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The Simpsons are Cool but Barbie's a Minger - Professor Agnes Nairn

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And the downward spiral will occur even if the celebrity is actually good at what they do.<br />

In the next discussion the girls consign Britney to the middle column because “she’s good (at<br />

singing) <strong>but</strong> she’s bad coz she’s going out.”<br />

Girl 1 Britney Spears I think in the middle.<br />

Girl 2 In the middle yeah.<br />

Girl 3 She’s on the verge of going.<br />

Interviewer So down in the middle why?<br />

Girl 1 Because she’s, she’s good <strong>but</strong> she’s bad coz she’s going out.<br />

Interviewer Ok.<br />

Girl 1 But she’s good.<br />

Girl 2 She’s going out <strong>but</strong> she hasn’t gone yet.<br />

Year 6, Private School, Girls Group<br />

However, the children also understood that the process of fashion cyclical whereby<br />

something which is not fashionable to-day may become fashionable tomorrow. <strong>The</strong><br />

dialogue about Action Man thus continues as follows:<br />

Interviewer Out of fashion.<br />

Girl 3 Out of fashion for now. It’ll probably come back in a few years time though<br />

won’t it?<br />

Year 6, State School, Girls Group<br />

Indeed some of the children even understood the commercial value of keeping something<br />

until it comes back again.<br />

Interviewer Yeah. So do you think there’s actually quite a lot of this sort of thing, like<br />

things coming in and out of fashion now?<br />

Boy Yeah. Like a couple of years later you can take them to a shop or something<br />

and get lots of money for it.<br />

Interviewer Uh-huh.<br />

Boy I keep like, coz with the Yogioh cards, I’ve kept them all so like I was thinking<br />

about selling them on, <strong>but</strong> they wouldn’t sell for that much, so I’m just going<br />

to keep them so that when they go back in fashion and stuff…<br />

Year 6, State School, Boys Group<br />

Thus just as cool may be in the eyes of the beholder, cool may also be a function of the<br />

times.<br />

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