The Guardian
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(PC Music)
Like her PC Music compatriot Hannah Diamond, GFOTY (it stands for Girlfriend of the Year) is part parody. Specifically, the persona of 26-year-old Londoner Polly-Louisa Salmon is pastiching the “basic bitch”, that memetic term denoting myopically consumerist and dispiritingly dim womanhood. On stage she carries a Starbucks cup, on record she spouts cod-profundities like “Dying alone could be hard – especially if you have a dog”.
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Thu Dec 22 21:45:02 GMT 2016