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NEW YORK - FABULOUS & 50!

Here's what we don't get about other magazines. It's one thing when they take a picture of some stunning new ingenue (with finger quotes) and airbrush her within an inch of her life—it generally makes the person look like one of those latex Real Dolls, but it makes a linear sort of sense. Why, though, would you get someone to smooth out the pocks and wrinkles of a 50-year-old drunken mess to the point that it looks like he's slathered his face in foundation for an article that is basically an extended potshot at how he's a decrepit 50-year-old drunkard? Is there a Retouching Union or something they're worried about pissing off? Seriously, why would you take a picture of Shane MacGowan and decide to "erase the years"? (PS: Nice work starting your article quoting a Pogues song he neither wrote nor performed.)