{"id":1914,"date":"2009-01-08T02:05:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T07:05:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-08T13:51:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T13:51:02","slug":"which-artist-s-typical-publicity-shot-po","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/which-artist-s-typical-publicity-shot-po\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Artist’s Typical Publicity Shot Pose Has the Greatest Effect on You, Positive or Negative?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feel free to suggest your own typical publicity shot poses, but the ones that first come to mind for me are as follows:<\/p>\n

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Johnny Rotten’s psycho stare<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Prince’s come hither doe eyes<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I’ve always been pulled in by Rotten’s sinister stare no matter how much of a put-on it’s been. On the other hand, Prince’s doe-eyed Look is no more promising for me than the same Look Susanna Hoffs abused. Wonder if her mom ever said, “Susanna, your eyes are going to stick that way if you keep it up!” <\/p>\n

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(I have two friends who ran out on their own to see the Philadelphia debut of her movie, The Allnighter, only to see each other, sitting alone, in the nearly empty theater.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The following publicity shot pose, however, is the one that has the greatest effect on me:
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The Sparks guy with the Hitler mustache’s cocked head and “Do I shock you?” expression<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Despite not liking the band’s poor man’s Queen (at best) and proto-Pet Shop Boys (at worst)<\/a> music, this Mael guy’s Look is a dealbreaker of major proportions. I don’t know if there’s a dealbreaker in rock more severe for me that his publicity shot pose, not even Bob Stinson<\/a>‘s role in The Replacements nor the dreaded headless guitar and longcoat combo<\/a>. And trust me, I’ve got no beef with the Hitler mustache itself.<\/p>\n

Then there’s The King, an artist who may owe as much as 15% of his legendary career to the curled lip he whipped into action whenever a camera was around.<\/p>\n

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The Marilyn Monroe or Rock!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Brilliant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feel free to suggest your own typical publicity shot poses, but the ones that first come to mind for me are as follows: Johnny Rotten’s psycho stare Prince’s come hither doe eyes I’ve always been pulled in by Rotten’s sinister stare no matter how much of a put-on it’s been. On the other hand, Prince’s […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}