Sorry all you TT lovers, I'm here responding to some crit in the rage thread.
They look and sound gay, and that's bad?
They look and sound bad, in a particularly manufactured way similar to many boybands, which (I cynically presume) is carefully designed to appeal to some specific high-consumption pop markets i.e. young ladies and gay men. It's not bad to look and sound gay, In My Humble Opinion it's bad to look like an image driven manufactured pop dance combo wearing too much white silk and standing in front of bright lights for that pseudo-religious presentation (see also Michael Jackson on that last point obv.)
In contrast, the Village People are ace. Better songs, costumes and voices than TT, and far enough into the past to be kitsch, which TT are (IMHO) not. It's not bad to look and sound gay. I never said it was.
People only like them because they fancy them? Because of course, gay men and women do that kind of shit, their critical faculties get blinded by their lust...
I like (e.g.) Natalie Imbruglia, Pink, All Saints (the shame!) and a slew of others because they are fit more than I love their music. Sex sells, allegedly, otherwise the pop music pinup poster industry wouldn't be as busy as it is. Because I don't like TT, I scandalously allege that their image may be as/more important as their music. I'm not saying the stoopid gayz and girlz are blinded by lust, I'm saying *everyone* is blinded by lust if that's the way you choose to phrase it. In fact, if you'll allow the generalisation, het men are sold artists using sex even more than boy-fanciers.
And nobody could actually like music that sounds different from wot you like, could they? They must be lying - perhaps even to themselves! False consciousness, 11, 23!
Oh please. If you read me as setting up my taste as the objective benchmark of good music, then I apologise, allow me to clarify- people have different tastes. My taste leads me to detest Take That. If other people like them, well and good, that does not reduce them as people nor make me think they are fools or idiots, the music people like is a tiny and transient part of their personality and IMHO not a reflection on their worth. I hope in return other people will not think less of me as a person for admitting I like music they detest. Like All-Saints, say, who arguably are targets for all the criticisms I lay at the prancing feet of Take That.
C'mon, guy. You can do better than this.
Erm, so can you? Projecting homophobia and misogyny onto a post about a boyband because I say they look like rent boys is a bit dodge if you ask me. Well done to keep the -ism alert high but c'mon. I don't care if the band are gay or not, they annoy the piss out of me and one reason is their image- look at the pic above and tell me that's not aimed at people who find young fit men sexually attractive. |
