'Pop’s hottest ho' really isn’t that shocking

Azealia Banks may be out to shock - but it's nothing we haven't seen before.

With the papers full of the antics of female pop stars, I was struck by Camilla Long's interview with Azealia Banks ("pop's hottest ho") in The Sunday Times.

The singer, said Long, is sitting on a sofa "in a see-through shirt and a one-inch skirt, but the fact that I can see both her nipples and nearly her front bottom is only a sideshow"; during the interview "she screams and giggles and whips her weave, finally bursting into howling, hysterical tears, saying that her mother is a bitch' and crazy' and a mindf***'".

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