{"id":133110,"date":"2024-11-16T20:01:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T20:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/16\/boy-george-recalls-being-ultra-competitive-in-the-80s\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T20:01:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T20:01:37","slug":"boy-george-recalls-being-ultra-competitive-in-the-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/16\/boy-george-recalls-being-ultra-competitive-in-the-80s\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy George recalls being ultra competitive in the 80s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-11-16\" datetime=\"1731787297\" pubdate=\"\">16 November 2024<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/boy-george\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,boy-george\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boy George<\/a> was fiercely competitive in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Boy George shot to stardom in the 80s<\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old singer shot to stardom as the lead singer of the pop band Culture Club in the 80s, and he&#8217;s recalled being ultra competitive with his pop rivals.<\/p>\n<p>He told Sky News: &#8220;When you&#8217;re young, everything&#8217;s a competition. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As you get older, you get a bit more confident about who you are and more secure and therefore you&#8217;re able to enjoy things without feeling threatened. So I think in the &#8217;80s, all of us were in competition with each other &#8230; nowadays I&#8217;m kind of able to enjoy a lot of bands that I hissed at in the past, you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>George recalled clashing with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/madonna\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,madonna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madonna<\/a> during the 80s, and he&#8217;s acknowledged that there was never &#8220;any kind of warmth&#8221; between them.<\/p>\n<p>\nDespite this, the &#8216;Do You Really Want to Hurt Me&#8217; hitmaker is still a big fan of the pop icon.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe shared: &#8220;Over the years we sort of met each other, but there&#8217;s never been any kind of warmth necessarily on either side. But I am a fan &#8230; with me, if I like the music, I don&#8217;t necessarily have to be best friends with the person &#8230; I can like things without being petty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nGeorge has enjoyed a hugely successful pop career, and he feels &#8220;lucky&#8221; that he still gets to follow his passion in life.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe reflected: &#8220;A lot of stuff I release, no one really hears of it unless they&#8217;re like a mad hardcore fan.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve released 54 tracks in the last year, probably more than any other artist. And I will continue to keep putting stuff out and being creative because it feels like breathing, you know, it feels really enjoyable and I feel lucky that I get to do the thing I love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/boy-george-recalls-ultra-competitive-80s-1409178.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 November 2024 Boy George was fiercely competitive in the 1980s. Boy George shot to stardom in the 80s The 63-year-old singer shot to stardom as the lead singer of the pop band Culture Club in the 80s, and he&#8217;s recalled being ultra competitive with his pop rivals. 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