What makes KT attractive?...

[munnari!wraith.cs.uow.oz.au!graham@uunet.UU.NET (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 pete@cluster.cs.su.oz Mon Jan 15 13:48:10 1990
- Path: wraith!wolfen!cluster!pete
- From: pete@cs.su.oz (Peter Merel)
- Newsgroups: aus.music
- Subject: Re: (Warning) Kylie (Warning)
- Message-ID: <689@cluster.cs.su.oz>
- Date: 15 Jan 90 02:48:10 GMT
- References: <920@appleoz.oz.au> <1254@otc.otca.oz>
- Sender: news@cluster.cs.su.oz
- Reply-To: pete@cluster.cs.su.oz (Peter Merel)
- Distribution: aus
- Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
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- In article <1254@otc.otca.oz> wayner@otc.otca.oz (Wayne Robinson) and
- in article <920@appleoz.oz.au>, ksand@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 - pete@cluster.cs.su.oz.AU
- 

 - Graham