When people ask us how we like our coffee, we tell them "the same way we like our aggressively-marketed, cyclist-loving middle of the road singer-songwriters – happy." That's usually when people start to back away slowly.
Our point is that Sheryl Crow is trying to be happy, despite having to deal with the double-header of being dumped by a one-bollocked man on a bike and treatment for breast cancer earlier this year. For most people, this would be enough to tip them over the edge, but not Sheryl Crow. She's actually quite OK about things. Either that or she's doing that thing women do where they say they're fine even though they don't mean it. We've never been able to work that nest of ants out.
Sheryl Crow deserves to be happy and, judging by some of her song titles, it's something she actively strives for. All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun, If It Makes You Happy, Anything But Down, um, The Na-Na Song – they all have the underlying theme of letting nothing get you down, no matter how many attention-seeking moles you have plastered around your face.
But lately, fate – maybe because it got a bit sick of that All I Wanna Do song – has conspired to make Sheryl Crow's life as cack as possible. Firstly, her long engagement to cyclist Lance Armstrong broke up, and then Sheryl was diagnosed with breast cancer. The first one isn't such a big deal – we still haven't forgiven Armstrong for inventing that rubbish trend for wearing wristbands – but the second one is a bit more serious.
In February, Sheryl had an operation to remove a lump and then had some preventive radiation therapy. Now she's better enough to go on the telly and yammer about it all. Interviewer Diane Sawyer wanted to know if Lance Armstrong split up with her because of the cancer:
"No. No. No, it was really, I mean, really difficult, you know, just really difficult for both of us. I'm not angry. I mean, honestly, I look at it, and I just know that I can't be angry at Lance for being who he is. You know, he's a great person."
As well as the TV interview, Crow is also featured in this month's What Bastards Men Are issue of Vanity Fair, where she tells the magazine:
"I still feel bruised. I still feel really raw and vulnerable – not just from the breakup but the whole experience. … But the nice thing about my job is that there is a catharsis that I get to experience when I play some of this stuff."
Expect to hear the full story when Sheryl Crow releases her new single You Left Me When I Had Cancer You One-Balled Tosser.
Read more:
Sheryl Crow Fights Double Dose Of Heartache – ABC
[story by Stuart Heritage]
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