ABSTRACT
It might be a truism to say that the visualization of pop has fetishized music and reinforced the body's coding. Very obviously, this has to do with the pop artist's own responses to musical style. With few exceptions, the body has spectacularized movement and mannerism through musical style. This chapter considers what fuels the tropes of behaviour associated with the dandy figure. Much of the valorization of individuality, as the author already implied, appears in productions that are regulated for commercial enterprise. Vocal intimacy is achieved through the emotive pull of auditory experience, mirroring the artist close-up as it promises corporeal intimacy. Aspects of innuendo, spoof and double entendre in performance involve dialogue and characterization. Bryan Ferry's chameleon approach to switching voices on the first glam track ever is an instance of virtuosity in itself. Stereotypical iconography has its parallel in the musical coding, returning us to the question of individual agency through masking.
