I saw Ann Wilson interviewed and she said it was about this music industry guy, and idiot journalist, who she was pissed off at. Prior to her seeing him at a party, she and her sister Nancy had been talked into posing topless (only from the shoulders up), back to back to each other, for the cover of an album. I have the CD but can't think of the name just now. It has "Crazy on You" and "Dreamboat Annie" on it. Later taboid headlines screamed crap like "Lesbian sisters! blah, blah." Anyway, at this party the jerk asked her how her lover was. She replied that Mike (her boyfriend at the time and also THE "Magic Man") was doing fine, etc. And the jerk said, "No, I mean your sister, your lesbian lover." Of course Ann blew up and she immediately after wrote "Barracuda" as a response to the experience -- probably not just of the jerk's insensitive comments, but the whole way their handlers were trying to package Heart, and the subsequent insaneness of the press's response to the album cover. Unfortunately, their physical attributes were always ever after brought into play instead of just the incredble music! Their handlers tried to exploit their good looks and then when Ann gained weight, that's all people could see even though she still had the same voice and musicianship she had before. I think people can't handle women in power a lot of the time and try to ruin it by putting it all down to looks and physical traits when everyone knows they have so much more inside -- no matter what the outside looks like -- good or bad -- and by whose standards of beauty anyway? Ann and Nancy ran that band and were the driving force creatively. Who can even remember the name or face of any of the GUYS in that band? Oh, except for the one guy that Nancy dumped, the former drummer I think, and we've seen him in interviews whining about it! It's probably not fair to those guys really that they didn't get any publicity while their management was always trying to push the image of the beautiful sisters. When you first heard the band Heart come on the radio, you heard the music, and you had no idea what they looked like did you? It's the same with all music you love, it transcends the physical and takes you to someplace deep inside yourself that it touches.
@zengirl41 Come on man, don't pretend that everyone doesn't know what beauty is. The Wilson sisters had it and the record company knew how to sell it. The rumor stuff is gross, but everyone knows sex sells, and fat doesn't.
@zengirl41 Come on man, don't pretend that everyone doesn't know what beauty is. The Wilson sisters had it and the record company knew how to sell it. The rumor stuff is gross, but everyone knows sex sells, and fat doesn't.
I saw Ann Wilson interviewed and she said it was about this music industry guy, and idiot journalist, who she was pissed off at. Prior to her seeing him at a party, she and her sister Nancy had been talked into posing topless (only from the shoulders up), back to back to each other, for the cover of an album. I have the CD but can't think of the name just now. It has "Crazy on You" and "Dreamboat Annie" on it. Later taboid headlines screamed crap like "Lesbian sisters! blah, blah." Anyway, at this party the jerk asked her how her lover was. She replied that Mike (her boyfriend at the time and also THE "Magic Man") was doing fine, etc. And the jerk said, "No, I mean your sister, your lesbian lover." Of course Ann blew up and she immediately after wrote "Barracuda" as a response to the experience -- probably not just of the jerk's insensitive comments, but the whole way their handlers were trying to package Heart, and the subsequent insaneness of the press's response to the album cover. Unfortunately, their physical attributes were always ever after brought into play instead of just the incredble music! Their handlers tried to exploit their good looks and then when Ann gained weight, that's all people could see even though she still had the same voice and musicianship she had before. I think people can't handle women in power a lot of the time and try to ruin it by putting it all down to looks and physical traits when everyone knows they have so much more inside -- no matter what the outside looks like -- good or bad -- and by whose standards of beauty anyway? Ann and Nancy ran that band and were the driving force creatively. Who can even remember the name or face of any of the GUYS in that band? Oh, except for the one guy that Nancy dumped, the former drummer I think, and we've seen him in interviews whining about it! It's probably not fair to those guys really that they didn't get any publicity while their management was always trying to push the image of the beautiful sisters. When you first heard the band Heart come on the radio, you heard the music, and you had no idea what they looked like did you? It's the same with all music you love, it transcends the physical and takes you to someplace deep inside yourself that it touches.
@zengirl41 Come on man, don't pretend that everyone doesn't know what beauty is. The Wilson sisters had it and the record company knew how to sell it. The rumor stuff is gross, but everyone knows sex sells, and fat doesn't.
@zengirl41 Come on man, don't pretend that everyone doesn't know what beauty is. The Wilson sisters had it and the record company knew how to sell it. The rumor stuff is gross, but everyone knows sex sells, and fat doesn't.