"Ugly" people still make music but apparently you don't listen to it. Shameful, tbh.
Video killed the radio star
Pop is just as manufactured and fake as it always was, with the exceptional trend setter or two doing their own thing, but what's just below the surface is always just as good as it always was.
As a fan of hardcore, electronica, folk, metal, and all of the genres that fall under them, I still get new bands. I still get new releases. I get cheap as fuck concerts and still get cool merch and awesome vinyls. I have zero to complain about. Hell, Primus, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer just made an album together, in 2024.
Anyone who says music sucks now doesn't really listen to that much music to start with. Music is just fine, man. Maybe look a little deeper than the pudding skin.
What do you mean? there are plenty of British recording artists
Iggy Pop would like some words.
Yea that's why metal fuckin rules. We got the ugliest guys ever altogether in one room and said "what you got?" and they became legends
And for anyone that might say that doesn't happen anymore, I ask: how many open mic nights or $20 shows have you been to lately? The scene is doing great in my area, but it doesn't happen by magic. Ya gotta support it, spread the word, bring your friends.
I don't think music has gotten any worse. However, it is much easier and cheaper to produce music today: you don't have to be able to play an instrument and professional production is possible with comparatively inexpensive software on any standard computer. This and also the changes in distribution (no more need for sound carriers, ...) have probably led to a lot more music being produced today than in the past. Of course, this does not mean that music has become better as a result, but it also does not mean that it has become worse. You just have to find the gems among the admittedly gigantic amount of junk.
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.
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).
Yeah no, that's just a cranky old guy thought. Just today I was watching fairly average looking people promoting music on late shows. You're probably getting a very thin slice of pop music and ignoring everything else (and hell, even pop breaks that rule sometimes).
Plus, physical beauty and music are both subjective. I try to not get all "old man yells at cloud" about how music "used to be better".
Just because you aren’t Beyoncé doesn’t mean you aren’t beautiful.
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.
I'm 14 and this is deep! /s
pretty sure that's how hyperpop happened 10 years ago
Ed Sheeran seems to be doing alright
Ugly might be a strong word. Definitely not conventionally attractive though.
Nonsense. Anyone can make music if they want to and are able to.
Blah blah blah blah old man yells at sky
Indie labels still allow ugly people on stage!
Pop / major label's job is more on the money side than the music. We don't see ugly people in adverts either.
Music is better when you listen to what brings you joy and stop caring about the physical appearance of the artist.
They still do, they just can't perform it
Ed Sheeran i guess.
I got a 30 day ban on Facebook for posting this in a meme. It was the change my mind guy
Shut up bill withers!
I make music but I'll never perform it for people that judge music by appearance.
video killed the radio star
Agreed
