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That's true!!! Ugly people are talented.
Don't ask me how I know...
Isn't this extremely genre dependent? And regardless, this has been going on for a long time.
The Supremes? Good looking gals (and great music IMHO).
Grateful Dead? Sure, rough around the edges.
The Doors? Um...ever seen a picture of Jim Morrison? Dude would make Derek Zoolander blush.
Out of curiosity, I asked Spotify for modern metal music, and I got The Black Dahlia Murder
frontman looks like a regular dude who I'd grab a beer with.
Yeah, modern pop places a ton of emphasis on looks, sure. But I think this has been pretty prominent in music for a very long time, be it the airbrushed R&B of the sixties, the androgynous glam of the eighties, or the metro sexual (guy)/model-esque looks of modern pop.
Beauty is also within the eye of the beholder, many forget this.
My first proper boyfriend was very attractive to me, because he resembled Jarvis from Pulp. Not everyone's cup of tea, yet I found that look very attractive.
Imagine how much less beautiful the world would be if this face weren’t allowed to succeed
When he was young, he had an atypical beauty but he was fucking hot.
Young Mic Jagger was a snacc.
Music was better when I used to look at the back of an album and the credits were like a dozen people. I'm sorry to people who like Beyonce, Gaga etc. But you look at their albums and they have hundreds of writers, engineers, producers, mixers, etc. What do these celebrities actually do anymore? Just show up and read the lines and the crew takes care of the rest? I'm sorry but that to me isn't a good artist or musician, that's just manufactured branding.
There is a reason Beyoncé is labeled a performer. I don’t believe many of them could ever sing, the popular ones are all autotune performers.
Reminds me of Randy on South park
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJd3vfCkiwDslB9r1xvfx9609RJzbLYh-?si=vOJmvu-OlFtIRflK
Video killed the radio star
God, the irony of MTV playing this as their very first music video.
Podcasts are literally a thing
Podcasts are not what this song is about at all. You are not totally incorrect though, podcasts are similar to radio.
It's a song bro
Politics too
"Ugly" and "good music" are subjective
Ok Dr Peterson.
That's not the question. Do you think music nowadays puts more emphasis on the appearance of the artist than before? Idk what it is but I find reactions like this annoying. Like OP makes a good point and then we have to hear a lot of 'well, actually' bs.
Do you think music nowadays puts more emphasis on the appearance of the artist than before?
I think the question is backwards. What we have isn't a prioritization of appearance but a reduction of advertised talent combined with a professionalization of cosmetics. When you've consecrated your industry around a bare handful of performers, you can pick out the fist full of people that check every box.
Beyonce, Swift, Usher, and Bieber cover all the bases.
But once you get outside that rarified niche of promoted talent? Do you really think Post Malone is famous for his good looks? Is Kishi Bashi just coasting on his pretty face?
I don't really think so.
Attractive people get more opportunities in life, it's baked into our brains. I prefer looking at attractive people. Music is something we hear, but with digital and social media it's as much seen as it is heard. More artists are coming up through tik tok now than the radio. This relationship shows that being attractive will improve a persons odds of being successful in music. Maybe if personality can shine through in those videos it can overtake appearance.
More artists are coming up through tik tok now than the radio.
The radio isn't a thousand independent stations looking to fill air time with local talent, it's a handful of mega-monoliths looking to maximize advertising revenue with the Most Popular Thing (that fits the corporate agenda).
This relationship shows that being attractive will improve a persons odds of being successful in music.
Blandly conventionally attractive, to boot. Could we even do Amy Winehouse in the modern moment? Could we see Eminem or Maryl Manson or Buddy Holly or Ray Charles or Billie Holiday topping the charts? Idfk anymore. Seems like it's easier than ever to blacklist anyone who is even remotely controversial. Plenty of attractive people who will do the Brittany Spears thing for fear of being the next Dixie Chicks.
Maybe if personality can shine through in those videos it can overtake appearance.
Unfortunately, the personality that shines brightest seems to be the kind that singles you're an asshole.
Just ask P Diddy and Kanye.
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