This is an article about a condition and an industry. This close discussion is framed within thinking about the popular music industry's capacity for carelessness, its schedule of pressure and practice of destruction on its own stars, particularly in this instance its female artists. Following such context the article looks in more detail at a small number of popular music artists who had experience of anorexia, their stage and media presentations (of it), and how they did or apparently did not explore their experience of it in their own work and public appearances. The protagonist of The Karen Carpenter Story (Sunday at 9 p.m. It involves contextually thinking about the (medical) history and the critical reception and representation, the place of anorexia across the creative industries more widely, and a particular moment when pop played a role in the public awareness of anorexia. But Karen Carpenter was more interesting, more troubled and more talented than most people thought. I explore the relation between the anorexic body and popular music, which is more than simply looking at constructions of anorexia in pop. This article discusses an extraordinary body in popular music, that belonging to the person with anorexia which is also usually a gendered body – female – and that of the singer or frontperson.
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