Not the X Factor pop that her songs were once compared to in a radio interview?
Yet Tehran's squabbling politicos, whom Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini once compared to scorpions, dissect every utterance.
With its palaces, silk-clad camel drivers and flourishing trade, the Persian caravan city of Rey "once compared to Baghdad".
Photographers recorded the upstanding citizens and downtrodden workers, the vistas and suffocations of a city once compared to Dante's Inferno.
That is a development one wag once compared to Vanilla Ice surpassing Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley.
Bill Parcells, the Jets' director of football operations, says that the bus station is full of guys who were once compared to Lawrence Taylor.
Of those people who took drugs within the past year, 9% reported having used more than one drug at once, compared to a previous figure of 7%.
It was once compared to a komodo dragon – even his lines seemed to have lines – but today he looks peachy as a schoolboy.
There are the black eyes, once compared to tiny oil wells, and the massive, leathery hands that erupt from his sleeves.
Dresden has one of the most beautiful opera houses ever built and one of Europe's finest orchestras, which Wagner once compared to a "magic harp".
On radio someone's face was once compared to "a chameleon walking across a raspberry ripple ice-cream" which seemed to me very beautiful.
