Quote Originally Posted by Karen Nathan View Post
Maybe I should lead by example and start talking about Christopher Cross again, since this thread is about Christopher Cross.

To the Posters who mentioned that Christopher Cross wasn't all that good looking and wondered why Christopher's videos had a lot of closeups on his face while he sang into a microphone, my theory is that Christopher's face was a main focus in his videos despite not being all that good looking was to highlight his singing abilities. He was very normal and average Joe looking and just looked like someone who worked in construction, his gimmick was his talent, not how good looking he was. Robert Palmer also had that average Joe looking to him and he was a major superstar. Sometimes, the music industry did shady things and have pretty models lipsynch the REAL Singer(Who is average looking) and have the general public thinking the pretty models were the ACTUAL singer. Martha Walsh filed a lawsuit that changed the music industry. She sang the chorus and backing vocals on CC Factory "Everybody Dance Now!' But the music industry hired some young Model who was roughly half Martha's age sing Martha's parts and Martha was SHOCKED to see they had this young, pretty, model lip sync all of Martha's parts for the music video and she sued and won and npw everyone who sings on a song gets proper credit.
Perhaps all the closeups were to hide the fact that he was shitting on the studio floor.