Shirley Bassey ‘Horrified’ By Today’s Stars

Dame Shirley Bassey doesn’t approve of how today’s pop stars dress and behave.

“It is like they are all in competition with each other,” she said. “Who can wear the skimpiest outfit? I mean come on. These young girls are talented singers, they don’t need that, but they feel they have to be in competition to have the least covering. That’s the saddest thing.”
It was duly pointed out that Shirley, 78, had spent most of her career in a fleshy haze of sequins and boas. Yet the difference wasn’t hard to spot. Her targets – identified as the likes of Beyoncé and Rihanna – strip off to attract attention, and because their agents tell them to. Shirley’s stage outfits speak precisely to the mood, tone and mischief of her songs.

“So let me get right to the point. I don’t pop my cork for every man I see.”

You can’t sing that in a nun’s habit. Dame Shirley, of course, comes from a time when glamour had a different meaning. “I think you have to leave a lot to the imagination,” she said. “Yes, my act was sexy and my dress had slits down to here, but I left a lot to the imagination. I didn’t show everything.”

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.