Okay. Anyone who loves my music can see me nude here.
Ah, I’ll bet I know exactly the picture you mean! The one by Gerard Malanga, right?
The one I was thinking of was the one in Vanity Fair a couple of years ago…kind of unsettling. Although I do own the issue (specifically for that reason, I’m not a regular VF reader!), and I gotta give props to the man for sheer nerve.
Rufus Wainwright nude … Oh, yeah.
Damn!! I’m so full of elephant shrew lust for you’re seething hot naked bod!! I really hope I don’t get fired for opening that at work, though.
A 12-month calendar that fell out of my copy of Interview a couple of years ago, from I think Absolut Vodka, included a shot of Rufus shirtless and half-mooning us. The lad was awfully skinny.
If we’re going to do jazz babes, then I’d have to go for Jane Monheit or, for a more unconventional choice, Susie Arioli. There’s something about a chick with glasses.
Jane Monheit is gorgeous. Although sax player Candy Dulfer is kinda cute (haven’t heard about her in years), and Norah Jones is extremely pretty.
And have you seen jump blues diva Lavay Smith, of the big band Lavay Smith and the Red Hot Skillet Lickers? She is very retro-glamorous, almost Bettie Page-esque. I’ve been lucky enough to see the band live, and to pose for a picture with the delicious Miss Smith.
I should distinguish between merely posing nude and posing nude for Playboy. As Astorian pointed out, actresses and singers who pose for Playboy are generally those whose careers are on sharp downward slopes. If not, they’re “flavors of the month” who’ll be quickly forgotten in few years (e.g, pick any female star of “Baywatch” besides Pam Anderson, who isn’t an actress anyway). Very rarely will you get someone like Bo Derek or Kim Basinger who’s appears in Playboy at the same time their career trajectory is moving upward. (Charlize Theron’s photos, by the way, were old modeling photos that Playboy acquired after she became famous.) And, even then, their credibility as performers was seriously undercut despite whatever talent they had. (Granted, in Derek’s case, there wasn’t much talent but, in Basinger’s case, it took 15 years and a career comeback before she earned enough respect in Hollywood to win an Oscar).
Right now, Neko Case is still a singer with a cult following. If she posed for Playboy, she would no doubt become more well known. But, to most people, it would be as “that girl who was naked in Playboy” and not for her music. I suspect that’s probably the real reason why she declined the offer.
I got to go out with, and see naked, a drop-dead gorgeous bassoonist once. Does that count?
Depends. Was it your bassoon?
Goodnight, folks! 
:smack: No no no no no! It was her bassoon! And, no, she didn’t bring it along with her when I went out with her. 
Well, guys, there IS a top female music star who’ll be appearing in Hef’s mag shortly:
Carnie Wilson!
Who says dreams never come true, huh?
Neko, on the other hand, won’t be appearing in Playboy. From an interview in the latest Entertainment Weekly: