Pianos and nipples: St George's Hall, Liverpool

I was working a gig at at George's Hall in Liverpool recently, and while I find the place really beautiful, I can't help but also find it a little funny.

We worry so much about the decline of youth, porn addiction, shallow, self absorbed millennials, but 170 years ago, some extremely rich dude decided that it would be classy and tasteful to have 15 scantily clad pubescent girls with visible nipples sculpted out of marble to hold up this balcony. While platforms like Facebook and Instagram are frantically banning even the slightest slip of a nip, the most staunchly old fashioned patrons of the arts would consider this place the utmost in beauty and good taste.

Imagine someone doing this now? Designing a civic building with sculptures of Miley Cyrus or Kesha propping up their staircases? We'd think they had serious problems!

Sometimes I think we give people in the past too much credit. Some of them were artists and geniuses, sure, but plenty of them were just nasty dirtbags like the rest of us! ;)