Duncan Sheik - Why do the pretty ones age so poorly?😭

Yass!

OP, I had the biggest crush on him circa "Barely Breathing." I always imagined what he looked like nude.

Seemingly every girl I went to college with, circa 1996, masturbated to the cover of his debut album.

Which I also bought. I was more interested in where he got his shirt — black button-down shirts were not readily available to Midwesterners at that time.

OMG he is a pig now.

Kill it - before his arteries do!

He looked WAY better in pictures than in real life. I met him and he had a limp moist handshake and seemed withdrawn to the point of being autistic. Short and mousy.

[quote] he had a limp moist handshake

Back then, I would have loved for him to give me a moist handshake...

Also present was Will Oldham who in his youth was very charming. Quite freaky now of course. I thought the sexy semi celebs in those years were Alex von Fürstenberg and a few of the Pahlavis. And Will, the anti-stud.

It should be a crime to let yourself go this badly.

Duncan is one of the many artists who made the 90s bearable. He's not a perfect 10, nonetheless, he's cute and seems grounded in his interviews. I would be over the moon if I met him at a party and he asked for my number.

He still looked okay in 2015, what on earth happened

Whatever happened, happened fast, because a year after r10 he looked like this. What on earth.

I was just listening to his music yesterday. It soothes me.

Miss 'Rona is a bitch, r10.

He's an alcoholic. In the late 2000's he was scheduled to play a venue in Philly, and cancelled to go to rehab at the 11th hour.

[quote]OMG he is a pig now.

He looks like a typical suburban dad. He could look decent if he just buckled down and did a few months of keto & worked with a personal trainer. But he probably doesn't give a shit.

Could be worse. He could have turned out like Matthew Sweet.

He finally got tired of holding his stomach in.

Poor Duncan. He's probably barely breathing when he climbs a flight of stairs now...

He was a damn cutie in his prime though!

Does he still record pop music? I thought he was all into scoring musicals now.

I didn't realize he is gay. I just heard him interviewed. He's a gay. Never married.

Seems like he was always a fatty who just managed to keep the pounds at bay for his first album shoot, then started chunking out.

Maybe he was eating/drinking his feelings. He was not taken seriously at all, and his first album didn't sell, although he got a lot of attention for being cute and "Barely Breathing" constantly playing in Banana Republics across the land.

You could be right, R19, but this is what Wikipedia says:

[quote]As of 2016, Sheik was reportedly in a relationship with model Nora Ariffin.

“reportedly in a relationship with ....”

This photo is supposedly from a couple of months ago - looks like he might've dropped most of the weight. He still looks much older than he is but he looks nice in this at least.

A lot of us used to be thin...

Tragic.

He should change his name to Duncan Donuts, amiright?

I wonder what his bare ass looked like in those '90s years.

I've never met a graduate of Brown who wasn't seriously mentally ill in some way.

He liked eating more than he liked being cute.

He'd already packed on 20 or 30 pounds by the time he was on Letterman in '97.

Downtempo DJ & musician Nicolas Jaar was the sulky it-boy and Brown wunderkind around 2012-2015

I'm guessing it was booze rather than food, r29, but who knows. In this performance from just a year earlier he could be Paul Rudd's twin brother.

Breaking news: Everyone's body falls apart.Everyone loses their looks. Everyone ages and dies.

Paul Newman, Cary Grant, Sean Connery, even Harrison Ford, are proof entropy can happen later rather than early.

Wow, now I get why older people say youth is fleeting. He really looks like he was someone else in his youth. Now he looks like any old suburban dad with a frigid wife, 3 kids and a shitty job he hates.

I drink 7 beers ev nite and im no fat fuk…...

r4 There's no excuse for that!

Wow more like Duncan ‘Hines’ Sheik!

Matthew sweet was always a chub. I suspect being thin-ish for those 2 years in the 90s was the anomaly for him.

[Quote]Breaking news: Everyone's body falls apart.Everyone loses their looks. Everyone ages and dies.

No, not everyone.

He was so cute in his “Barely Breathing” days. I saw him about twelve years ago at an outdoor concert and he had shaggy hair and a beard, but wasn’t fat. Still looked okay. Had the opportunity to chat a bit after the show, he was nice. On the debit side, alas, he was wearing (yikes!) flip-flops!

I bought his album back in the '90s because he was so cute. I don't know if I didn't like the music, or the digital sound repelled me, or what, but it ended up at the used CD store within a couple of years, not a scratch or scuff on it.

Duncan Sheik is a Buddhist.

R41, makes sense. He always had a kind face and a calming energy.

I was standing outside a building in midtown smoking a cig in the middle of the afternoon when I heard this weird screeching. I looked over to see Duncan Shiek screaming at some young woman. He had his hands on his hips and was creating a huge scene to embarrass the woman.

This was during Spring Awakening so maybe he was feeling like he wasn’t being treated like the star he is. He was very dumpy and pear-shaped—slight, narrow shoulders and a huge ass. As mentioned, quite short.

He’s the Chandler Bing of the music world.

Another lazy fat American who thought he could defy reality and science.

I'm going with undisclosed mental illness, self-medicating, then prescribed medication.

Sorry but I never thought he was attractive. And he's REALLY pitchy when singing live.

Likely weight gain was due to steroids like Prednisone. Medical condition bitches.

"Wishful Thinking" by Duncan Sheik is on the March 1998 Gap In-Store Playlist!

"On A High" by Duncan Sheik is on the November 2002 Gap In-Store Playlist!

Duncan Sheik's version of "Embraceable You" is on the March 2004 GapBody In-Store Playlist!

I realize age is a bitch but wow, what a difference.

And R15 I am still shocked at Matthew Sweet.

Sometimes I think the cute guys make themselves deliberately ugly so as to be "taken seriously."

another deluded american fattie. There must be about 300 million of them

"Barely Breathing" by Duncan Sheik is on the October 1996 Gap In-Store Playlist!

Duncan Sheik is Jeff Buckley - light.

Matthew Sweet was SO pretty back in the day.

^^Liar or insane.

[quote] He still looks much older than he is but he looks nice in this at least.

He doesn't look older than he is. He's over 50. That's what guys in their 50s look like.

I do feel sorry for Matthew. He is really unhealthy at this point. Must have some demons.

Sheik was the poor man's Timothy Hutton.

I met him just before he became famous. Very sweet and very shy and quiet. Never got a gay vibe, but never thought he was that cute either. Was amazed when I saw the album cover and how much the camera really loved him.

Duncan appears to be a Yo-Yo dieter.

Who has seen him nude?

Who has had him nude?

[quote]That's what guys in their 50s look like.

Not anymore.

[quote] Not anymore.—J. Stamos, T. Olyphant, P. Rudd, et. al.

Those are all actors. He was never an actor.

I get him mixed up with Tai Bachman ("She's So High").

I loathed that song . I did think he was a cutie though. I think he dyed his hair black then and that seemed to work for him. He seems to have brown hair in other pics.

Spring Awakening is great.

He’s not much of a composer.

R70 Duncan won two Tony’s.

[quote]That's what drew many to Sheik in the first place, along with his good looks and haunted poet sensibility. Hey, I felt like I had made a real discovery a decade-and-a-half ago when I first heard Barely Breathing. I have followed his career ever since, and judging by the large number of gay men in attendance at the recent concerts, so have many others. That is not to say Sheik is out or even so-inclined himself, but he has been quoted as being at ease with his bisexual appeal, and he has lauded Rufus Wainwright (gay as stack heels!) as being closer to his musical aesthetic than most other high-testosterone driven writers are.

[quote] Duncan won two Tony’s

Oh, dear [R71].

Apostrophes do not make words plural.

That Barely Breathing song was so fucking boring. Everyone in my college dorm LOVED it. I drowned them out with Mariah Carey.

You were shit tons more boring than they were, r74, and I happen to agree with you on "Barely Breathing."

R73 fuck off!

[quote] Duncan won two Tony’s.

Two of Tony's what?

Enemas, Rose.

I bet Duncan Sheik had a wild bush.

r79 Really? I picture a tidy late 90's landing strip.

R77 Fuck off!

R80, you're probably right, but stop ruining my then-adolescent fantasies of him!

LOVE his rubbers!

[quote] I've never met a graduate of Brown who wasn't seriously mentally ill in some way.

Brian Griffin went to Brown.