Line #59 MrFanservice/Music


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7	%%* Music/DavidBowie. Just, David Bowie. [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Even the guys]] wanted [[StupidSexyFlanders him]].
8	* [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis "the Pelvis" Presley]] is the TropeCodifier in pop and rock music. The sheer amount of sex appeal he was known for projecting on stage, and the sheer number of adoring female (and male) fans, was enough to make the FBI call him ''"[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_files_on_Elvis_Presley a danger to the security of the United States]]."''
9	* Music/YoshikiHayashi. He tends to write a fair amount of lyrics that are either heavily [[IntercourseWithYou sexual]] or {{angst}}y, is [[BiggerIsBetterInBed well-endowed]], poses shirtless a lot, has done bondage performances with himself as a submissive being dominated by women on stage and several BDSM or {{Gorn}} themed photoshoots...and those aren't even counting the ones where he's in the shower, nude, or in pants with a crotch two sizes too small. Also has at some points had a sizable SlashFic fandom and bisexual and gay ([[IfItsYouItsOK and some straight]]) men are among the GroupieBrigade. That and he looks to be in his early 30s despite being 15 years older than that.
10	* The Rum Tum Tugger from ''Theatre/{{CATS}}'' (in-show). All the lady-cats actually had a Squee moment during the character's song, although most of the male cats did have their share of female cats interested in them.
11	* Music/{{Rammstein}}: While everyone in the band could qualify, a special mention goes to the singer, Till Lindemann. That deep voice, very tall and muscular body usually left shirtless or clothed in tight black leather, and ''really'' comfortable with doing male-on-male scenes. Rammstein fans know this. Massachusetts knows this. ''Flake'' knows this.
12	** Lead guitarist Richard Z. Kruspe is also especially noticeable. Muscular body. Close-fitting clothes. Hypnotic steel-grey eyes. And if all of that isn't enough, his video for Emigrate song "New York City" is pure fanservice (with a bonus fetish collar).
13	* Sean "Slug" Daley of the hip-hop group Atmosphere has a lot of female fans. A * lot* of female fans.
14	* Music/{{Drake}}. His musical persona and slightly PrettyBoy appearance helps this.
15	* {{Music/Justin Bieber}} played up the fanservice during his adult career; he appears shirtless and/or soaked in most of his music videos and concerts, has become an underwear model, and has been caught in several "accidental" situations by the paparazzi that have involved him being caught in public either nude or very, very close to it.
16	* Oliver Sykes from Music/BringMeTheHorizon.
17	* Der Tod from ''Theatre/{{Elisabeth}}''. Particularly as played by Uwe Kröger
18	* Sting from The Police in the video for "Don't Stand So Close To Me". I mean, why else would he have taken his shirt off?
19	** Which prompts the thought: no wonder his student's hot for him ...
20	** This may wall have kickstarted some women's puberty. It was either this, his solo video for "Fortress Around Your Heart", or Sting in the Flying Underpants in DUNE.
21	* Michael Hutchence of INXS was one in a big way in the late 80s. Just take a look [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luobOzreRq4 at their videos]].
22	* Peter Steele of Music/TypeONegative. Doesn't help he posed for Playgirl.
23	* Steve Bays of Music/HotHotHeat, judging by Facebook groups such as "Steve Bays Is My Sexy Tight Pants God". It might be the [[WildHair crazy, curly hair]] or the tortured singing. It's something, for sure, judging by girls at the band's concerts.
24	* {{Music/Usher}}'s musical career is a one-man WalkingShirtlessScene/
25	* Wayne Newton ''still'' gets panties thrown on stage at his concerts.
26	* Christian Kane. Have you been to one of his concerts? 90% of the fans there are female.
27	* Pick a J-rock band. ''Any'' J-rock band.
28	* Similarly, pick ''any'' K-pop boyband. Music/DongBangShinKi, Music/SuperJunior, Music/{{SHINee}}... most of them are also {{Bishonen}} to boot.
29	** How about let's just name any and every BoyBand that's existed?
30	* Billy Ray Cyrus at his peak. Music/DollyParton literally wrote a song about how hot he is. WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows speculated that Music/MileyCyrus' sexually explicit persona and scandalous antics are just an imitation of her father.
31	* Music/DoctorSteel seems to invoke this sort of response in a great number of women, especially when he takes his shirt off. Doesn't mind a number of scantily-clad nurses and scouts assisting him, either.
32	* 2D of {{Music/Gorillaz}} was intentionally picked by Murdoc to be the PrettyBoy frontman. 2D's original bio described him thus: "Voice like an angel, arse like a satsuma." In-universe, it works great.
33	* Damon Albarn of Music/{{Blur}} used to be one intentionally [[http://www.tattletart.com/wp-content/2007/12/damon-albarn.jpg in the nineties]]. But he [[http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Gorillaz+Visits+Fuse+TV+LNiMoP88Vj4l.jpg still]] pretty much is one.
34	* Music/{{Apocalyptica}} actively plays to this trope, most often [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf2aIVKp1OY&feature=related playing on stage shirtless]] just to please the fangirls. This was particularly evident with Eicca in the early days, though he's put his shirt back on and [[http://www.juhaseila.com/Apocalyptica/slides/Jk20050415_000105.jpg Perttu]] [[http://6a.img.v4.skyrock.net/6a8/apocalyptica-pix/pics/1605162276_small.jpg Kivilaakso]] has [[http://www.beat-a-go-go.com/story/2009/1/11/174345/700 taken the role]] (observe how the interviewer introduces him).
35	* Jared Leto from 30 Seconds to Mars.
36	* Adam Levine from Music/{{Maroon 5}}. Did a shirtless clip [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQsK9WzDiuM dancing like the former-Mr.Fanservice-britsh-rocker Mick Jagger]]
37	* David Draiman from Music/{{Disturbed}}. [[TheSmartGuy Clever and well-spoken]], TroubledButCute, deep, masculine voice and a hint of scariness. The [[LargeHam/{{Music}} hamminess]] helps.
38	* {{Music/Nick Jonas}}. Starting with his solo career.
39	* Pretty much ''everyone'' in Music/{{McFly}}.
40	* Music/{{Gackt}}'s appearance in Japanese drama Fuurin Kazan was expected to increase young adult female viewers. What they didn't anticipate was that he also drew in 40+ year old female fans as well.
41	** Heck, this is part of the reason he and his songs keep appearing in so many video games, animes and TV shows. His appearances in such media often results in a boost in ratings, viewer ship, and sales. He's ''that'' popular.
42	* Everyone in Music/PanicAtTheDisco, though Brendon Urie and Ryan Ross (before the split) stand out.
43	** Ryan had so many fangirls that in the split they lost a significant amount of their fans.
44	** Brendon has actually been stripping on stage as of late.
45	** The music video for Girls/Girls/Boys is the embodiment of this trope. If Brendon is wearing pants, they aren't visible to the camera. Said camera spends the song zooming in and out to show off his face and body. At one point, it slowly pans down from his face to his chest and stops just below his bellybutton.
46	* In the video for Music/MyChemicalRomance's song "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)", rhythm guitarist Frank Iero kisses frontman Gerard Way on the cheek, thus catering to the popular "Frerard" ship between the two.
47	* Kino frontman Music/ViktorTsoi was.
48	* Koshi Inaba from Music/{{Bz}}: even in his fifties, he still regularly appears in Japanese sexiest man polls. Recenly he was voted 7th in a Japanese male artist with the greatest body poll. Note that he's one of the two in the poll who is above 40, the other one is 41 while the rest is below 40.
49	* {{Music/Voltaire}} - Most of their fanbase is female. Just look at them.
50	* Pretty much anyone who can play [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAOxCqSxRD0 this]].
51	* Music/{{Eminem}}, especially in the video for "3Am", during which he spends most of the video shirtless.
52	* Music/LinkinPark's late frontman Chester Bennington was notable for showing off his tattoos as well as lean build in a majority of the band's music videos and concert performances.
53	* Music/{{KISS}} frontman Paul Stanley.
54	* Shayne Ward (the second winner of Series/TheXFactor) was hunky to begin with, but he [[http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/53503851/Shayne+Ward+Gotta+Be+Somebody+PNG.png showed]] [[http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/69461728/Shayne+Ward+PNG.png a]] [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nw8fcHV1bdE/TQdzEOVenCI/AAAAAAAAIos/pjDZJHJig84/s400/Shayne+Ward+naked+Cosmopolitan.jpg lot]] [[http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/54993993/Shayne+Ward++Obsession+TV+Ad.jpg of]] [[http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/51990903/Shayne+Ward+Obsession+PNG.png skin]] during his third album era.
55	* Though Jonny Greenwood pretty swiftly emerged as Ladies Choice in Music/{{Radiohead}} - with his floppy hair, chiseled cheek bones and apparent ability to play any instrument he lays his hands on - it's never stopped fellow guitarist Ed O'Brien from trying. In the early days he sported some fairly over the top shirts and classic rock star moves, but over time this has been tamed to just some well fitting t-shirts, tousled hair and rock-star stubble. It tends to come across more hunky-Dad-on-a-school-run than International-Rock-Star, but he works it. Or at least did until later.
56	* This trope is the entire basis of the singing career of Music/{{Fabian}}.
57	* Bono during Music/{{U2}}'s Zoo TV era: [[http://youtu.be/hH8bnSQ8mR0 leather pants, crotch shots, falsetto vocals, and gratuitous moaning]].
58	* Pretty much all female Music/MikePatton fans agree that the man is not only scorching hot, but he seems to be getting better with age.
59	* Music/TearsForFears: {{Pretty Boy}}s Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith rarely expose a lot of skin, but there are several noteworthy exceptions.
60	** Early in their career, the band posed [[https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47935832078_0dc722c035_o.jpg shirtless]] for a photo shoot.
61	** In "[[https://streamable.com/sx91c2 The Way You Are]]" music video, Orzabal is dressed in a crop top, so his midriff is on full display.
62	** Orzabal is bare-chested for most of the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE6aevyJaIQ I Believe (A Soulful Re-Recording)]]" music video, to the point of being a WalkingShirtlessScene.
63	** Not to be outdone, Smith did a photo session in a swimming pool where he's half-naked ''and'' [[SexySurfacingShot dripping wet]] that capitalized on his status as [[https://i.imgur.com/CxRbRKR.jpg a sex]] [[https://i.imgur.com/jvTJcAN.jpg symbol,]] and one magazine's [[https://i.imgur.com/KevNYBu.jpg caption]] even laments, "[Curt is] wet with the tears of fans who found out he's (sob) married."
64	** As you can see in [[https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49413854928_4dddf9760a_o.jpg this magazine's picture,]] Smith has shapely legs GenderInvertedTrope for a man, and his [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/c1f146aa18dbadc62da4f4cb88b7ec10/tumblr_mpsoveKtTQ1sr0850o1_1280.jpg shorts]] were on the [[https://i.imgur.com/dw8OeLi.jpg shorter]] [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/85/11/8a/85118a17463a93cd6f0146742800f59b.jpg side]] to show them off. Even Orzabal confessed that he [[EatingTheEyeCandy enjoyed]] [[EvenTheGuysWantHim watching]] "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t50wSqF09A&t=5m11s Curt jogging every morning with his hairy legs and shorts, all smiley and handsome.]]"
65	* Music/JoshGroban, the poster boy of the Classical Crossover genre.
66	* Music/BlueStahli has a huge amount of female fans that consider him beautiful, [[EvenTheGuysWantHim guys too.]]
67	* Teemu Mäntysaari, guitar player for Wintersun. Long, luxurious dark brown hair, soft brown eyes, lean muscular figure...
68	* Vocalist of Finnish folk-metallers Turisas, Mathias 'Warlord' Nygård. Long hair, icy blue eyes, six-pack, and hipbones a male model would kill for.
69	* All of Music/OneDirection, but specifically Liam and Harry
70	* The video for "Quit Playing Games" by the Music/BackstreetBoys is pure fanservice.
71	* {{Music/Trey Songz}}.
72	* R&B traditionalist D'Angelo struggled with his own status as such, especially after addiction and weight gain undid it. His comeback album gently parodies the whole thing.
73	-->''"So if you're wonderin' what kind of shape I'm in,''
74	-->''I hope it's not my abdomen you're referring to..."''
75	* [[Music/MarianasTrench Josh Ramsay]], although apparently [[IAmNotPretty he doesn't think so]]. He comes out in his underwear at one point in the music video for "Desperate Measures".
76	* {{Music/Nicco}} is known for being shirtless, given his chest and biceps are huge. He has a habit of showing all this to the camera.
77	* Tim Cappello is a multi-instrumentalist and composer, but is probably most frequently recognized for his shirtless, oiled-up saxophone performance in ''Film/TheLostBoys''. He also worked with Music/TinaTurner and showed up (shirtless again) in the video for [[Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome "We Don't Need Another Hero"]].
78	* Creator/RossLynch from R5 and The Driver Era, a lot of behind the scenes videos seem to be filmed when he's been dressed in no more than small, tight boxers briefs. One of their music videos also has his emerge from a hot tub in small, wet, nearly see through white underpants. He also has a habit of performing on stage whilst shirtless while dancing suggestively
79	* Leigh Kakaty from Pop Evil cranks this up to the point of appearing with no visible covering except body paint in the "Deal With the Devil" video.
80	* Nuno Bettencourt from Music/{{Extreme}}. And as seen [[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/647251777666632377/ here]], his good looks have held up remarkably well with age.
81	* The [[HairMetal glam metal]] scene of the [[TheEighties 80's]] had many LongHairedPrettyBoy type musicians of this calibre (usually the frontmen, but others, like Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt as mentioned above, also qualify), but who takes the cake in this regard? [[Music/BonJovi Jon Bon Jovi]], whose athletic build, charming smile, stage presence (especially his tendency to wear navel-deep clothes exposing his chest and booty shake) and long locks have endeared him to women everywhere, even to when his [[ImportantHaircut hair got cut shorter]] and [[SilverFox gotten grey]], even though he's [[OlderThanTheyLook managed to age very well]].
82	* Most NewWave & NewRomantic bands of [[TheEighties the 80's]] were [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys full of gorgeous men]] to fit anyone's proclivities, from {{Pretty Boy}}s to [[DudeLooksLikeALady gender-bending beauties]]:
83	** Pete Burns from Music/DeadOrAlive, whose [[LongHairedPrettyBoy long black locks]] only added to his sexiness. Also had a great tendency to pose [[https://prnt.sc/nera7s half-naked]] or [[https://prnt.sc/neradw showing off his butt]].
84	** [[https://prnt.sc/nerbcy Every single]] member of Music/DuranDuran.
85	** Music/{{Marilyn}}, [[https://prnt.sc/nerbjw a Marilyn Monroe lookalike]], who, unfortunately, was [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer bullied by others]] for this fact growing up.
86	** [[https://prnt.sc/p6g7gj Adam Ant]] from Music/AdamAndTheAnts. He was once voted the sexiest man in America, after all.
87	** [[https://prnt.sc/nera1z The members]] of Music/AHa.
88	** Both Roy Hay & [[https://prnt.sc/ner9qr George O'Dowd]] from Music/CultureClub, although George didn't [[IndifferentBeauty sell himself on his attractiveness]], instead focusing on dressing as bizarrely as possible. [[https://prnt.sc/no4yoe Roy was very cute when he wanted to be]].
89	** [[https://prnt.sc/ngwvk1 The little-known]] Australian band Music/PsuedoEcho.
90	** [[https://prnt.sc/p6gawt Philip Oakey]] from Music/TheHumanLeague, albeit a [[DudeLooksLikeALady highly confusing]] one.
91	** [[https://prnt.sc/no4qrh David Sylvian]] from Music/{{Japan}}, to the point where he was voted "the most handsome man in the world"[[note]]Interestingly enough, David himself wasn't [[SoBeautifulItsACurse too fond of this]], as he wanted to be taken seriously as a musician and not a PrettyBoy idol[[/note]]. [[https://prnt.sc/p6gmzo His brother Steve]] as well.
92	** [[https://prnt.sc/obg5p7 Steve Strange]] from Music/{{Visage}}.
93	** [[https://prnt.sc/11vxuu8 Midge Ure]] from Music/{{Ultravox}} definitely qualified when he was younger; it was half the reason why the band was popular amongst the younger side of the fanbase.
94	** [[https://prnt.sc/11vwekx Ricky Gervais]] (!!!) from Music/SeonaDancing.
95	** [[https://prnt.sc/1y32klk Alan & Dave]] from Music/DepecheMode; Dave's good looks were invoked several times by the band, such as on this [[https://prnt.sc/1y37gku 1985 Japanese tour book page]] where's he outright ''referred to'' as sexy, but strangely, Alan's [[IndifferentBeauty weren't]] despite him being more attractive.
96	** [[https://prnt.sc/1y3csus Ian McCulloch]] from Music/EchoAndTheBunnymen, despite his post-punk roots.
97	** [[https://prnt.sc/1y34r4n Roddy Frame]] from Music/AztecCamera.
98	** Hell, this trope was so true of this era, it even applied to groups no one's ever even ''heard'' of: the extremely obscure band Music/{{Paparazzi}} had [[https://prnt.sc/ngws3x quite the attractive group of members]], despite only making two singles, with four songs combined in total, and a [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D7MYkO9zTXs singular music video]], before vanishing after 1984. [[https://youtu.be/ebqinai4_AQ Listen]] [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yI0Lu6m4IgA to]] [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yEks1XwLNB4 their]] [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=obIf6RQp8TQ tracks]], and weep for WhatCouldHaveBeen...
99	* The video for the Underdog Project's song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7drvhZwPcs "Summer Jam"]] has lots of shots of women in string bikinis and microshorts, but it also has plenty of shots of shirtless musclemen working out and playing basketball.
100	* Music/ShawnMendes has shown a lot of skin in the later stages of his career, appearing shirtless in his videos for songs like Treat You Better, Lost In Japan, Senorita and Summer Of Love. The video for Wonder also features Mendes running around in just a vest which then gets soaking wet and exposes his abs.

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