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 think you're confusing yourself by trying to talk about ITV's 'x-factor' and music like they are in any way connected.

LOL at "I did not say that ALL women are like this, just the majority"

Well, when I was about 12-14 I had huge crushes on my favourite bands and singers. So yes, for young girls/women it can sometimes be a factor. Even then, I think the crush arose because I liked the music so much, not the other way round.

Now, I have no idea what half the bands/singers in my music collection look like.

Of the half that I would recognise, I can't think of any that are particularly attractive, and many of them are female singers so I have absolutely no interest in their looks.

Of course YABU, and if you think the total consensus on here that YABU and rude means that there is a "kernel of truth" in your OP, you are frankly bananas.

Of course some women find some male singers attractive, but you would have to be extremely determined to sit through someone's album (which last time I checked was an audio, rather than visual experience) if you thought they sounded like shit, on the basis that they looked pretty. Why do you generalise like this about women? It's sexist. You are ASSUMING that it's women who voted for the Matt bloke (on basis of...er, nothing) and you're assuming that the reason they did it was because they are shallow and deaf. Not that many people vote for X factor - presumably if every gay man in the country voted for Matt then he would have won? Why not take your assumptions elsewhere?

Totally second that sometimes beautiful music can make not-pretty people seem more attractive (Jarvis Cocker - you missed him out of your list BadCoverVersion :)). But the truth is if I had to look at my favourite singers every time I listened to them, my music tastes would radically change quite quickly.

TTom Waits, anyone?

I've never watched X Factor but judging from the photos on the front of today's papers he looks like an unfortunate (albeit strategically shaved) cat that is being strangled by barbed wire. Have no idea what he sounds like.

No, you didn't, technically, say ALL women. You said "(most)" in brackets once (although you also say "women" (unqualified) in the title and again in your final sentence. And you said that they "only" buy music based on how the artist/band looks. That is frankly as bad (especially when you base it on votes on a show that the majority of women don't watch and certainly don't vote on, together with an assumption that the winner's votes came from women (for which you have AFAICS no evidence whatsoever) and a further assumption that all those women who you are assuming voted for him did it because of his looks (for which you have AFAICS less than no evidence given that his looks are nothing even remotely special). And then you pick up on a couple of posts from women here who say that they quite fancy a couple of singers in their music collections, but certainly not all, and use that to claim that "there is a kernel of truth in my opening post".

What would it have taken for you not to find "a kernel of truth" in your bizarre claim? By the sound of things every woman in the UK would have had to swear on a stack of Bibles that she only buys music by singers/bands she finds seriously physically repulsive and never buys anything by anyone vaguely passable.

You may, of course, be confusing "the majority of women" with "a significant portion of prepubescent/pubescent girls", but then YWBU in a whole host of other ways.

YAB completely, utterly and totally U.

Complete rubbish IMO. I know many many women who have a deep passion for music and looks rarely come into it. We do appreciate talent, skill and musicianship.