THE STREETS' POP SECRET: WHO'S GOT THE CRACK?

The Streets’ Mike Skinner—a.k.a. the pasty-faced, drug-abusing British youth icon who’s not getting with Kate Moss—has a new album out at the end of month, the cheekily titled Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living. The record’s kinda ennh, but the lead-off single, “When You Wasn’t Famous,” is like “You’re So Vain” for the Misshapes set, in which an MTV-loved pop star is accused of hitting the pipe. Check out the lines (tee-hee!) below—oh, and "prang" means coke in Limeyland:

But I realized with you the truth could be a whole lot worse than the flack.
My whole life I never thought I'd see a pop star smoke crack.

Considering the amount of prang you'd done, you looked amazing on CD:UK.
You learn dances, do promo, cameras flashing, get in the van, zoom away….

Whenever I see you on MTV, I can’t stop my big wide smile.
And past the children’s appeal, I see the darkness behind….

Hmm. A trouble-making, youth-skewing starlet? ODB's too dead, and we all know that Whitney doesn't get out much these days. So that still leaves plenty of candidates. We know Natalie Portman checked out a Streets show a few years back, but does anyone know of any other possible binging birds from Skinner’s past? E-mail guesses to earshotblog[at]gmail.com.