Adorkable/Music

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  • The male lead in the music video for Colbie Caillat's Fallin' For You is clumsy, a touch overweight, and has all the surfing skill of a native Arizonan, but in spite (or because) of these obvious 'shortcomings', his girlfriend is clearly smitten with the big lug.
  • Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong. In most interviews, he can hardly go two sentences without throwing in a "y'know". Plus, a good chunk of his earlier songs are about puppy-love. Oh, and the video for Holiday deserves a mention. The fact that he looks barely over half his age helps, too.
  • Gerard Way, with an emphasis on the dork part. Even when he's trying to be a Badass. Especially when he's wearing an argyle sweater and writing comics.
  • Lindsey Stirling, a classically trained violinist, has to date done musical arrangements of The Legend of Zelda, Skyrim, and The Lord Of The Rings soundtracks. And let's not forget her videos of those arrangements. And yes, she makes her own costumes for them.
  • Patrick Stump, singer of Fall Out Boy. Thick glasses, (formerly) chubby tummy, total geek and the singing voice befitting a god. Also, amongst Real Person Fic writers, he is Launcher of a Thousand Ships.
  • Neil "Lemon Demon" Cicierega.
  • Duran Duran bassist John Taylor, believe it or not. He grew up a shy, awkward boy who wore glasses, played RPGs as a teen, and was a fan of science fiction (he was the one who thought up the band name. It was only as he entered his twenties, ditched his glasses for contacts, teased his hair, and wore more fashionable clothes that he got transformed into a teen idol.
  • Every power metal band. Power metal is very dorky.
  • Yoshiki, Toshi, and Pata from X Japan, to varying degrees, more so as they got older for Yoshiki and Pata.
  • Ludo.
  • One of the three male Love Interests of Sugababes' music video Push The Button.
  • David Bowie's Jazzin' for Blue Jean, a 20-minute long-form video, is based around the Talky Bookends story of Vic, a lovestruck-but-clumsy man who tells a Celebrity Lie to the woman of his dreams and now has to find a way to personally introduce elegant, supercool rock star Screamin' Lord Byron to her. Bowie plays both men, and Vic doesn't get the girl in the end for all his trouble -- which Bowie doesn't think is fair....
  • Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco (or hell, all of P!atD, past and former.) Here's a pic to show you how heart-meltingly adorable he is.
  • Buddy Holly-Just wook at this wittle face!
  • Elvis Costello. See here.
  • Graham Coxon.
  • Uwe Kröger, the most famous musical star in the German-speaking countries of the world (according to the Other Wiki), dogged officer of the Law, murderous opera ghost, dancing star, and of course DEATH (Elisabeth)... and prone to dangerous levels of adorable. Just look at him [dead link]. Or watch (from 1:20) him. (all)
  • The Feelies in general, but especially on the cover of their first LP.
  • Benny from the Axis of Awesome.
  • No matter how many times Japanese singer Gackt tries to portray himself on TV as a stoic badass with few emotions...he often inadvertently reveals himself as a adorable dork with a habit of saying goofy or embarassing things. Most fans agree that he is cuter this way, anyway.
  • Utada Hikaru, who blogged regularly about her giant stuffed teddy bear (Kuma-chang), is a top-tier Tetris expert, and is generally a big goof.
  • Koda Kumi. She's known for her very sexual image and dramatic power ballads, but put her in an interview, and she turns into a hyperactive chatterbox. Her "cute" songs also tend to be cranked Up to Eleven.
  • Adam Young from Owl City
  • Ringo Starr. I mean, just LOOK at him!
  • Lisa Loeb really worked the adorkable look in the nineties with the aid of her signature horn-rimmed glasses.
  • Elton John had his moments, at least in The Seventies.
  • 2-D of Gorillaz. He's a zombie loving, whale-phobic, sweetheart stoner, who is slightly dim and suffers from Geek Physique, You Gotta Have Blue Hair, and lack of eyes. It also helps that he's the Butt Monkey and is frequently the receiver of both verbal and physical abuse from his fellow band members (read: Murdoc). That said, he also falls into the Uncanny Valley.
  • Violinist Hilary Hahn is definitely this. She's at the top of current concert violinists, but also posts videos in which she interviews a fish, and writes blog posts about sprinting around concert halls, jumping on the bed , and dressing her violin in pet costumes.
  • Kelly Clarkson, epitomized by her dance move "The Lawnmower".
  • Korean pop star Kim Taeyeon, who is prone to uncontrollable fits of laughter in which her nostrils flare up to near superhuman proportion. She has literally fallen off a chair on a TV talk show during one such fit.
    • Many of Kim's bandmates are often spotted exhibiting adorkable traits, but none fully embody it to the level of Taeyeon.
  • The K-Pop Band SHINee deserves a special mention. Hello Baby really exhibits this. A special shout-out goes to Taemin, the youngest member. Of the five of them he is the king of adorkable.
  • In contrast to his stage persona, Colin Meloy. Just... Colin Meloy.
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