The Internet Is Desperately Trying To Figure Out Who ‘Doris’ Is In Grace Jones’ New Book

Ever since Time Out posted that salacious excerpt from Grace Jones’ new autobiography, I’ll Never Write My Memoirs, the Internet has been doing their best detective work in trying to crack the mysterious case of an unhappy “Doris” who seemed to have sold her soul for fame. In fact, the search for the real “Doris” has prompted the website from scrubbing the site clean of the mysterious pop star.

Here’s what was said before the wipe job.

With this one, who I will call Doris, I thought she was trying on other people’s outfits: she’s a baby in a closet full of other people’s clothes, a little girl playing dress-up, putting on shoes that don’t fit. I could see what she wanted to be when I watched her doing something when she started out that was starker and purer. Deep down, she doesn’t want to do all the dressing-up nonsense; she loses herself inside all the play-acting.

I look at Doris and I think: Does she look happy? She looks lost, like she is desperately trying to find the person she was when she started. She looks like really she knows she is in Vegas, now that Vegas is the whole entertainment world filtered through the internet, through impatient social media. I don’t mind her dressing up, but when she started to dance like Madonna, almost immediately, copying someone else, it was like she had forgotten what it was about her that could be unique. Ultimately, it is all about prettiness and comfort, however much they pretend they are being provocative.

Doris’ story may very well be a cautionary tale of every naive young woman from a small town with dreams of making it to New York/L.A., or it can very well [redacted]. Who knows. But despite the now edited excerpt, ‘net detectives are still wracking their brains over this because solving a mystery is more fun than finishing those TPS reports.

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