As a self-professed info-maniac and someone with an innate love of culture, pop music and film (read: a gay guy), I’m naturally drawn to movies about musicians, particularly documentaries, which allow filmmakers rare access to a world few actually know about, despite what they may assume. Like any subgenre, these films vary in quality. While usually entertaining, documentarians will seldom capture something truly insightful about the life of a pop star. Even with admittance into the inner circle as a spectator, documentary filmmakers can’t always peer close enough into their subject’s life. Too often, these movies are vanity projects, co-produced by the person they’re chronicling, that don’t have the privilege of being able to dig into the real nitty-gritty of what it’s like to be a world-

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