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[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

They aren't even ugly, they're just beautiful in a different way than media accepts.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

"Ugly" and "good music" are subjective

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[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shake hands with beef ;⁠-⁠)

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[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

They still do, they just can't perform it

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

MC Ride with Beyonce

Just because you aren’t Beyoncé doesn’t mean you aren’t beautiful.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Imagine how much less beautiful the world would be if this face weren’t allowed to succeed

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[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Hit me with your best music recommendations from ugly people.

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 9 points 2 months ago

Literally anything by The Pogues

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[–] match@pawb.social 7 points 2 months ago

pretty sure that's how hyperpop happened 10 years ago

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Blah blah blah blah old man yells at sky

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The issue is marketing, go to Bandcamp and have a route around

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 month ago

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).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

Shut up bill withers!

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