I don't agree. I can just about remember being a teenager and I did silly things like smoking and going to pubs before I was 18 because I loved it. It was great doing grown up things, I didn't once think to myself "HA...! My mum would be really annoyed with me if she found out, aren't I clever".
I remember going to see Happy Monday's when they were in vogue, I saw Shaun Ryder and Bez off their tits on stage looking bloody awful and making total twats of themselves. I was NOT thinking "I want to be like that". I believe the same for the likes of Amy Winehouse...I suspect most teenagers look at her and DO NOT want to look like her. I don't think you can call her a role model and I don't think anyone with half a brain would aspire to be like her.
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