No Rock And Roll Fun

DEBBIE GIBSON FOLLOWS IN TIFFANY'S MISSING SHOES AGAIN: Debbie Gibson - or Deborah, as she likes to be thought of nowadays - is hitting the comeback trail the only way she knows how. Back when we were all a lot younger, she'd tease us with a glimpse of naked knee through her jeans. Now we're all a lot more grown up, she's going to show us the rest with a Playboy spread. It all makes sense, of course, because she's promoting a single called Naked - presumably, had she recorded a single called Violate Me With A Ornamental Marrow, the photoshoot would have appeared in Hustler.

Not all her fans are as thrilled as you might expect, as the early slew of posts to the Debbie Gibson Usenet group are rather alarmed at the prospect (although we suspect some regular posters to the group would have been thrilled by the news that they'll finally get to see if the pictures they made with Photoshop, the Out of the Blue album cover and a few back issues of Readers' Wives were as accurate as they hoped; it's just they might have found getting to a computer that bit more tricky under the circumstances). For example Darius Z is very grumpy indeed:

So Deborah is going to do Playboy... why am I no longer suprised. Deborah, you've signed the death nail to your own career, you will never be taken seriously again. Your words you've used in the past against artists who are so "sexual" and how you said that you should keep the imagination (so no pose in porno mags) will come back to haunt you.

We're very keen to watch someone signing the death nail to their own career, which isn't so much a mixed metaphor as a metaphor wedged into a smoothie maker set on its highest level, of course, but there's a lot of truth in what Darius has to say. Already, there's talk that such frothy business as topless posing could really harm Gibson's chances of winning the Shortlist Music Prize next year.