I'd prefer if they were attractive but I'm not going to ignore their music if they aren't beautiful. If it's good music I'll listen to it.
Poll: Do musicians have to beautiful?
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I know you're a fellow procrastinator by trade, but please, don't feign from completing your sentences. You make the rest of us look like loafers.
That said, do musicians have to be beautiful? To break down the question to semantics, it's asking are they required to be beautiful. For this to be a requirement, there would need to be an expectation on behalf of the viewer. For this expectation to exist, I would say that viewer has to be very shallow. So, in the end, I'd say that musicians have to be beautiful if their viewers are shallow. They probably are if the music is mainstream crap.
That said, do musicians have to be beautiful? To break down the question to semantics, it's asking are they required to be beautiful. For this to be a requirement, there would need to be an expectation on behalf of the viewer. For this expectation to exist, I would say that viewer has to be very shallow. So, in the end, I'd say that musicians have to be beautiful if their viewers are shallow. They probably are if the music is mainstream crap.
Women, in pop/hip hop/mainstream stuff, yeah definitely. Men, not so much. Outside the mainstream and it really doesn't matter. At all.
Nope, just look at what some of the popular artists have done to themselves, they're horrific freaks of nature with more plastic than flesh, bleached hair, as well as half their stomachs sucked through a tube, and that doesn't stop them from earning millions!
The nice answer is no, there's no reason that the ugliest person in the world couldn't compose something beautiful or have an amazing voice or be a virtuoso on a violin.
More realistically, we're far less likely to hear a musician who isn't at least passably attractive because it's very hard for someone in nearly any field of the entertainment industry (at least, any field that puts you in front of an audience) to get a foot in the door if they aren't pleasant to look at.
We've gotten a little better since the days when a newly manufactured pop act got pushed out the door every week, but not much. You're still far more likely to see a pretty girl with mediocre musical talents make it to the top than a plain girl with amazing musical talents (and again, like other audience-related entertainment fields, this is more true for women than men.)
Things like having smart management and promotion and a willingness to work hard and earn your audience still go a long way. But anyone who thinks looks aren't a factor- often, a big factor- is fooling themselves.
More realistically, we're far less likely to hear a musician who isn't at least passably attractive because it's very hard for someone in nearly any field of the entertainment industry (at least, any field that puts you in front of an audience) to get a foot in the door if they aren't pleasant to look at.
We've gotten a little better since the days when a newly manufactured pop act got pushed out the door every week, but not much. You're still far more likely to see a pretty girl with mediocre musical talents make it to the top than a plain girl with amazing musical talents (and again, like other audience-related entertainment fields, this is more true for women than men.)
Things like having smart management and promotion and a willingness to work hard and earn your audience still go a long way. But anyone who thinks looks aren't a factor- often, a big factor- is fooling themselves.
they spend a lot of time and prep on looking as good as they can, but no it's not necessary. it helps a lot, but it's not necessary. Look at willi nelson, charlie daniels, wynonna judd. there are lots of artists that aren't perfect 10's, but it isn't as common.
Yup. In the music business lately, beauty is almost everything.
See how all of those beautiful women become super rich and super popular even though their singing voice is kinda "meh" or even worse? It's because of looks.
And then when somebody comes along who has both talent AND looks, then he/she "takes the music world by storm" because of the fact that they've got everybody listening to them and looking at them at the same time.
I know this all sounds dickish, and this comment's gonna complete the asshole-ish-ness of this post; do you think that Susan Boyle would have ever gotten even marginally noticed if it weren't for Britain's Got Talent?
It sucks, and it's not fair, but 90% of the time, it's the people who are attractive that get all the attention. Of course, fame's not all it's cracked up to be.
See how all of those beautiful women become super rich and super popular even though their singing voice is kinda "meh" or even worse? It's because of looks.
And then when somebody comes along who has both talent AND looks, then he/she "takes the music world by storm" because of the fact that they've got everybody listening to them and looking at them at the same time.
I know this all sounds dickish, and this comment's gonna complete the asshole-ish-ness of this post; do you think that Susan Boyle would have ever gotten even marginally noticed if it weren't for Britain's Got Talent?
It sucks, and it's not fair, but 90% of the time, it's the people who are attractive that get all the attention. Of course, fame's not all it's cracked up to be.