dane
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My wife was doing a little channel surfing tonight and stumbled on VH1’s Divas Salute the Troops Special. We didn’t see the whole thing but we did catch Nancy and Ann Wilson (Heart). You cold tell they haven’t played for a little while, but still they were great. Besides doing a lot of songs from Dream Boat Annie, they did a couple from Led Zeppelin and The Who, and really pulled it off! For me it was truly a joy to see them together again.
Ok, my post…my veer! What is the matter with the music industry in the United States, and perhaps elsewhere too? When was it decided that talent means little. If you can’t squeeze your butt in a size 1 pair of leather Daisy Duke shorts, you’re no longer an asset to the music industry? For you that may be too young to remember, I’m talking about Ann Wilson. In the 80’s she put on weight and lo and behold…Heart was considered unmarketable. She still had a great set of pipes, but because she no longer had a body like a Barbie doll, it was the end of her career as a singer. Now, I consider myself fortunate. I grew up listing to great talented voices and it didn’t matter that they were rather full sized ladies. Kate Smith, Pearl Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney…what about Cass Elliot! Man that girl had a voice! She even had her own TV show. That’s how much it didn’t matter back then; nobody cared if she looked good in spandex…it was all about talent. It’s really a shame in my opinion that the music industry had equated being sexually appealing with talent. It’s even more of a shame that we, the public give into this type of thinking. Will it ever change? I doubt it. And what a loss that is. There are so many wonderful voices out there that could just make you melt, but you’ll never hear them all because the girls just don’t fit the mold. We sure have become shallow over the past 40 years, haven’t we.
Dane
Ok, my post…my veer! What is the matter with the music industry in the United States, and perhaps elsewhere too? When was it decided that talent means little. If you can’t squeeze your butt in a size 1 pair of leather Daisy Duke shorts, you’re no longer an asset to the music industry? For you that may be too young to remember, I’m talking about Ann Wilson. In the 80’s she put on weight and lo and behold…Heart was considered unmarketable. She still had a great set of pipes, but because she no longer had a body like a Barbie doll, it was the end of her career as a singer. Now, I consider myself fortunate. I grew up listing to great talented voices and it didn’t matter that they were rather full sized ladies. Kate Smith, Pearl Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney…what about Cass Elliot! Man that girl had a voice! She even had her own TV show. That’s how much it didn’t matter back then; nobody cared if she looked good in spandex…it was all about talent. It’s really a shame in my opinion that the music industry had equated being sexually appealing with talent. It’s even more of a shame that we, the public give into this type of thinking. Will it ever change? I doubt it. And what a loss that is. There are so many wonderful voices out there that could just make you melt, but you’ll never hear them all because the girls just don’t fit the mold. We sure have become shallow over the past 40 years, haven’t we.
Dane