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Do you sometimes feel watching a passionfully musician is erotic?

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Do you think a female singer or solo performer is erotic?

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#1 ·
I have often wondered why it is so much more fun to watch a female singer or musician than a male singer or (solo) musician and I mean besides the fact a woman is anyhow more fun to watch than a man when you are a heterosexual man: for some reason a female performer adds some magic to it. Is it because I am a sexist who don't expect a woman to give a very good performance, so when she does I am extra enthusiast (like we are also extra enthusiast to see a child prodigy perform)? Or is there something erotic going on: playing music with much passion (with all the little sensual movements of the body and the focused mystic eyes) is kin to dancing and like the tyrant who let the woman live if she makes him soft by delivering a sensual dance a musician who plays passionfully makes us soft? Or am I just a pervert and you decent guys don't know what I am talking about? And if you are a little perverted too, does the same thing apply for women: do they find a great performance by a man erotic?
 
#3 · (Edited)
Do you think a female singer or solo performer is erotic?
It depends upon what they are wearing ... or not ....

(I remain uncertain as to whether or not this is a real musical question! For clarification to my own comment -- I usually can't see what a performer -- male, female, or other -- is wearing when I listen to a disc recording on my stereo system.)

-- Personal note to Agamemnon: I find the Aeschylus tragedy Agamemnon quite erotic, if that helps in your survey.
 
#12 ·
It depends. Donna Summer's Love to Love You Baby is some hot stuff! :eek: To me, soprano operatic singing is akin to setting Paul Bunyan loose on some California Redwoods! Nothing knocks down some solid lumber like that! You can even hear the thud!

Generally speaking, I don't like music with vocals or pop music (they kind of go together generally). I do have some preference for hearing female vocals in pop music though. I don't know, maybe it's because all the other music I listen to is such a sausagefest. But, anyway, I voted no. I don't consider most music to be the least bit erotic. I even find the use of music in pornos to be odd (though the use of Boléro might be interesting). Now if Beethoven ever finishes the Erotica...
 
#40 ·
It depends. Donna Summer's Love to Love You Baby is some hot stuff! .
That's not the same thing. In her performance the music is ancillary.

In terms of a performance that makes you feel something towards the performer, Donna Summer has nothing compared to Lucie Horsch, or Michala Petri, who I saw live when she was about Lucie's age. Oh my.
 
#14 · (Edited)
I don't find female (or male, for that matter) instrumentalism erotic, but a female singer beautiful in body and voice performing can be very erotic. However, that may be just because I'm young and so everything seems somewhat erotic :lol:. I'm sure I would think the same for male singers if I were gay.
 
#44 ·
I'm somewhat surprised by your response. Would you find a singer who cannot convey eroticism while singing - say - Carmen to have successfully performed the part? I don't mean she can only succeed if she's a size 2, but certainly she must be able to display sexuality with her voice and physical performance?

This is quite different from Yuja Wang whose beauty, I'm sure, sells tickets, but is not related to her artistry.
 
#16 ·
I have often wondered why it is so much more fun to watch a female singer or musician than a male singer or (solo) musician and I mean besides the fact a woman is anyhow more fun to watch than a man when you are a heterosexual man: for some reason a female performer adds some magic to it. Is it because I am a sexist who don't expect a woman to give a very good performance, so when she does I am extra enthusiast (like we are also extra enthusiast to see a child prodigy perform)? Or is there something erotic going on: playing music with much passion (with all the little sensual movements of the body and the focused mystic eyes) is kin to dancing and like the tyrant who let the woman live if she makes him soft by delivering a sensual dance a musician who plays passionfully makes us soft? Or am I just a pervert and you decent guys don't know what I am talking about? And if you are a little perverted too, does the same thing apply for women: do they find a great performance by a man erotic?
.... seriously?
 
#17 ·
For me personally, it's not as visual as it is... internal.

The fact my whole existence pretty much is dominated by males (both performers and composers), this has made good impression on me. I've always felt that my appreciation for male composers has a different spin than to the average male listener. There's a special spark as it were. But it is very internal kind of feeling, more of the mind than the eye, for sure... an attraction.
 
#19 · (Edited)
I've always felt that my appreciation for male composers has a different spin than to the average male listener. There's a special spark as it were. But it is very internal kind of feeling, more of the mind than the eye, for sure... an attraction.
This is what I mean. I don't mean anything vulgarly sexual: I do not get a hard-on or so but there is something of an extra 'spark' (or 'magic' as I called it in my OP).

I think it has to do with what's music all about: to me (so here comes my 'theory of music') music is about moving - physically and/or emotionally/mentally - the listener. But it is not just moving the other: it is moving TOGETHER. Music is like speaking without words: when you listen to somebody speak you not only try to understand his words (what you do on a conscious, rational level) but more unconsciously you move along with the rhythm and melody of his speaking. To put it mystically: together or as a group you become one. That's why music is strongly associated with dancing: music has the magic power to bring a group in a synchronic movement. Maybe this is why people still want to go to concerts, even if they can listen to the music on a CD or the internet: listening to a CD diminishes the fundamental experience of moving (or be moved) TOGETHER. And when you watch an attractive musician this mystical experience of moving (even if it is only in your head and heart) together with the passion/movement of the musician, so you two become one passionwise, adds an intimate ('erotic') dimension to the experience. In some vague, subliminal way you fall in love with the musician for that moment...
 
#23 ·
Passion is the most beautiful, most attractive thing a person can have. If a female performer of music sends forth waves of unadulterated passion, I'm attracted, almost no matter what she looks like. I remember soprano Helena Juntunen doing a "galvanizing", possessed performance in Mendelssohn's Paulus... woah!!! Well, she's very good looking, but that's beside my point.

If a male performer does it, I want to be him!
 
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#32 ·
There is a certain "vivaciousness" which can be inspired...

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#33 ·
Thanks for the visual:

Futwangler conducting with his shirt off

Karajan conducting in tight jeans

Yo Yo Ma playing in the nude, carefully covered by his cello

Martha Argerich playing in a tube-top
 
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