<<Look, I do this, that means I'm cool.>>
Hahahaha rock!
Southy, if that's Christina in your avatar, the world's really gone to hell, 'cause I sho'nuff thought it was George Clooney.......or Phil Collins..... *shrug*
<<She's got definite self-esteem issues. Anyone who sings "I am beautiful, no matter what you say" without intending irony is only putting on a show with the diva routine. "Tries. Too. Hard." is right on the mark for a description. Give that man a cheroot.
What you've got with CA is a very scared, very frightened woman (with a hell of a voice), who lives in mortal fear that people are going to hate her. Bad or absent father, perhaps; maybe an abusive childhood? Hence the big diva act: be indifferent to everybody and everything before they can be indifferent to you: "Let's you and him fight--preferably over me." She wants to break your heart before you can break hers. Oh, and she's *attractive*, so women will resent her good looks and men will think she's not good for anything but screwing. I call it the "Daddy's little slut" syndrome.>>
Wow...deep psycho-analysis. I know nothing to back it up, but it sounds logical. And while I'm on the subject, let me toss into the hat that a male version of this is more-or-less my theory on Eminem. I may refuse his movie, but I am smart enough to know that he does a damn commendable job in it, because what is he doing? Playing the same persona he plays all the time in public. Can you imagine anyone really being like that? It's too big; it would be EXHAUSTING, physically AND emotionally, to be that person all day, every day. When he does, though, he does it convincingly (to those who don't know better), and I think underneath he has SERIOUS problems...and this is why I find it interesting that the two seem to hate each other so much.
Goldeneye
(You SURE that's not Clooney?)