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| From | Steven Alter <shteevea@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Kay Hanely, Lisa Loeb- a different perspective |
| Date | Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:28:21 -0800 (PST) |
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Sam happens to be gorgeous, and Virgin actually DID try to market here as a pop-tart; she even took a role as a sexy terrorist in Die Hard 3. None of it helped sell what remain some of my favorite albums in my collection. But I didn't buy them becuase she was "hot" so I'm not sure why anyone else would...
Stewart Mason <craigtorso@verizon.net> wrote: ----- Original Message -----
From:
> This just proves that, still, women are not always taken seriously
> as
> musicians. Looks are still such an important factor, and it's really
> unfortunate. I wonder how many people heard "A Girl Called Eddy"'s
> album
> last year. Or Sam Philips'. These women don't market their looks.
> THey
> don't need to, they're both incredibly talented. The catch 22-
> perhaps
> because they chose not to market themselves as "hot babes" they're
> not as
> commercially succesful as they should be.
As the person who inadvertantly started this thread with a passing
aside of a joke -- along with liking her music, I happen to think Kay
Hanley is cute, and that she's getting cuter as she becomes less of a
standard-issue alt-rock-chick...so? -- I apologize for how it turned
into this kind of "lookist" debate.
However, as much as I like both A GIRL CALLED EDDY and A BOOT AND A
SHOE, I don't think their lack of mainstream commercial success has as
much to do with the fact that they "don't market their looks" so much
as the simple fact that they're terrific albums in musical styles that
don't fit in with the prevailing commercial climate. Regardless of
their msuical quality -- which I agree is very high -- they're just
never going to trouble the upper reaches of the charts, even if Erin
and Sam both posed in chemises and g-strings on the cover of next
month's issue of Maxim. And that sucks, but it's not the fault of how
they chose to market themselves.
S
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