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Aaaaanyway....

Back to the music (please)?

'She's very wonderful...'

Well, yes, actually, she is.

I thought the pianist did a marvellous job (surely it's a difficult piece to play and he had one hell of a distraction....!), but I was less convinced by the orchestral backing, too many deep woodwinds and not enough subtle viola strings, flute and oboe, but for a live performance by some session musicians unfamiliar with her work, it's pretty damn good. I'm sticking with the single cut, even if I don't own a copy of it (damn, damn!)

And I've not managed to mention her once. Can I say anything that hasn't been said by thousands on these boards before, except what a beautiful human being - the word sublime was never so well chosen. Am I alone in finding her performances so moving that I can honestly say I find nothing sexual in them at all?

It is 10,000x purer than that - just ravishing beauty on so many aural, visual, intellectual, emotional and even spiritual levels that leaves me having to remember how to breathe all over again....

And USA didn't fall completely and madly in love with her after that? Well, I wash my hands of them then - and just when I was just beginning to like them again.

OK fair enough - seeing a new performance of TMWTCIHE probably damaged my ability to express myself.

If I used the word 'pure', it probably reveals a northern English upbringing which was influenced by a protestant nonconformist attitude towards displays of sexuality. I don't think it was the right word - sublime, mesmeric, transcendent would all have been much better words to choose.

KT is far better at expressing an honest and measured attitude towards sex than anyone else (though usually through a character in a song) which is why she's a great artist and I'm not.

While I'm sure many people on this board feel (quite justifiably) unashamed of expressions of sexual feelings towards KT's physical appearance, I find that reactions to her art that begin and end with a sexual response to be fairly inadequate. Sex can be pure, but personally I'm not convinced that getting sexual satisfaction from staring at images on a screen is. Equally though, sex can be debasing, degrading and down-right demeaning - just as almost any human activity can be.

I know that many people look at KT's videos (or even hear her music) and go 'cor, I wouldn't mind waking up next to that...', but for some reason that simply doesn't occur to me. I'm just hypnotised by her in a way that no other popular artist can manage. I find her performances no more sexually arousing than I would listening to great music, reading a good novel or walking in beautiful countryside.

If that all makes me deeply repressed, well, ya-boo-sucks to Dr Freud, 'cos then I'm repressed and happy and you don't need therapy if you're happy.