Media followed and scrutinized their every movement and every word, their perceived morality intertwined with their continuing rise or inevitable fall. There was neither room nor tolerance for a gray area between, and if someone managed to prove otherwise, that success was merely a short-term loan from the devil, due for certain collection at any moment.Ī decade later and on the other side of the country, female pop singers, glowing with fame and power and sexiness, would still feel the need to publicly declare themselves godly and chaste in interviews on MTV. Those factors served as dividers between good and bad, value and trash, success and disgrace. As a girl born in the Bible Belt in the 1980s, I grew up understanding femininity to be a holy trinity all its own: purity, presentation, and popularity.
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