I don't think that woman is worth a second thought. She spends an entire article arguing that
the Oscar curse is a hoax and another one
praising Lady Gaga as a musical and marketing genius.
In the first one she clearly feels superior because she managed to "debunk" some brain-dead myth.
In the second one she makes a shallow attempt at justifying why she joined the Gaga bandwagon. If that woman is a musical genius OUTSIDE of the stuff we know, where are the examples?
It's the same mistake she did in the "review" for Meat, where she hazily remembered that "some of the tunes are catchy" but completely failed to tell the reader which tracks she liked or didn't like (and why).
So what if she wrote for the "New Zealand Herald" for five years and "interviewed a host of A-listers"? An interview alone doesn't make a good article, especially if you go in there as unprepared as she appears to be whenever she writes an article.