Women only buy music because of how artist/band looks.

[marantha]

AIBU to think that the looks of an artist/band is a major factor when it comes to the music buying of (most) women?
I have to say that looks/sex appeal does not enter into it for men- yes, they may feel Kylie is v. v. attractive with a nice bottom, but there is no way they'd buy her album on the basis of that.
The X Factor last night made it this clear to me- Matt Cardle is a handsome, pleasant enough seeming guy certainly but he is very karaoke, isn't he? (I am assuming that the majority of his voters were female) James Blunt is the same.
I reckon that women buy into looks when it comes to musical purchasing and not particular talent. AIBU?

I LISTEN TO A LOT OF ROCK MUSIC opps soz caps

and most of them are munters i woouldn't shag em with yours

marantha

I never denied her talent...i just wondered when DH listened to the CDs

but then, I did used to have a MAJOR crush on Michael Stipe, so I can't really comment

men chose the cars surely.

Am I a couple of the posters here. I adore Elvis Costello, have a couple of Proclaimers CD's and rather like the Pogues. That Shane Magowan. Who wouldn't want to shag the skin off him?
OP, YABVVVVVU

Er, how many 12yos do you think post on MN?

I don't know any adult woman who buys music on the basis of how the band looks.

What a stupid assumption.

Don't get me started on Beethoven. Phwoar

ah I had a lovely black and white poster of Axl Rose when I was a teenager .... spent hours drooling over it

"I don't think I'm being that unreasonable-look at the boy bands we have. Anyway, I mean it as applying to a lot of women, not all."

Er, pre-pubescent girls and teenagers aren't women.

Hummina hummina

axl was hot though

Duelling Fanjo, you must try dude blog.mtviggy.com/2009/09/28/under-the-covers-devendra-banhart-on-phoenix/

I do like a nice beard. That's why I listen to Pink.

MollysChambers, you have reminded me though, I would go and see KOL again, even if I didn't like their music

*goes to paddle in the shallow end

What kenobi said. Boy bands is kind of a different thing, because that's mostly about a manufactured experience designed to cater for what tweens wish the boys they knew were like, so of course it involves looks. The music is secondary.

FWIW I don't think I pay much attention to what people look like when I choose which music to buy, but that might be because I like folk music and folk musicians are generally a bit funny-looking.

Try again!

Duelling Fanjo, you must try s-devendra-banhart-on-phoenix/ this dude

I do like a nice beard. That's why I listen to Pink.

oh and dont forget that poster of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers in the nude with only their socks on!!

Utter rubbish. Unless what you really mean is than a lot of men are more deeply into music as a part of their lifestyle that a lot of women (because muso-collecting-bean-counting tendencies are found in men more often).

hogfather I think I had the same post of Axl Rose when I was 13 .

Have you seen what he looks like these days, though? I'm convinced there's a very good reason he's never been seen in the same room as Ricky Gervais.

YABU, obviously.

I couldn't tell you what most of the bands I listen to look like.

OTHM he was sat on a box looking all lovely before the beard came along and we both got old

Oh, I forgot the main way of launching boy bands pre x-factor. Gigs in gay clubs. Tripping over women in there.