Do looks matter?

Probably not exactly what you were expecting.

I like music. But I try not to watch music videos or research artists because, for whatever reason, if I find an artist that isn't my idea of good looking the song to me gets degraded. It's really shallow but it can really ruin it for me so I try to avoid seeing the artist.

Does this apply to you?

I didn't know if this should go in ovp since it sort of fits being a poll, or if it should go in music for obvious reasons so I just stuck it in ovp because I'm already here. Sorry if it's wrong.

Most of the time, I'm curious what the artist looks like in a music video, so looks matter to me. If the artist is ugly, then I won't bother watching the video.

I'm kinda with Elite Charizard on this one. If i really like a song then find out what the artist looks like i think "woah he/she is weird" but i still listen to them.

I'm with peaches on this. Don't know what the majority of artists i listen to actually look like, the ones i do wether they are attractive or not it doesn't change my opinion of the music.

I don't ever care at all what an artist looks like, I'm listening to their music not deciding whether I want to offer them a career in modelling.
I know what all of my favourite musicians look like, and they just look like normal people. Not exceptionally good looking, not exceptionally revolting. I'm sure anyone that really has a passion for music would not care at all what the artist looks like. I find it funny that celebrities and anyone who holds any fame are subject to such criticism from people that are likely no more exceptional themselves, either in looks or personality.
"If you're famous, you have to be good looking!"

Image, however, can be pretty important. Fashion, live shows, behaviour, activism, etc. that can influence people a lot and I think it's quite an important aspect of the music world. Those are the things that turn a musician into an icon.

I don't care about looks! the only thing that i see when i see thin people...
they must have **** lives!

Moving this to the Culture & Media forum. Sometimes its hard to distinguish what belongs in OVP or in a forum that caters to a specific interest. So I won't hold it against you.

And a cool looking video is pretty much fun to watch a few times and make a few GIFs from. Then I usually forget about them after a while unless I feel like reminiscing about a video one of my favorite artists made.

the appearance of the musicians don't really matter to me but how they perform their song does

Vendak said:

"If you're famous, you have to be good looking!"

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It probably applies more to actors and I'm just the minority when it comes to music. It does sort of make sense though, nobody is obligated to be famous so we shouldn't be complaining when people expect them to look good.

But I honestly don't know why I am the way I am about the music, it's just a real turn off to find a song and then watch the video and it turning out to be a 40 year old guy or something. Like I said it's shallow but in my mind I imagine something completely different when I'm listening to it so I'd rather keep it that way.

Like the video on my profile, it's a really nice song but I liked it that much less when I went and watched the video. Nobody in the video is even ugly it's just not what I had pictured in my head.

Luke said:

Moving this to the Culture & Media forum. Sometimes its hard to distinguish what belongs in OVP or in a forum that caters to a specific interest. So I won't hold it against you.

And a cool looking video is pretty much fun to watch a few times and make a few GIFs from. Then I usually forget about them after a while unless I feel like reminiscing about a video one of my favorite artists made.

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Thanks. :)

And I do watch videos when it's somebody like Lil Wayne, Lady Gaga, etcetera. Because I already know what they look like.

Vendak said:

Image, however, can be pretty important. Fashion, live shows, behaviour, activism, etc. that can influence people a lot and I think it's quite an important aspect of the music world. Those are the things that turn a musician into an icon.

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I was going to say something along these lines. If there's an artist I like a lot I'll want to know what their style is because I hope that it will make me like them more for their creativity or whatnot. If they turn out not to have an interesting style then I'm a little disappointed, but it's not something that really affects my music preferences.

That's as far as I'll go though. I try not to learn anything about musicians' real lives and especially not their politics for fear that it will make me not want to listen to their music anymore. Luckily this hasn't happened for me yet.

And I never start out by looking an artist's image and seeing what their music is like. It's got to be the music first.

It doesn't influence me and it shouldn't influence anyone. Music isn't affected by looks, it's affected by genius and creativity.

Music is an art form, not a beauty contest.

Yes it does. Whenever I like an artist and I hear their music (this only applies for male artists) I tend to imagine them as extremely good looking. So when I then go to look them up and find out that they are far from good looking it puts a damper on the music when I try listening to it again. I won't hate their music afterwards I just won't be as into it. I tend to not know what any of my favorite artists look like because of that. I just don't bother ever looking them up.