Comments on: Is The Age Of Sexless Pop Music Here? (And Was It Inevitable?) http://idolator.com/401012/is-the-age-of-sexless-pop-music-here-and-was-it-inevitable Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:18:30 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: elvissinatra http://idolator.com/401012/is-the-age-of-sexless-pop-music-here-and-was-it-inevitable/comment-page-1#comment-701032 elvissinatra Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:49:04 +0000 bf74fc4ae04139b20ed7dcc8870cead5#comment-701032 <P>@<A href="http://idolator.com/401012/is-the-age-of-sexless-pop-music-here-and-was-it-inevitable#c7675778">revmatty</A>: And don't forget about all the copies that will sell when one of these bastions of purity ends up actually impregnating someone/getting pregnant. Countdown until the inevitable JoBro shotgun wedding...</P> @revmatty: And don’t forget about all the copies that will sell when one of these bastions of purity ends up actually impregnating someone/getting pregnant. Countdown until the inevitable JoBro shotgun wedding…

]]> By: ObtuseIntolerant http://idolator.com/401012/is-the-age-of-sexless-pop-music-here-and-was-it-inevitable/comment-page-1#comment-701042 ObtuseIntolerant Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:17:35 +0000 bf74fc4ae04139b20ed7dcc8870cead5#comment-701042 <p>@<a href="#c7669622">moomintroll</a>: I still think someone should have made fun of how no one seemed to be wearing PANTS - now THAT was the one causing the hardest laughter in the living room where I was hanging with my sisters.</p> @moomintroll: I still think someone should have made fun of how no one seemed to be wearing PANTS – now THAT was the one causing the hardest laughter in the living room where I was hanging with my sisters.

]]> By: janine http://idolator.com/401012/is-the-age-of-sexless-pop-music-here-and-was-it-inevitable/comment-page-1#comment-701122 janine Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:46:43 +0000 bf74fc4ae04139b20ed7dcc8870cead5#comment-701122 <p>@<a href="#c7664786">NeverEnough</a>: From what I understand of the Jonas Bros' anatomy, yes.</p> @NeverEnough: From what I understand of the Jonas Bros’ anatomy, yes.

]]> By: NeverEnough http://idolator.com/401012/is-the-age-of-sexless-pop-music-here-and-was-it-inevitable/comment-page-1#comment-701132 NeverEnough Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:08:36 +0000 bf74fc4ae04139b20ed7dcc8870cead5#comment-701132 <p>@<a href="#c7661872">janine</a>: But will it be anatomically correct? That's important.</p> @janine: But will it be anatomically correct? That’s important.

]]> By: revmatty http://idolator.com/401012/is-the-age-of-sexless-pop-music-here-and-was-it-inevitable/comment-page-1#comment-701052 revmatty Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:51:48 +0000 bf74fc4ae04139b20ed7dcc8870cead5#comment-701052 <p>Pop music goes through these phases every few years where some artist or group of artists talks a lot about their purity issues, often with a whole lot of encouragement from the mainstream press who knows they can sell a whole lot of copies of Newsweek by making up a trend that will appeal to concerned parents (both positive and negative trends; meth is another of these fake trends). I remember a round of this in the late 80's when I was in high school, and recall that that's how Brit-brit broke onto the scene as well. And look how well that turned out.</p> Pop music goes through these phases every few years where some artist or group of artists talks a lot about their purity issues, often with a whole lot of encouragement from the mainstream press who knows they can sell a whole lot of copies of Newsweek by making up a trend that will appeal to concerned parents (both positive and negative trends; meth is another of these fake trends). I remember a round of this in the late 80’s when I was in high school, and recall that that’s how Brit-brit broke onto the scene as well. And look how well that turned out.

]]> By: Nunya B http://idolator.com/401012/is-the-age-of-sexless-pop-music-here-and-was-it-inevitable/comment-page-1#comment-701142 Nunya B Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:05:47 +0000 bf74fc4ae04139b20ed7dcc8870cead5#comment-701142 <p>@<a href="#c7660663">ObtuseIntolerant</a>: It did all feel kind of like the part in "She's All That" where she learns it was ALL! A! BET!, didn't it? For people younger than I am they sure did handle themselves better than I could've.</p> @ObtuseIntolerant: It did all feel kind of like the part in “She’s All That” where she learns it was ALL! A! BET!, didn’t it? For people younger than I am they sure did handle themselves better than I could’ve.

]]> By: moomintroll http://idolator.com/401012/is-the-age-of-sexless-pop-music-here-and-was-it-inevitable/comment-page-1#comment-701062 moomintroll Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:13:37 +0000 bf74fc4ae04139b20ed7dcc8870cead5#comment-701062 <p>If you give a really funny comedian with a reputation for sexual promiscuity, and no self censoring sensibilities the task of hosting a lame "music" video awards show where 99% of the attendees/ performers are asexual (pshhaw) Disney created teen stars wearing promise rings what do you expect?<br> Longest sentence ever.<br> I feel a bit like MTV set Russel Brand up. They knew what his comedy was about, they also knew that by including the Jonas Bros. that most of the viewership would be kids watching with their uptight parents. Russell had no chance.<br> I thought he was really funny, I mean what else was he gonna do? There was literally nothing else going on!<br> Now Russell has been reduced to Today show stories on the benefits of promise rings in which they don't even mention his name but just call him "the host".</p> If you give a really funny comedian with a reputation for sexual promiscuity, and no self censoring sensibilities the task of hosting a lame “music” video awards show where 99% of the attendees/ performers are asexual (pshhaw) Disney created teen stars wearing promise rings what do you expect?
Longest sentence ever.
I feel a bit like MTV set Russel Brand up. They knew what his comedy was about, they also knew that by including the Jonas Bros. that most of the viewership would be kids watching with their uptight parents. Russell had no chance.
I thought he was really funny, I mean what else was he gonna do? There was literally nothing else going on!
Now Russell has been reduced to Today show stories on the benefits of promise rings in which they don’t even mention his name but just call him “the host”.

]]> By: Reidicus http://idolator.com/401012/is-the-age-of-sexless-pop-music-here-and-was-it-inevitable/comment-page-1#comment-701152 Reidicus Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:11:04 +0000 bf74fc4ae04139b20ed7dcc8870cead5#comment-701152 <p>@<a href="#c7662036">janine</a>: Winner.</p> <p>Finally, if I may get personal for a sec, while we can take (likely deserved) potshots at the messenger and debate the silly ritual of promise rings and whatnot, speaking as the dad of a five year old girl, the increasing pornification / oversexualization of our culture is seriously freaking me out.</p> <p>And I think few of you may disagree when I say it wouldn't hurt to dial it back five or 10 notches. For starters, it might make "sexy" actually <i>mean</i> something when applied to music if it's a bit rarer and more taboo. (Can you imagine the reaction of the first people to hear "Put A Little Sugar In My Bowl"? I'll bet there were goosebumps for <i>days</i>.)</p> <p>And more importantly, while I'm doing my level best to raise my daughter to make smart choices, I'd like just a little bit of help from the broader culture to ensure that I'm not a premature grandfather in 10 years or so. Is that too much to ask?</p> @janine: Winner.

Finally, if I may get personal for a sec, while we can take (likely deserved) potshots at the messenger and debate the silly ritual of promise rings and whatnot, speaking as the dad of a five year old girl, the increasing pornification / oversexualization of our culture is seriously freaking me out.

And I think few of you may disagree when I say it wouldn’t hurt to dial it back five or 10 notches. For starters, it might make “sexy” actually mean something when applied to music if it’s a bit rarer and more taboo. (Can you imagine the reaction of the first people to hear “Put A Little Sugar In My Bowl”? I’ll bet there were goosebumps for days.)

And more importantly, while I’m doing my level best to raise my daughter to make smart choices, I’d like just a little bit of help from the broader culture to ensure that I’m not a premature grandfather in 10 years or so. Is that too much to ask?

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/401012/is-the-age-of-sexless-pop-music-here-and-was-it-inevitable/comment-page-1#comment-701072 Anonymous Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:52:07 +0000 bf74fc4ae04139b20ed7dcc8870cead5#comment-701072 <p>Sexless pop music is hardly new. Pat Boone was far more palatable to the communications industry than the amped-up Little Richard.</p> Sexless pop music is hardly new. Pat Boone was far more palatable to the communications industry than the amped-up Little Richard.

]]> By: RaptorAvatar http://idolator.com/401012/is-the-age-of-sexless-pop-music-here-and-was-it-inevitable/comment-page-1#comment-701082 RaptorAvatar Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:51:48 +0000 bf74fc4ae04139b20ed7dcc8870cead5#comment-701082 <P>At what point does sex that's been stripped down to pink nuts and bolts shellaced in crisco by the consumer industrial complex become every bit as insidious and empty as Sparks' religious bullshit? Not that the enemy here is sex. The enemy is spectacle and dogma transforming something awesome into either industrialized guilt for people too "moral" to think or another bovine glitter parade for the hoopleheads. Both sides need to back the fuck down and maybe write about people instead of... Ah fuck it. It's religion/industry, they'll do whatever it takes to keep the numbers up. JoBro cockrings by 2010.</P> <P>@<A href="http://idolator.com/401012/is-the-age-of-sexless-pop-music-here-and-was-it-inevitable#c7656871">Nunya B</A>: Well put. However, I'd probably be pumped if someone I agreed with did the same thing.</P> At what point does sex that’s been stripped down to pink nuts and bolts shellaced in crisco by the consumer industrial complex become every bit as insidious and empty as Sparks’ religious bullshit? Not that the enemy here is sex. The enemy is spectacle and dogma transforming something awesome into either industrialized guilt for people too “moral” to think or another bovine glitter parade for the hoopleheads. Both sides need to back the fuck down and maybe write about people instead of… Ah fuck it. It’s religion/industry, they’ll do whatever it takes to keep the numbers up. JoBro cockrings by 2010.

@Nunya B: Well put. However, I’d probably be pumped if someone I agreed with did the same thing.

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