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Post by kylerexpop on Jun 28, 2005 12:43:00 GMT -5
is her music any good? i have no idea.
but often, when a female recording artist is super-hot, her work is generally good.
see: shirley manson (garbage), avril lavigne *with make-up*, other women i can't think of right now. and heather nova with that one song. is heather nova hot? i can't remember. but that one song is cool. "nothing falls like / london rain! / nothing heals me like you do!"
modified because i forgot to mention the most important thing: performing bare foot. that's awesome!
but yeah. joss stone. what's her music like?
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Post by Magill on Jun 28, 2005 13:45:10 GMT -5
I do disagree with your premise that a hot female artist automatically means good music. Any number of pop tarts or others in the style over substance vein would contradict you.
She's got an old school soul sounding sort of voice (check out my alliteration there). I know she first made a big splash covering The White Stripes's "Fell in Love With a Girl." Though she sang "boy."
Did you watch the Grammys this year? She sang Janis Joplin songs with Melissa Etheridge.
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Post by Hucklebubba on Jun 28, 2005 22:20:58 GMT -5
I do disagree with your premise that a hot female artist automatically means good music. Oh, come now. He said "generally." but often, when a female recording artist is super-hot, her work is generally good. I'd imagine this phenomenon is influenced somewhat by the fact that ugly people aren't allowed anywhere near the recording industry. This reminds me of something, which is in no way my jeep. I have this weird tendency to enjoy music more, or at least come closer to tolerating it, if I know that a hot woman is doing the singing. Example: "Barbie Girl" by Aqua. Generally considered to be one of the worst songs of all time, albeit in a "guilty pleasure" sort of way. However, the woman who sings it is (as I recall) far from bad-looking, and that makes me feel better. I know it's all sound, and therefore the appearance of the artist shouldn't matter, but here we are. I guess it's a subconscious thing. Or a personality flaw. Either way, I gotta be me. |
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Jun 28, 2005 22:38:49 GMT -5
Example: "Barbie Girl" by Aqua. Generally considered to be one of the worst songs of all time, albeit in a "guilty pleasure" sort of way. However, the woman who sings it is (as I recall) far from bad-looking, and that makes me feel better. Plus it led to the hilarious parody song Jersey Girl, so it can't be all bad. And keeping on theme: Liz Phair is also hot. Rowr! -D |
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Post by Head Mutant on Jun 29, 2005 7:21:53 GMT -5
(1) I have Barbie Girl as one of my ringtones.
(2) They let Alanis near a recording studio, didn't they?
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Post by Magill on Jun 29, 2005 19:43:13 GMT -5
Okay, let's go with the idea that the record industry prefers pretty people. This would lead me to assume that the proportion of non-pretty people with good music is in fact higher than the proportion of pretty people with good music. This assumes that some no-talent pretty people are allowed to make music based on the strength of their looks rather than their talent. It would make sense that the proportion of non-pretty people with good music is higher, because they can't coast on their looks.
Sorry to get all logical on you there.
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Post by kylerexpop on Jun 29, 2005 23:36:33 GMT -5
i could bust out some venn diagrams here, but you are quite correct anyway.
i apologize if i've hurt, offended, disillusioned, punched, or upset anyone here, male or female. that was not my intention.
i get kinda spoiled out here, because through morgan and some other performing artists i know, i've met/talked with/admired a lot of local artists (and by "local" i mean "socal" and by "socal" i mean "huge land mass area"), and they are varying in looks. some are really hot, some are really not. all have a natural beauty that comes from self-confidence and a genuine love for creativity and musical expression/performance in general.
in addition to earthy, earth soul-infused work, i also have a high tolerance for soulless manufactured bubble gum pop music, and find that some is so manufactured and tailored to fit cultural "highs" that it emerges on the other side of "soulless pop" to become "fun" again, just like certain cult films. the soundtrack to "josie and the pussycats" is an excellent example.
i forgot what my point was, because i just got a hunger pang and it's pasta salad night. anyway, i don't know if joss stone is a genuine "artist" or if her work is as painstakingly micro-managed as the pizza at california pizza kitchen. but i just finally had a real pizza from california pizza kitchen, and it was EXCELLENT. and joss stone was featured in the sunday magazine supplement in the newspaper, and she is EXCELLENT. there's a correlation there. i'm not sure what it is.
eat mor chikin!
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Post by PoolMan on Jun 30, 2005 12:32:19 GMT -5
(1) I have Barbie Girl as one of my ringtones. But I thought you were morally opposed to homosexuality! Oh I keed, I KEEEEEED! Just seemed a snappy thing to say. Just be glad I pre-empted my own "purple popsicle" comment in that other thread...  |
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Post by kylerexpop on Jul 5, 2005 10:59:34 GMT -5
who is "aslyn?" she seems hot, too.
you know what's weird? i pride myself on doing all things with a hint of spirituality, or least pop culture-inspired insanity, sprinkled into my motivations.
example: when i first bought an ipod, the first song i put on it was "vertigo" by u2.
HOWEVER: sunday, after i picked up my replacement ipod and brought it home to set up, i forgot that for reasons too lengthy to type right now, i had michael jackon's "thriller" in my itunes library on my new computer. so "thriller" is the first batch of songs on my new ipod ("kyle mares' ipod 2.0" = catchy name, eh?).
i don't know how i feel about that.
i do know i think i'm going to either buy or convince a music-obsessed friend who will buy anything her friends tell her to buy joss stone's album. i'm excited! i think the cover is purple, and that's cool. i'll let you all know how it is.
joss stone and my ipod have a date, and i'm going to chaperone. OMG lol!!!!
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Post by Head Mutant on Jul 5, 2005 13:07:07 GMT -5
Do I want to know what you and your iPod do on a date? Does it involve many accessories and attachments?
Oh, and as for Barbie Girl... well, I like to be annoying. But you knew that.
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Jul 5, 2005 13:56:05 GMT -5
Do I want to know what you and your iPod do on a date? Does it involve many accessories and attachments? Well, not on a first date... geez, Justin. What kind of an iPod do you think she is?  -D |
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Post by Head Mutant on Jul 5, 2005 20:34:10 GMT -5
At least 30 gigs. Wowza!
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