# Grace Jones..Did people find her sexy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127 "2014-04-27T19:10:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/41 "2014-04-28T03:25:19Z")
Straight male, remember her very well from the '80s, and no, I did not think she was the least bit sexy. Just scary as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/42 "2014-04-28T03:30:54Z")
> [@MrKnowItAll](#): > > Uh-huh. Okay, first of all remember, she’s European … > [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Top research there, fella. Well, in all fairness she _was_ born and raised in _Spanish Town_, Jamaica. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/43 "2014-04-28T03:43:39Z")
I don’t, but apparently Dolf Lungren did; he was an interesting guy. ---
**Author:** ![pseudograph](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pseudograph/32/19768_2.png) [@pseudograph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudograph)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/44 "2014-04-28T03:48:16Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > She’d be androgynus if she was wearing a pink dress. Irregardless of the rest of this debate, that is a great line. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/45 "2014-04-28T03:54:57Z")
I know nothing of her other than her performance as May Day in the Bond movie A View to a Kill, but I didn’t care for her at all. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/46 "2014-04-28T11:51:09Z")
Way back then, she came up in a conversation among my friends. The consensus among the guys was that while some found her attractive and some did not, all of them found her _llamativa_ - lit. attention-grabbing, riveting. She was different. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/47 "2014-04-28T12:51:24Z")
She was scary-sexy. As in, you know she can do some things you have never heard of, and do you want them? Maybe not, but she knows them. When rewatching A View to a Kill last year she didn’t actually seem all that masculine to me. She did to me as a child when watching the film, but now - well, lots of mainstream women are muscled like that and her face is definitely feminine. She’s just darker than usual and has short hair. I saw her at Glastonbury in 2006ish (I’m terrible with dates) and she put on a good show. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/48 "2014-04-28T13:20:07Z")
Not at all. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/49 "2014-04-28T13:24:00Z")
Horrible music Horrible acting Striking exotic look but not sexually appealing ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/50 "2014-04-28T13:35:28Z")
The picture that comes up when you Google her (to make sure I was remembering who we were talking about) is absolutely frightening, in an uncanny valley way. I think she could be attractive if she’s try to soften those fierce features. But she seemed to accentuate them. ---
**Author:** ![polar\_bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@polar\_bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polar_bear)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/51 "2014-04-28T13:35:58Z")
> [@chicagowhitesox1173](#): > > How many people saw her perform? I can’t imagine that being sold out. I saw her at a festival a few years ago; she was almost an hour late (which doesn’t really happen at festivals), dressed in victoria secret type of sexy dress… and the place was packed with twenty-somethings. If we’re together with that group it still comes up regularly, memorable to say the least. She isn’t hot at all, but confidence sure is alluring… but not sexually, in my case at least. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/52 "2014-04-28T14:15:59Z")
Interesting and watchable, yes. Sexy, no. :: shudder :: Not my type at all. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/53 "2014-04-28T14:36:51Z")
Yeah, she was hot – a bit scary-looking, but also sexy! ---
**Author:** ![Echo\_Charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Echo\_Charlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Echo_Charlie)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/54 "2014-04-28T14:56:12Z")
> [@chicagowhitesox1173](#): > > How many people saw her perform? I can’t imagine that being sold out. It was at a music festival in East London. She closed the show, so probably 30,000 people watching. Not bad for a 65-year-old lady wearing a series of funny hats. Ms Jones has a big gay following, obvs. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/55 "2014-04-28T15:30:01Z")
Obviously, SOMEBODY found her attractive, and SOMEBODY bought her records… but I never did and never knew anyone who did. I guess I just never travelled in the same circles as the people who thought her attractive or talented (or interesting). I always thought she got a lot more media attention than she warranted because she always hung out at all the chic discos and hotspots that the papparazzi frequented. REAL celebrities rarely or never went to such places, so the paparazzi made “stars” of the people who did. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/56 "2014-04-28T15:38:02Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I wasn’t publishing a fucking scientific study. I was anecdoting, which I wasn’t aware was frowned upon in CS. If I’d known that you’d personally moved the thread to GD with your mind I’d have acted accordingly. Dial it way back, pls., **jayjay**. Thanks, **twicks** ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/57 "2014-04-28T16:09:48Z")
I don’t find Jones sexually attractive, personally, but I do find her personally attractive. She strikes me as being a fun person to know, apart from her wealth and fame – she’s got a lot going on under that flattop of hers. And I also see how others might find her attractive. ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/58 "2014-04-28T16:18:59Z")
> [@MrKnowItAll](#): > > Uh-huh. Okay, first of all remember, she’s European _and_ she’s from the 80s. A lot of female stars from Europe looked like this back then, and many Americans as well. It’s part of the whole New Wave look, strongly influenced by music star fashions on MTV. Yes, she was pushing the envelope a bit further than most, but not much really. Lady Gaga is much more extreme today than Grace Jones was in her day. > > As for her slimness? Hey, that was in then. We were not that far out of the 70s, and undernourished was still considered vogue. She’s European…how again? She was born in Jamaica and spent her teen and early adult years in the US. She still retains US citizenship, although she lives mostly in Europe. Her singing was average. Her acting was terrible. Her looks were, at best, average for a woman. She did have a great deal of personality and stage presence and that’s what carried her through. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/59 "2014-04-28T17:05:11Z")
Grace Jones looks like a masculine Arsenio Hall. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127/60 "2014-04-29T00:08:50Z")
What? Nobody remembers the Date With Grace Jones skit from [In Living Color](http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eQopdEwzRj0)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-jones-did-people-find-her-sexy/687127.md?page=4)