The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #103123   Message #2096815
Posted By: alanabit
08-Jul-07 - 02:37 AM
Thread Name: Using sex to sell songs.
Subject: RE: Using sex to sell songs.
I saw the Pussycat Dolls on TV here once - just out of passing interest, because my karate instructor was (miming) playing sax with them on a TV show. It was pretty silly and dull and the song was so forgettable that I recall nothing about it at all. I have no problem with people using their sexiness to sell something. They have been doing it for years with yoghurt, chocolate and a hundred other products. These people are not interested in music, they are simply sales staff in a business pitch. What has that got to do with music? Why should it interest us?
I just have the same problem with the Pussycat Dolls as I have with porn films. I don't find them sexy. They have nice bodies, which they are prepared to contort into silly postures, while wearing ridiculous togs. Some people find that sexy, I guess... Good luck to them. I guess different people find different things sexy. I would kill my Granny to get into the Bangles changing rooml. I always thought they had wit, charm and warmth as well as nice bodies. That could turn me on. The silly posing antics of the Spice Girls - whom I personally find about as hot as yesterday's rice pudding... I would prefer to take the dog for a walk.