"Young brains are soft, excitable and easily addled. There are many things they should be sheltered from, and some choices that should not be theirs to make."
"Will we one day look back on this era of teen pop stars, child actors and tiny influencers as on some unfathomable age of barbarism, and wonder what on earth we were thinking?"
"We do, however, know that Payne first appeared on The X Factor at the age of 14, and that a mere two years later he and his bandmates shot to the kind of global fame that had fans hiding in bins at the back of hotels."
"There is an established pattern of untimely death for those fed early into the fame machine... amid the grieving posts by fans were dotted other names, such as Amy Winehouse."
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