Too Much Porn in Music?

Lots of great comments on the last blog Does Porn = Divorce.

Here is another question for you.  Is there too much porn in music?

I read an article this morning about Adele and her success. I posted just a bit of the article below.

Musicians have experimented with their sexual image since time immemorial: David Bowie’s make-up, Madonna’s Sex book, Elvis’s hip pop, Patti Smith’s androgyny – these were artists offering genuine subversion and titillation.

By contrast, there is something perfunctory about Nicole Scherzinger’s writhing, Christina Aguilera’s thrusting. Porn is an imitation of sex and the pornification of pop is a surrogate for authentic sexuality.

Sex has always sold, and the sexualisation of female (and male) artists is nothing new. What is new is the pornification of music. Pornification, or porn culture, is the infiltration of pornography into mainstream society.

 

Porn masquerades as sex, pop masquerades as porn – and something real is lost. Pop music should be exciting and reactionary. Porn has become so utterly mainstream that wearily adhering to this tired standard is, in the end, drearily conservative – and horribly tedious.

What do you think?