Artists You Find Attractive & Why (Classical or Non-Classical)

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Captainnumber36

Discussion Starter · Sep 15, 2018

I find Gwen Stefani quite attractive. I am not a fan of her music, but I think she has a confident aura about her that is powerful for young girls. She isn't exactly cookie cutter either, and I do think she sold out a bit by leaving No Doubt, but I still think she is good looking.

Of course, no one can top Mozart; no one pulls off a powdered wig better than him!

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Clairvoyance Enough

· #2 · Sep 15, 2018

Cecilia Bartoli looks almost exactly like my coworker crush from my first job.

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muzik

· #3 · Sep 15, 2018

Brahms is super attractive, I'd be liking all his Instagram selfies if he was alive today.
It's weird thinking about classical music composers with Instagram accounts.

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bravenewworld

· #4 · Sep 15, 2018 (Edited)

I find Leonard Bernstein attractive in the sense that when I pass the age of 50 or so I would love to look like him... very handsome in a distinguished kind of way.

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Art Rock

· #5 · Sep 15, 2018 (Edited)

70s: Agnetha Faltskog (ABBA)
80s: Kate Bush
90s: Dawn Upshaw
00's: Stacey Kent
10's: Yuja Wang

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elgar's ghost

· #6 · Sep 15, 2018

Satu Vänskä, principal violin with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

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Brahmsian Colors

· #7 · Sep 15, 2018 (Edited)

Anastasia Huppmann and Janine Jansen

PlaySalieri

· #8 · Sep 15, 2018

Classical music is teeming with female talent. Elegant sophisticated ladies with demure expressions, fine figures and pretty faces, particularly violinists. Too many to list and the most beautiful are unknown.

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PlaySalieri

· #9 · Sep 15, 2018

Haydn67 said:
Anastasia Huppmann and Janine Jansen

Wow - I just googled Anastasia Huppmann and was so blown away I literally bought one of her CDs on Amazon - now that is what i call talent! Cant wait for it to arrive.

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Lisztian

· #10 · Sep 15, 2018

Saxophonist Amy Dickson.

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Enthusiast

· #11 · Sep 15, 2018

I would not want to be a spoil sport - if this is sport - but the marketing of classical music based on performers' looks makes me sick. If I see a young woman performer getting praised all over the shop for her playing and insight I tend to avoid her if she is being marketed for her physical attractions. I am very suspicious of the praise she gets. But if the marketers are not promoting her looks then I really do tend to believe the buzz.

Of course, I don't mind when some here praise the looks of this or that performer but what happens when she (it is usually men about women) gets older? I remember seeing a very offensive post on an Amazon forum about Martha Argerich a few years ago (I think she was being treated for cancer at the time) comparing her to a "beached whale" with some indignation because she was no longer a 20 year old cutie.

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Captainnumber36

Discussion Starter · #12 · Sep 15, 2018 (Edited)

Enthusiast said:
I would not want to be a spoil sport - if this is sport - but the marketing of classical music based on performers' looks makes me sick. If I see a young woman performer getting praised all over the shop for her playing and insight I tend to avoid her if she is being marketed for her physical attractions. I am very suspicious of the praise she gets. But if the marketers are not promoting her looks then I really do tend to believe the buzz.

Of course, I don't mind when some here praise the looks of this or that performer but what happens when she (it is usually men about women) gets older? I remember seeing a very offensive post on an Amazon forum about Martha Argerich a few years ago (I think she was being treated for cancer at the time) comparing her to a "beached whale" with some indignation because she was no longer a 20 year old cutie.

I separate attraction b/w lust and love. When it comes to lust, it's all about looks, but when it comes to love, I for the most part only care if they have a beautiful soul; that is what I'm romantically attracted to.

Admittedly, I am more on the lust side for Gwen Stefani.

I completely agree that marketing based on looks at the expense of talent is hideous. When it comes to Art Appreciation, I only care about if I enjoy the work and/or performance.

PlaySalieri

· #13 · Sep 15, 2018

Enthusiast said:
I would not want to be a spoil sport - if this is sport - but the marketing of classical music based on performers' looks makes me sick. If I see a young woman performer getting praised all over the shop for her playing and insight I tend to avoid her if she is being marketed for her physical attractions. I am very suspicious of the praise she gets. But if the marketers are not promoting her looks then I really do tend to believe the buzz.

Of course, I don't mind when some here praise the looks of this or that performer but what happens when she (it is usually men about women) gets older? I remember seeing a very offensive post on an Amazon forum about Martha Argerich a few years ago (I think she was being treated for cancer at the time) comparing her to a "beached whale" with some indignation because she was no longer a 20 year old cutie.

Agreed and the problem is record companies wont take on a performer unless they have killer looks. Ida Haendel and many other female artists, Annie Fischer, Lympany etc were plain looking women - never would have become known in todays world of glamour CD covers. This is why i say the best talent is actually hidden from the public eye because of this.

Enthusiast

· #14 · Sep 15, 2018

stomanek said:
Agreed and the problem is record companies wont take on a performer unless they have killer looks. Ida Haendel and many other female artists, Annie Fischer, Lympany etc were plain looking women - never would have become known in todays world of glamour CD covers. This is why i say the best talent is actually hidden from the public eye because of this.

Maybe things get better. I can think of a couple of younger women artists who are doing very well but who are, I think, a little plain and who are not marketed for their looks. Obviously it would be crass to name them. And I can think of another, also building a huge following, and I don't even know what she looks like! But marketing by looks is still alive and well and, judging by punter reviews on Amazon, may even work to persuade people that the performances by cute young women are exceptionally fine as well.

G

· #15 · Sep 15, 2018

Mari Silje Samuelsen.

I love this violinist, she is so mesmerising!

Mari Silje Samuelsen.

norman bates

· #16 · Sep 15, 2018

another blonde violinist: Anastasiya Petryshak

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Logos

· #17 · Sep 15, 2018

This topic is vulgar. "Glam" shots of artists on album covers are sad reminder that the only thing that will sell classical music to most mass-market consumers is physical beauty.

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G

· #18 · Sep 15, 2018

I love the scrumptious , delicious, angelic voice of Phillipe Jaroussky!

An aria from the movie "Farinelli", but now with Jaroussky's voice over.

Bulldog

· #19 · Sep 15, 2018

Enthusiast said:
I would not want to be a spoil sport - if this is sport - but the marketing of classical music based on performers' looks makes me sick.

I don't have any problem with it; good looks are a bonus feature.

mbhaub

· #20 · Sep 15, 2018

It is vulgar, but sadly that's where modern culture is. And it affects live concerts, not just the record biz. Today's orchestras want conductors who are young, studly men with hair that tosses about or thin, attractive women who look like athletes. You may have all the talent in the world, but if you're fat, short, homely or ugly, you will not be in front of a big orchestra any time soon. Look at the recent hires in Seattle, Indianapolis, Tucson, Los Angeles, San Diego, and elsewhere if you doubt it. Because of the public demand for attractive, youthful people record companies do the same. This is nothing new. 70 years ago the NYPO knew what it had in a glamorous looking Leonard Bernstein and exploited it. And I can't blame them.

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