When singers don't look like you expected them to look

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bradzilla: Oct 15, 2004

Dixville posted:

I was listening to They Might Be Giants and I was wondering if Don't Let's Start had a music video. Turns out it does and I was somewhat surprised, having never seen how they looked, that the singer looks nothing like I expected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAmFTmCs3IY
In fact, I had actually pictured him looking somewhat like the guitarist in this video. Kind of nerdy. I don't know why but I always have kind of a picture in my head of how a singer must look based on only their voice. It's usually wrong. Anybody else do this? Or notice that someone doesn't look like they would sound like they do?

that guy looks exactly like I'd expect tbh

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naem: May 29, 2011

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Alicia Bridges was one that threw me, she looks like she'd be more at home in a punk band than singing one of the biggest disco hits:

https://youtu.be/WGU_4-5RaxU

compare to blonde heart of glass 1978, notice the dance music/disco influence, and then realize that punk happened in 1979 it�s all closer than we might think

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Bodyholes: Jun 30, 2005

Lotta bands with a scrawny white singer who sounds like a beefy black man.

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precision posted:

I listened to The Dears for like, a decade without realizing the singer is black. I thought he was one of those "baroque" white Canadians

I went decades before I found out Bill Withers wasn�t white

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Convex posted:

does this count, certainly caught me out a bit in the pre-internet days

edit: I should add, learning later what vitiligo is made this much more understandable

Did mj actually have vitiligo though? I thought that was just used to hand wave his extreme skin lightening cosmetic choices?

# ? Dec 8, 2022 18:55

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