In the ongoing babe-ification of the Western world, welcome to this week’s episode: Classical Babes 2.0. I’m referring, of course, to “Too Hot to Handel,” a current feature on the online arts and entertainment segment of Playboy.
Sexing up classical music certainly isn’t anything new. I can remember a Beethoven LP cover from the 1970s that featured a nude model holding two strategically placed Beethoven busts. To this day, I can’t remember if that was the album with a whole bunch of Beethoven piano variations, or the one with works like the Choral Fantasy and Creatures of Prometheus. But that cover, I’ll never forget.
As for this current contest from Playboy, I can’t decide whether to laugh or cry or groan (the thing is filled with hideously awful puns). Yes, it’s a vote-for-your-fave-classical-babe contest. read more
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