BS: Music?

Subject: BS: Music?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 02:20 PM

(InStyle.com) -- Eric Dane, Rachel Bilson and other scorching celebs tell us what they think is sexy.

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Terrence Howard

"Watching someone make music. Music is the physical manifestation of inner thoughts. To see someone overcome his fear of sharing and speak from the heart is sexy. When you're playing for yourself, not trying to impress -- that's when you become impressive."

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/homestyle/08/21/is.stars.sexy/index.html

Subject: RE: BS: Music?
From: Cluin
Date: 23 Aug 07 - 02:03 PM

When celebrities shut the hell up for a while, that's sexy.

Subject: RE: BS: Music?
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Aug 07 - 05:31 PM

Some celebrities, Cluin, aren't pretty (or handsome).

Subject: RE: BS: Music?
From: John O'L
Date: 23 Aug 07 - 09:03 PM

I am a little mystified by the recent use of the word "sexy". It seems you can now use it to mean just about anything.

Subject: RE: BS: Music?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 24 Aug 07 - 11:47 AM

When I was in electronics school in the mid 60's, the oldest instructor - a man who had started before WWII - habitually used 'sexy' to describe particularly elegant circuits. He said the usage was standard.

Subject: RE: BS: Music?
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 24 Aug 07 - 05:37 PM

[Sorree - hit the wrong key]

A friend many years ago (1960s) said the sexiest piece of music she had ever heard was 'Pajaro Campana', 'The Bell Bird', by the trio Los Paraguayas - a musical representation of an orgasm (a female one at least, can't speak for the fellas).

Subject: RE: BS: Music?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 25 Aug 07 - 12:54 AM

""Watching someone make music."

Have you noticed how much tendency there is to replace the pleasures of listening with visual pleasures? Why would we watch somebody make music? What happened to listening, really listening, to the music?

For example, when MTV came along, the visual aspect of musical entertainment simply swamped the aural aspect. Suddenly it mattered what the costumes were, the sets, the performers' personal appearance. I doubt if a homely person with an incredible voice could hope to make it in today's popular culture.

The same is true in classical music. I hear that there are show-biz types who scan the pianists trying out for the Van Cliburn competition. They don't care how the young people play; they are checking for good looks.

I was in the supermarket the other day when an irritating, repetitious song caught my attention. A young woman with a weak nasal voice was singing one line over and over:

"Video killed the radio star."

Too true, and what Terrance Howard (whoever he may be) said is just another instance of that kind of process.