'd think you were a freak if you ate squid there!" .
She doesn't wear deodorant, and also doesn't shave her armpits. "I think punks usually smell." she claims.
References
- http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2006/11/why_beth_ditto_is_the_coolest.html
- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2464811,00.html
- Curve Magazine
- The Guardian Music
- Beth Ditto criticises Scissor Sisters fans.
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/news/newsbeat/070313_beth_ditto.shtml
- http://www.curvemag.com/Detailed/613.html
- http://www.gossipyouth.com/bio/
- NME magazine interview, 2nd June 2007
- I Don’t Think We’re In Kansas Anymore
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