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TrivialPursuit said:

well this did the opposite as it further continued the bands slagging sales.

Well HELL! I entered this thread hoping to find names of people to google but they are women.

MickyDolenz said:

alphastreet said:

In recent times, Madonna had her tub video, and on their birthdays, Monica and janelle monae posted nude photos in their birthday suits Not to body shame anyone cause it looks like they take good care of themselves, but I don’t get the point of showing it off. And the majority of people who comment on those kind of posts seem to be enabling them

Didn't Madonna put out a book in the 1990s long before social media? I watched a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert years ago where they were at some festival and Flea was completely naked. It was on Youtube and he was not blurred out either. I don't know if it's still up or not. The entire band was also known for performing wearing only a sock. I also recall singers like Grace Jones & Wendy O. Williams in the 1980s. Like I mentioned in another thread, in the 1960s, John Lennon & Yoko Ono had an album called Two Virgins. John was also naked on the cover of Rolling Stone around 1980, but Yoko was dressed.

And don't forget about Grand Funk Railroad. I googled and found an outtake of that photo session which showed even more on one of the guys. And also The Alman Brothers. I found a picture of all of them, full frontal, standing in a river.

purplethunder3121 said:

MickyDolenz said:

If people want to post photos like that on their Instagram or whatever, that's their business. But it's a different thing if someone hacks a celebrity's personal photos and leaks them on the internet. That isn't good at all.

I was around for the Madonna Sex book. I mostly remember that it was reported that people who bought it were complaining that the covers would fall off. On the Girlie Show tour, Madonna had one of the Fly Girls (Carrie Ann Inaba) from In Living Color as one of her dancers and she was topless at the beginning. Many celebrities have done nude or semi-nude professional photo shoots in the past. They tend to be kinda artsy though, like those Ohio Players album covers. Marilyn Monroe is one of them. There's also the famous Burt Reynolds photo.

I found an outtake of that one also where he had moved his hand. HOT!!!!!!!!!!

luv4u said:

purplethunder3121 said:

He needs manscaping real bad

HELL naw! Hairy dicks are almost as hard to find these days as good music.

TrivialPursuit said:

luv4u said:

He needs manscaping real bad

Nope. Shaved men look like fucking mutants. Hair grows for a reason, on men and women. It's one thing to trim his pubes a bit. It's quite another to shave his body down so he looks like a 45 year old child.

Don't even trim them. Let them grow as wild and free as possible. The hairier, the better.

purplethunder3121 said:

TrivialPursuit said:

Nope. Shaved men look like fucking mutants. Hair grows for a reason, on men and women. It's one thing to trim his pubes a bit. It's quite another to shave his body down so he looks like a 45 year old child.

Where's Vain Andy...

Here I am. Everybody knows me very well.

vainandy said:

RJOrion said:

some of yall are hairy as fuck.... hair all on yalls backs and knees and feet and foreheads and whatnot... wtf?

FOREHEADS????

I feel bad for artists these days. Back in the day you could sell a coffee table book of just photos of yourself.

I remember when I was a CHILD, I had a photo book of New Kids On The Block (by photographer Lynn Goldsmith?) which featured a couple of that kind of candid, shirtless moments posted for free daily to followers on Instagram. I HAD TO SHELL OUT ALLOWANCE MONEY FOR THIS!

Instagram is still a great source of promotional information, as far as new music, video, or live show announcements.

I just don't see how it is sustainable, and I am envious of teens today, basically, for having this kind of access to music and artists.

Cinny said:

Back in the day you could sell a coffee table book of just photos of yourself.

They can still do that. Beatles photo books still come out all the time and The Jacksons released one a year or 2 ago.

MickyDolenz said:

Cinny said:

Well, I'd like to see a new artist try.

Those kinds of photo books came out many years later, not generally during their early days. There were teen magazines like Tiger Beat & Right On! that had pictures of popular singers or actors. The artists sold posters, t-shirts, dolls, games, & other kinds of merchandise, but not coffee table books. It was the really popular ones who had dolls. Journey was the first act to have a video game, back in the early 1980s. Some before them had a pinball machine, such as KISS or Elvis Presley.

But Weird Al made me laugh.

Micky is our longest lasting troll. lol

2freaky4church1 said:

Micky is our longest lasting troll. lol

I think you're the troll with your anti-Michael Jackson threads & posts

alphastreet said:

My friend who’s a singer released her single and showed her bare back as the cover. I shared a song of mine on the same day with no photo of me, and she got way more likes. I know my song is good enough, but I didn’t get the same number of likes and feel a bit down about it. But it shows me the double standards of people too, how image is everything but I’m not about it

So what if your friend got way more likes, what does that truly mean? I think people think way too much of getting likes on social media, when in reality, it means absolutely nothing, imo. I mean, who cares if someone that you don't even know, likes your posting or not? Will it change your life somehow if they do or don't? No one cares!

looby said:

^^I don't think you should feel insecure at all, and why would you think you made a fool of yourself?....you didn't! Getting likes or not getting them from unknowns on social media, should not make you feel like you're "not good enough". Just be and do you, and not look for validation, or judge yourself, from a like button from people that you don't even know.

looby said:

MickyDolenz said:

Cinny said:

Well, I'd like to see a new artist try.

Those kinds of photo books came out many years later, not generally during their early days. There were teen magazines like Tiger Beat & Right On! that had pictures of popular singers or actors. The artists sold posters, t-shirts, dolls, games, & other kinds of merchandise, but not coffee table books. It was the really popular ones who had dolls. Journey was the first act to have a video game, back in the early 1980s. Some before them had a pinball machine, such as KISS or Elvis Presley.

Yep. These magazines weren't free either. The all-page pinups and cover portraits were enough to sell a copy in a world without Instagram.

Now they post the magazine cover on Instagram and say "go buy it!" - why would they?

Cinny said:

Yep. These magazines weren't free either. The all-page pinups and cover portraits were enough to sell a copy in a world without Instagram.

Now they post the magazine cover on Instagram and say "go buy it!" - why would they?

Why do they sell magazines like Rolling Stone, People,Time, Vogue, etc. at Walmart & Barnes And Noble when they have websites where you can read them (in some cases for free)? Why do they sell CDs/records/DVDs when people can stream music or movies? Because there's still people who buy them.

I had a big collection of Vibe, The Source, and Rolling Stone but had to downsize after moving. I actually donated what I could to a local music store that resold periodicals.

Cinny said: