very attractive but...

Don't think so.

I am a Gen Xer so I am to young to live through the times, but it seems to me that for most serious female singers of that era, playing into your sexuality would take away from the sound and authenticity of the group,which is what it was all about.

Blondie, Madonna and MTV changed all that.

as Redsfan pointed out, the music of her era was more than being sexy looking and acting. The Jefferson Airplane's music covered a wide range of human emotion and intellect as well. She encapsulated a natural sexiness that worked for its time.

I thought she looked and sounded pretty sexy on stage, but I don't think she really emphasized it. Or downplay it for that matter. She just did her thing, man.

Madonna was not the first to sexualize her performances but she surely made it mainstream. She for sure impacted fashion for young women and made spandex everyday wear that could be bought in any shopping mall. I was in college around that time so it was easy to see the before and after in female performers. As said Slick came from an era where sexing up an act was quite rare. The only woman with any name recognition that I recall doing that was country singer Tonya Tucker but she was modest when compared to Madonna.

Yes, you're wrong. 😃 She performed topless at least once and pretty much had the morals of an alley cat (Little bit of trivia...she supposedly slept with every member of Jefferson Airplane except one...Marty Balin...she supposedly couldn't stand him). She was really pretty when she was younger, but she was definitely a "wild child."

Having said all that...what a great, powerful singing voice she had. She could really sing.

That was the style for feminist hippie chicks in the 60s.
I think she had to put up with a lot of macho BS to the point that she like many attractive women just learned to shut it off.

Video killed the Radio Star.

Yeah, downplayed her sexuality by being one of the biggest whores at the time.