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The human embodiment of cool

  • 18-08-2020 5:35pm
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    So in this world of fake nobody "celebrities" who are famous for no apparently good reason whatsoever, who, alive or dead, is too cool for school?

    Taking into account we don't know these people and we can only go by the persona they project to the world.

    My number one would have to be David Bowie, just oozed charisma and coolness. Something almost extra human about him, almost like you wouldn't be surprised to hear he was an alien from another planet.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭mcsean2163


    Coolness to me is about generally restraining emotions, keeping ones head, dressed well, having great moves, comfortable alone and having great come backs.

    I love Bowie but wouldn't see him as cool, due to some of his expressiveness.

    James Dean smoking a cigarette, Martin sheen in badlands and Mickey Rourke in rumble fish. Cool. Jimi Hendrix is nearly cool but again his hippie/ drug stuff means he's not cool.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,419 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    David Attenborough.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,778 ✭✭✭✭fits


    Jacinda Ardern. Cool head.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,105 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Bowie certainly exuded pure coolness - always a step or two ahead of the rest in terms of his image and music. The master of re-invention.

    Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music - a contemporary of Bowie, always cool and sublime.

    Patti Smith, the “godmother” of punk - always did her own thing, seemed to eschew chart success in terms of her music. Never compromised. That image of her on the cover of her 1975 Horses album is iconic and was very ahead of its time.

    Debbie Harry of Blondie - in the limelight in the late 70s/early 80s but seemed to be able to keep her private life just that - private. Sassy. Stunning looking in her prime and had a touch of class.

    Grace Jones - another utterly original musician who did her own thing and was part of the 1970s/1980s zeitgeist of cool.

    The Eurythmics - Annie Lennox in particular. Her androgynous look in the Sweet Dreams video in 1983 helped define the look of that decade. Incredible soulful voice and one half of the finest pop act of the 80s.

    Andy Warhol - Pop artist extraordainre working out of New York in the 1960s and 1970s. Probably rather overrated, but growing up he seemed a pretty cool individual.

    Honorable mentions to:
    Tom Waits
    Lou Reed
    Portishead
    Alison Goldfrapp
    Bob Dylan
    Kraftwerk
    Leonard Cohen
    Kate Bush


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,875 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Jimi Hendrix
    George Clinton
    Dennis Coffey
    Bootsy Collins
    Betty Davis
    John Coltrane
    DJ Shadow
    DJ Craze
    DJ Numark
    Skratch Bastid


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    You are not cool if you are famous just for being on social media, instagram,or making a sex video
    etc
    You are cool if you make interesting creative work whether its art,music ,video, writing ,making games .
    trolling,insulting random people on facebook ,etc is not cool,
    being on facebook is not cool.
    Bowie was cool because he was constantly changing ,making new music,
    it was not always good but it was different from most other singers.
    i dont follow anyone on tik tok,
    but there are people who are really creative and funny there ,
    and there are people on there who are amazing dancers or comedians .
    TIK TOK is very popular because it provides video and audio tools that can be used by anyone to make amazing videos that are entertaining .
    I Think lady gaga is cool because she is talented and she keeps making
    new music ,
    she is original ,she is not trying to copy anyone else or just follow the latest trend .a talented singer or writer will create works that still
    will be listened too in 10 or 20 years .
    how many singers have 1 or 2 hit songs and then just disappear .
    i don,t see taylor swift or beyonce making ads for apple or coke
    because they are not sell outs .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭Tuco88


    Denzel Washington, Paul Newman and Steve McQueen.

    Matthew McConaughey is another guy who is naturally slick imo.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    Silvio Berlusconi .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭unhappys10


    mcsean2163 wrote: »
    I think you may need to define coolness a bit better.

    Coolness is about generally restraining emotions, keeping ones head, dressed well, having great moves, comfortable alone and having great come backs.

    I love Bowie but wouldn't see him as cool always due to some of his expressiveness.

    James Dean smoking a cigarette, Martin sheen in badlands and Mickey Rourke in rumble fish. Cool. Jimi Hendrix is nearly cool but again his hippie/ drug stuff means he's not cool.

    If you need coolness defined, you're not it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Andrea Pirlo.

    Class personified. Lads could learn a thing or two.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭unhappys10


    Harvey Keitel is another one along with Robert Duvall.
    Robert Redford also I think.
    Prince for sure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,828 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    Silvio Berlusconi .

    Bunga bunga.

    Glazers Out!



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    nullzero wrote: »
    Bunga bunga.

    The good old days


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,940 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Miles Davis or Jimi Hendrix.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,940 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Andrea Pirlo.

    Class personified. Lads could learn a thing or two.

    That penalty against England never gets old.


  • Posts: 5,518 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Christopher Walker, Morgan Freeman or Samuel L Jackson.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,808 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    riclad wrote: »
    i don,t see taylor swift or beyonce making ads for apple or coke
    because they are not sell outs .
    I just did a quick google.Taylor Swift has done a few ads for Diet Coke, and Beyoncé did one for Pepsi.

    Not cool... ;)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,599 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Ötzi the Iceman


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭adocholiday


    I always thought Tom Waits was the personification of cool in this video

    https://youtu.be/C49H3aWdiK8


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,774 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    Steve McQueen

    🙈🙉🙊



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭The Tetrarch


    John F Kennedy
    Lester Piggott
    Steve McQueen
    Nelson Mandela
    Yul Brenner
    James Coburn
    Kate Bush
    Audrey Hepburn


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    David Lynch


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,875 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Madlib
    Fela Kuti
    Bob Dylan
    Angela Davis
    Al Pachino
    Steve Irwin
    Albert Einstein


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Humphrey Bogart


    Micheal Martin or Jack Lynch many Corkmen


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭horseofstone


    River Phoenix


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭horseofstone


    Matt Dillon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭horseofstone


    Matt Dillon


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭unhappys10


    iamstop wrote: »
    Madlib
    Fela Kuti
    Bob Dylan
    Angela Davis
    Al Pachino
    Steve Irwin
    Albert Einstein

    Steve Irwin is a great one!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Gavin Lamb Murphy


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭BrianBoru00


    The Fonz


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Gruffalux


    Just to add some women to the mix, although I agree with lots of the aforementioned esp people like Tom Waits. Jeff Bridges if he has not been mentioned..It is funny though how we think first of men when it comes to cool.
    Chrissie Hynes.
    Nina Simone.
    Ruthie Foster.
    Alison Moyet.
    Tilda Swinton.
    Judi Dench.
    Helen Mirren.
    Joanna Lumley.
    Maria Doyle Kennedy is a person I have long thought of as cool
    Aayan Hirsi Ali.
    Camilla Paglia.
    Loads more.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Dj Stiggie


    mcsean2163 wrote: »
    Jimi Hendrix is nearly cool but again his hippie/ drug stuff means he's not cool.
    Hey, get a load of the narc!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 294 ✭✭markjbloggs


    Wim Hof is cool !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭veetwin


    Had the pleasure of meeting Leonard Cohen once. A gentleman to his fingertips. He had played a legendary gig in Kilmainham Castle a few years previously and we discussed how the gig had received cult status. He had just come off a long haul flight and was impeccably dressed in a 3 piece suit. That's even before his song writing is considered..


  • Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The Fonz. No, I'm not a slavish fan of "Happy Days" (will go straight over 95% of most boardsies' heads):

    Fonzie

    Take this scene from "Pulp Fiction" with Samuel L Jackson: (if you declare yourself a film buff and still have'nt watched this movie, then you're nont a film buff)

    Oh, and Samuel L Jackson too is the huma emboidemnt of cool.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvy4YH9--Vw


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭horseofstone


    Michelle Pfeiffer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Jeff Goldblum


  • Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Julia Roberts:

    Her role as Sonny Burnett's (Sonny Crockett believes he's a druglord) GF

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtL4U3oZhA0


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Noel Edmunds


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,105 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    In terms of actors, Steve McQueen is certainly up there.

    Kate Blanchett
    Hellen Mirren - like a fine wine, she got better and better with age
    Morgan Freeman
    James Dean
    Sidney Poitier
    Lauren Bacall


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Joanna Lumley (Purdey)

    Diana Rigg (Mrs Peel)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭unhappys10


    Can't quote 2 people as on mobile but how could I have forgotten Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer?!

    Kristen Scott Thomas
    Pheobe Waller Bridge
    Pierce Brosnan
    Idris Elba
    January Jones
    Ryan Gosling
    Daniel Craig
    Vin Diesel
    Sylvester Stallone

    Last but not far from least, Sean Connery.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,977 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    Oh, and Samuel L Jackson too is the huma emboidemnt of cool.

    Thanks to Pulp fiction he is the coolest man on the planet. The thing is when hes in a weak film he still gets a pass due to how cool he was in
    Pulp fiction


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 703 ✭✭✭Fuascailteoir


    Ian Brown, always had the swagger


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭i_surge


    riclad wrote: »
    You are not cool if you are famous just for being on social media, instagram,or making a sex video
    etc
    You are cool if you make interesting creative work whether its art,music ,video, writing ,making games .
    trolling,insulting random people on facebook ,etc is not cool,
    being on facebook is not cool.
    Bowie was cool because he was constantly changing ,making new music,
    it was not always good but it was different from most other singers.
    i dont follow anyone on tik tok,
    but there are people who are really creative and funny there ,
    and there are people on there who are amazing dancers or comedians .
    TIK TOK is very popular because it provides video and audio tools that can be used by anyone to make amazing videos that are entertaining .
    I Think lady gaga is cool because she is talented and she keeps making
    new music ,
    she is original ,she is not trying to copy anyone else or just follow the latest trend .a talented singer or writer will create works that still
    will be listened too in 10 or 20 years .
    how many singers have 1 or 2 hit songs and then just disappear .
    i don,t see taylor swift or beyonce making ads for apple or coke
    because they are not sell outs .

    Lady gaga, definition of a try hard.

    There needs to be an effortless nonchalance to it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 312 ✭✭Onshuh


    Leonard Cohen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭horseofstone


    Ronnie o sullivan, Sharon Stone


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    IMG_4898-768x1152.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,765 ✭✭✭4Ad


    Roisin Murphy...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Nita Strauss.


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