{"id":2994,"date":"2023-02-09T21:07:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T21:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=2994"},"modified":"2023-02-09T21:07:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T21:07:40","slug":"were-attractive-people-in-shorter-supply-in-the-60s-and-70s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/09\/were-attractive-people-in-shorter-supply-in-the-60s-and-70s\/","title":{"rendered":"Were attractive people in shorter supply in the 60s and 70s?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post isn’t going to make me any friends, but I suspect some of you have wondered the same thing. <\/p>\n

Mrs. C and I dance a lot, and at one of our regular dances, the DJ plays videos of the song along with the music. <\/p>\n

One thing is startlingly clear. There were a fair number of famous singers in the 60s and 70s who were not all that attractive. <\/p>\n

The internet makes it fairly obvious that there are a lot of beautiful, talented people in the world. So why were relatively unattractive people the big stars in the past? (At least in disproportionate numbers. Some of them were quite beautiful.) <\/p>\n

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  1. They didn’t care that the stars weren’t all that attractive. (Damned unlikely.)\n
  2. There really were fewer beautiful, talented people back them. (Maybe, but hard to believe.)\n
  3. Most people thought of chasing stardom as an illegitimate or immoral pursuit, so the pool of people who were willing to become stars was limited. <\/ol>\n

    What do you think? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This post isn’t going to make me any friends, but I suspect some of you have wondered the same thing. Mrs. C and I dance a lot, and at one of our regular dances, the DJ plays videos of the song along with the music. One thing is startlingly clear. There were a fair number … Continue reading “Were attractive people in shorter supply in the 60s and 70s?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}