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.
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Just because you aren’t Beyoncé doesn’t mean you aren’t beautiful.
Blah blah blah blah old man yells at sky
Shake hands with beef ;-)
Primus sucks
Imagine how much less beautiful the world would be if this face weren’t allowed to succeed
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pretty sure that's how hyperpop happened 10 years ago
Listen to ugly people music (or vtuber music, same thing (na, just kidding around with vtuber insecurities (help I'm trapped inside this nested parenthesis))) nevermind, got out.
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Hit me with your best music recommendations from ugly people.
kimya dawson and left at london
(i think these people are gorgeous, for the purposes of this rhetoric I am basing this perception on hollywood norms)
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Shut up bill withers!
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.
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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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