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Stockholm Of Beauty
Posted by Chris G on 5 January 2009 - 10:42pm.
Flicking through the latest edition I was struck by the band Baskery (pictured) and wondered:
Has there ever been an Ugly Swedish Popstar?
Most British bands have the odd stunner of either sex the rest of the band being knuckle dragging ex scaffolders or have a back line of acne plagued keyboarder prodders.
But your Swedes and fellow Nords seem to only allow Prada grade stunners to form bands*?
So examples please of any gender to prove or disprove this fag packet theory.
* this would all be academic if their music wasn't so good!
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Benny & Bjorn
Relax, girls, they’re spoken for
Not just Benny & Bjorn
Plenty more evidence here.
I think you being harsh on
I think you being harsh on Bjorn and Benny and I didn't say Mullet brandishing pig bothering show band members but POP STARS
fraser
that site is genius although we are sure it's not a conceptual art piece!
No idea what the translation of the title is
But if it was Chris De Burgh or Cliff in the picture, it would have been:
Foiled Again, or
Too Hot to Handle
Boringly,
it's : "A career in pictures".
Your suggestions were much better, Austin.
Hick
I so wanna join that band!
Norway
An old friend of mine lives there. I go visiting, we go out walking.
It's. Not. Just. The. Pop. Stars.
Oh my.
The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Mighty Swedish rock behemoth, somewhat deficient in the looks department.
"Somewhat deficient"...
is a very nice way of putting it. There are other ways, but I'm feeling charitable this morning.
Ouch!
That's harsh...! They should be every Word reader's favourite band, they certainly inspired my pseudonym anyway.
Re the original picture
Sorry to be churlish, but, whoa, stand back a bit, why doncha? Just what about these 3 girls in b&w face on is so outstanding? A sideways view might demonstrate some features less forgiven by the angle of view. They look like an amalgam of the less photogenic ones in Fanny/Bangles to me, depending on your wish. I suspect a tad too much growth hormone affecting the nosebridges and chins. Are they sisters, or does the one on the end park her bike in the chin cleft of the other 2?
Adonis P. Retropath (II)
I see plenty as attractive (and many more so) in our british streets and towns.
I think that's a good point
I think they're pleasant looking but not movie star attractive. The interesting thing is not so much the girls as the kind of picture it is. It sets out to present a simple, attractive image. The Scandinavians seem to have no difficulty with showing us what you might call their best side. From Abba to the Cardigans and beyond they are quite comfortable with the fact that if you're in the entertainment game at any level and you don't look like a bulldog chewing a wasp then you should make the most of it.
Yes, but Agnetha got a bit fed up with...
journalists continually writing about the perfection of her posterior and its repeated victory in 'Rear of the Year' contests.
Really?
One of the favourite hobbies of famous, beautiful women is complaining about how people *will go on* about how attractive they are.
It'll not be long then
until the lovely Lily Allen starts on that theme as well then. Oh the irony. I can't wait.
On the other hand
the colour pic in the magazine gives them a bit of a leg-over, er, I mean leg-up
And over the border in Denmark
Ms Tina Dico - grrrfnnnarrmmmbbbdrrribble
http://www.motorbar.co.uk/images/pix/cd_tinadico_portrait.jpg
And on the other foot
Having now heard 'em, twice, as they pop up also on Unshods Prison Songs compo this month, as well as on Words coverdisc, rather jolly good they sound too, alt country from the fyords.
Less of the sibilant S we normally hear from the norse, too, unlike Nina Perssons offering. (P.S. the last A Camp record had a cracking version of Lo(os)sing My Religion on it)