I'd have to put forward a good test for music.
Would anyone buy it if the performers were unattractive? It has hit a peak with boy bands and girl bands, where you're getting lesser covers of records maybe only 5 or 10 years old, and you just know if it was 5 overweight balding guys with incredible voices, they'd still be touring local bars for $20 a show and a drinks tab.
It's even been proved by the reality show treadmill, the more model looking winners are far more likely to have success after the show than, well, Michelle McManus, Paul Potts the opera lite guy, and Susan Boyle is already old news I think.
Then you look at a band like Motorhead, irrespective of whether you like metal or not, you sure as hell can't say Lemmy made it based on looks
There again, perhaps if you had a metal band that all looked like they should be in the next Backstreet boys, but with long hair and leather jackets, then maybe they'd fail purely based on image too.
I don't go out of my way to hear chart music, but it's rare anything catches my attention.
I do have to admit Hot Chip's new video got stuck in my head for quite a while, despite sounding like a typical boy band song, crossed with a dodgy 'club anthem' track, in a way, but then it could have been the creepiness of the video, I think it's a parody of a current boy band, (and I know Hot Chip aren't the ones on stage, and they're not a boy band, but it still SOUNDS like that.)
It's weird because it seems like a combination of two genres I can't stand, and I don't know the band, so I'm not cutting it a deal because of that, maybe it's actually a decent record, heh. It's all opinion in the end, however, and I imagine it's partly down to knowing that the band is taking the piss.
EDIT: doesn't the spooky bald guy look like David Tennant, the last Dr Who? or am I thinking of someone else? I was thinking Steve Coogan at first, but I think its more Tennant now.
Would anyone buy it if the performers were unattractive? It has hit a peak with boy bands and girl bands, where you're getting lesser covers of records maybe only 5 or 10 years old, and you just know if it was 5 overweight balding guys with incredible voices, they'd still be touring local bars for $20 a show and a drinks tab.
It's even been proved by the reality show treadmill, the more model looking winners are far more likely to have success after the show than, well, Michelle McManus, Paul Potts the opera lite guy, and Susan Boyle is already old news I think.
Then you look at a band like Motorhead, irrespective of whether you like metal or not, you sure as hell can't say Lemmy made it based on looks
There again, perhaps if you had a metal band that all looked like they should be in the next Backstreet boys, but with long hair and leather jackets, then maybe they'd fail purely based on image too.
I don't go out of my way to hear chart music, but it's rare anything catches my attention.
I do have to admit Hot Chip's new video got stuck in my head for quite a while, despite sounding like a typical boy band song, crossed with a dodgy 'club anthem' track, in a way, but then it could have been the creepiness of the video, I think it's a parody of a current boy band, (and I know Hot Chip aren't the ones on stage, and they're not a boy band, but it still SOUNDS like that.)
It's weird because it seems like a combination of two genres I can't stand, and I don't know the band, so I'm not cutting it a deal because of that, maybe it's actually a decent record, heh. It's all opinion in the end, however, and I imagine it's partly down to knowing that the band is taking the piss.
EDIT: doesn't the spooky bald guy look like David Tennant, the last Dr Who? or am I thinking of someone else? I was thinking Steve Coogan at first, but I think its more Tennant now.
