What makes KT attractive?...

[Graham Dombkins]

This came over the local music group and I thought that the
love-hounds & rec.music.gaffa types might find it interesting, and
possibly worth a discussion.

- From pe...@cluster.cs.su.oz Mon Jan 15 13:48:10 1990
- Path: wraith!wolfen!cluster!pete
- From: pe...@cs.su.oz (Peter Merel)
- Newsgroups: aus.music
- Subject: Re: (Warning) Kylie (Warning)
- Message-ID: <6...@cluster.cs.su.oz>
- Date: 15 Jan 90 02:48:10 GMT
- References: <9...@appleoz.oz.au> <12...@otc.otca.oz>
- Sender: ne...@cluster.cs.su.oz
- Reply-To: pe...@cluster.cs.su.oz (Peter Merel)
- Distribution: aus
- Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
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- In article <12...@otc.otca.oz> way...@otc.otca.oz (Wayne Robinson) and
- in article <9...@appleoz.oz.au>, ks...@appleoz.oz.au (Kent Sandvik) cough up
- the party line that musical ability is unrelated to presentation - i.e. just
- because everyone, regardless of sex, would like to root kylie, that doesn't
- alter the fact that she sounds godawful.
-
- What these folks have failed to understand is that music is about sensory
- stimulation. This simple fact is the sole justification for such emminently
- successful phenomena as light-shows, dance parties, MTV, opera, and ballet.
- Gender-free sex-symbols synergetically enhance ANY music. Kylie is only
- the latest example in an ages-old chorus of dancing pop-tarts, and I for one
- fail to see anything wrong with that. If "the Kylie phenomenon" is competition
- for "new music", then it is only Hobson's choice for anyone with the temerity
- to shell out bucks for entertainment.
-
- Of course the synergy works the other way, too. If Kate Bush couldn't sing
- would she be anywhere near as attractive? I don't think so. Where's the harm?
- "A football team" is the strange attractor for drunks - pe...@cluster.cs.su.oz.AU
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- Graham