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    Beautiful Singers

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    A friend and I were talking about Madonna the other day, and I remarked that when Madonna first came on the scene, she wasn’t glamorous or considered ‘beautiful.’ She was kind of chubby in the cheeks and wore bright makeup and her clothes were all torn. But she did have charisma, and her own style, and sang fun (and in some cases, classic) songs. We started naming other famous female singers who couldn’t have doubled for models: Pat Benatar, Cindy Lauper, Debbie Gibson, Janet Jackson. Nowadays it seems the most popular female pop stars have to look like this sleek haired, leggy actress/singer/fashionista prototype. Is looking a particular way more important than it used to be? Is there less diversity in the music industry?

    I don’t know. If so, I can’t locate when in time this shift really took place - or what caused it. Music videos? Still, we felt nostalgic for the time when the beauty spectrum ranged from Suzanne Vega to Pebbles to Vesta.

    (photo of singer Vesta Williams, courtesy of The Vesta Williams Website. Vesta recently lost 100+ pounds and is now a size 6.)

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