The Beatles on Jack Paar

[uwe]

AutoTune, being a Country & Western role mole, working undercover for the Pentagon, rigging the Super Bowl and - shock, gasp, horror! - getting Swifties to vote, man, this psychological operative disguised as a woman does it all! One wonders when she finds the time to apply her trademark Soviet-Red lipstick?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/jan/31/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-super-bowl-rightwing-conspiracy-biden

[Ken]

https://pagesix.com/2024/01/31/entertainment/travis-kelce-congratulates-taylor-swift-for-making-super-bowl-in-rookie-year/

[uwe]

I'm for referring to them both comprehensively as Traylor from now on.

[Ken]

Haha.  That could go in some interesting directions.

[uwe]

Yup, rhymes with traitor ... some people would be having a (football) field day.

[Ken]

People would definitely go "Traylor Trash" on it.

[uwe]

She's not Britney! 

[Dave W]

Yeah, the bright red lipstick is just gross.

Traylor? Why not Tavis?

One of the mods over at MyLesPaul started calling her Trailer Hitch a couple of years back. That's stuck.

[uwe]

Besides being a Deep State Operative, she has billions if not trillions of bugs on her conscience, no joke.

https://www.preventivepesthouston.com/blog/2021/february/is-red-lipstick-made-from-bugs-/#:~:text=The%20female%20cochineal%20bugs%20are,resemble%20anything%20of%20its%20origin.

Probably only Paul Stanley beats her, he's been doing it for longer, not the Deep State work, the lipstick I mean.




https://www.gq.com/story/kiss-paul-stanley-makeup-face

[Dave W]

Paul Stanley is gross and creepy. Probably has been since infanthood.

[uwe]

Nope, I don't agree. He's a drama queen and clamoring for attention + validation, not unusual for a half-deaf kid with a disfigured ear ( ---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtia ) with insecurities that elevated himself to arena rock god status. But gross or creepy?







Stanley Bert Eisen seems very much the Inwood Hill/Upper Manhattan nice middle class Jewish kid to me. His mom Eva was German btw, born 1923 in Berlin, she and her parents and grandparents had to flee from Germany in 1935 and via Czechoslovakia and The Netherlands made it to the US in 1940, four months before Germany invaded The Netherlands. Talk about timely moves.

[Dave W]

Ugh. Even grosser and creepier than I thought. And why would I care about his disfigured half-deaf ear or his family background?

[uwe]

Because it might have to do something with the person he is/became? Just sayin'.

Not entirely sure what there is about Paul Stanley's persona to get worked up about. Always the guy with the still mass-compatible androgyny (yet steadfastly ungay) within Kiss, I find him entirely uncreepy. You can say "(i) His singing is affected and he yells too much. (ii) He prances around on stage. (iii) And his guitar playing is rudimentary." But other than that? For a person of his fame, his private life has been largely secluded and scandal-free.

And he's very humble. Weren't you the guy that joked about his use of the word 'okay' in Love Gun

I really love you, baby
I love what you've got
Let's get together
We can get hot

No more tomorrow, baby
Time is today
Girl, I can make you feel
Okay

as somewhat, well, understated? 

[4stringer77]

I suppose if you had a fear of clowns, that could cross over to making Kiss creepy. There was also the scene in that documentary where Stanley was in the bed with multiple women while being interviewed. I can see how that might creep some out. Not wearing a shirt on stage over the age of 50 seems a little creepy to me.

[Dave W]

No matter how many videos or pics you post, it's definitely not going to change my mind.