Don't forget about the halo effect. Someone on stage doing a killer set is going to seem hotter. When someone is good at one thing, we start to think they're good at everything (where being hot is a thing).
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Marcus King ROCKS and he is not good looking. Charismatic as fuck on stage too.
I think there is about the same proportion of good music to bad as there ever was, you just don't hear the bad music of the past because it didn't last. Survival bias, I think it's called.
I make music but I'll never perform it for people that judge music by appearance.
For sure, as a teenager - interest in music switched from interest in music to finding music videos that got girls in 'em'.
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...and Elvis has left the building!
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Music is better when you listen to what brings you joy and stop caring about the physical appearance of the artist.
Ed Sheeran i guess.
I'd like to thank this thread for reminding me to check out some new music. Just today, I have discovered MJ Lenderman and Still House Plants who both seem to be doing some cool stuff that's right up my alley. There's a new Mogwai track released a few days back and Sumac just released an amazing sludge metal album, even though I'm not really into sludge, it might convert me. A quick few image searches shows me that none of them are particularly attractive. Music has always been, and always will be awesome regardless of the physical appeal of the lead singers.
That's true!!! Ugly people are talented.
Don't ask me how I know...