"regardless, the fact that both acts you mention got any attention AT ALL, EVER, pretty much proves my original point -- that physical appearance increasingly trumps legitimate talent" That's actually a good point. A few months ago I was channel surfing and came across the P Dolls performing in Manchester, UK in the 15,000 seat arena that was packed. If they were a bunch of cows, they wouldn't have gotten through the local church talent show. The music, btw, was diabolical. I was more of an Appollonia 6 guy myself, as I'm a sex shooter. ------Original Message------ From: Kerry Kompost Sender: audities-owner@smoe.org To: audities@smoe.org ReplyTo: kerry_kompost@yahoo.com ReplyTo: audities@smoe.org Subject: Re: Physical Graffiti/Musical Apologists Sent: Feb 25, 2009 6:44 PM Stewart Mason wrote: >>If looks are all that matters, why did last year's Pussycat Dolls album flop so badly? Why weren't Vanity 6 Prince's highest-selling project?<< I never said "looks are all that matters", bub; regardless, the fact that both acts you mention got any attention AT ALL, EVER, pretty much proves my original point -- that physical appearance increasingly trumps legitimate talent and I'll have nothing to do with it thankyouverymuch. On another note, I've noticed -- over the past year or so -- an apologetic mindset forming here on Audities, people posting stuff like "Duffy's voice is kind of weak but it's not bad" or "the new Matthew Sweet songs are pretty OK, all thing considered", etc. Wow. Does anyone have standards anymore, or is merely "ok" good enough when it comes to music these days? Does anybody remember laughter? kErrY www.myspace.com/nextprogband Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with SprintSpeed