I'm reading the Katie Perry interview and she's truly one of the most shallow, awful, annoying people ever to have found fame. Britney was dumb too but not in a calculated way like Perry.
It's a tale as old as time. Writer achieves great commercial success with book X in a series. Editor loses ability to edit star writer for books X+n, which go off the rails and are defended only by those who can't reconcile the bloat of X+n with their love of X.
For GoT, X=3. For His Dark Materials, X=1.5. For Hunger Games, X=2.
Reminds me of a certain popstar's situation, just replace 'book' with album/era
It's alleged to be Royals, which makes sense because artists usually perform their biggest hit of that year/the song they're nominated for (three times), but I'm dying for her to perform Team