[lbo-talk] Beautiful singers....

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Fri Oct 20 17:11:41 PDT 2006


If you had heard any of these women sing, you would not say that. Given their origin -- more or less in the whore house -- three of them would have found sufficient buyers for their beauty without having to sing.

Joanna

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>Joanna:
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>Don't know what to make of this, but the greatest popular singers of the
>20 century (of the countries I know), were also extremely beautiful...
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>[WS:] Is not it the other way around, they are popular because they are good
>looking? Many people can perform at a decent level, but only a few achieve
>a celebrity status. That status is perhaps 10% ability and 90% marketing
>and in the latter look and sex appeal are the main things that matter.
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>I think this is true how most institutions operate anyway. There are many
>talented people, but only few make it to the top. Those who do owe it
>mainly to the combination of luck, appearances and inside connections - but
>that is ex post facto rationalized as "exceptional ability." Bollocks!
>
>Wojtek
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