Jessie J's Who You Are fails to tell us who she is

The selling of Jessie J is an attempt to will into being a British icon to take on Ke$ha, Gaga and Perry on their home turf. But an icon she isn'tWhat makes a great pop star? It's not quite the music, or the videos, or the clothes, the fame or even the outrages. All those things matter, but it seems to me they emerge naturally from some more basic quality. A pop star's job, I think, is to do what Greil Marcus once wrote about Mick Jagger – that he showed people "a new way of being in the wor...

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