Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!CLUTX.CLARKSON.EDU!franceee From: franceee@CLUTX.CLARKSON.EDU ("Eric France,,,") Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Riddle me this... Message-ID: <1990Feb6.221736.29404@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Date: 6 Feb 90 22:17:36 GMT References: <1990Feb6.144703.14944@axion.bt.co.uk> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: franceee@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY Lines: 33 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu "Nick @ The End of Time" will probably get flamed for asking: > Many moons ago, a friend of mine asked: "If _Kate_ got married, would she > loose most of her fans?" We'd just seen the Hammersmith Show on TV, and my > friend had noticed the proportion of males in the audience. > > This question was asked 10 years ago, but I've not been able to come to any > satisfactory answer. > > Over to you! > > > #include > "And the sandcastle virtues are all swept away..." Neat quote. Think I'll take a stab at this: I can't speak for the rest of the LH crowd (and I'm not sure I'd want to if I could! ;), but what I like about KT is the effect her music has on *me*, and this has (a lot) more to do with the quality of her music than how she looks (or how unmarried she is). So, I would say that she could not lose me as a fan if she got married. Now, if the quality of her musical output were to plummet dangerously immediately following her marriage (as Billy Joel's did, IMHO), then I may or may not continue to purchase everything she records; however, this would have no effect on the quality of the music she has already recorded. It would be a good test of the effect of the loyalty factor...... Eric France franceee@clutx.clarkson.edu __ "You never understood me, you never really tried...." -- |<