Musical Personalities
Friday, July 20, 2007
The Atlanta rapper T.I. is the latest artist to explore music using multiple personas. We ask New York Times pop music critic Kelefa Sanneh and Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein, a psychologist specializing in Dissociative Identity Disorder, why multiple personalities are so common among stars and how they affect their music.
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Singers adopting different personas was common in Weimar Cabaret as well. It underlined the subversive aspects of their music.
in your discussion of tori amos you seem to be forgetting that she has adopted several personalities before (see "strange little girls,")
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