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Amanda Palmer: ‘The Daily Mail seems to be nationally despised’

Media Monkey: Singer follows her song mocking the paper over its Glastonbury 'wardrobe malfunction' story with attack in BBC interview
  
  

Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer: naked truth about the Daily Mail? Photograph: Polly Thomas/Music Pics/Rex Features Photograph: Polly Thomas/Music Pics/Rex Features

Amanda Palmer is clearly not a woman to cross. After the Daily Mail claimed she had "made a bit of a boob of herself" with a Glastonbury "wardrobe malfunction", the singer got her own back by writing a song mocking the paper. On Monday, Palmer had another chance to stick the boot in when she was interviewed by BBC2's Newsnight. "The Daily Mail clearly don't know who I am if they're writing a story about my breasts being exposed," said Palmer, pointing out that her "entire body had escaped" on stage in the past. "Obviously the Daily Mail don't care one way or another if I'm the kind of performance artist or musician who gets naked – they just know that they've caught a photograph of a woman with her breast slightly exposed." Palmer reflected on how the UK press differs from US newspapers, adding: "The Americans don't really have an equivalent newspaper to the Daily Mail, that is part right wing agenda, part tabloid." Warming to the theme, she continued: "There's not enough attention on [US tabloids] to revile them, whereas the Daily Mail seems to be nationally despised." She admitted she didn't hang out with many Mail readers, but said: "I don't know if anybody really loves – deeply, passionately loves – the Daily Mail." Monkey looks forward to Palmer's reaction the next time the paper "spreads the love" in its sidebar of shame.

 

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