Being pretty is all well and good for getting some initial interest...
But surely there has to be something good to the music before people keep listening to it. What the singer looks like means absolutely nothing when I am sitting on the bus listening through headphones. The singer being pretty may get me to look at a video or two on youtube, but I am not going to listen to them any further than that if they suck...

Sure they may not be the most groundbreaking band on the planet, but I will have to admit that I do rather like them.

And yes, Hayley Williams is rather cute, and fun to watch bounce about on stage. :)

Flip it around and take someone like the Gossip, the fact that the singer is somewhat overweight may make you notice them over any other generic band, but through a pair of headphones the fact that the singer is repulsively overweight means absolutely nothing, the shitty and overplayed music do.

I do now realise I have admitted to liking the band with the pretty singer, and disliking the one with the fat bird which doesn't really help my case too much, but trust me, if I only listened to bands based on the prettiness of the singer, I wouldn't be listening to anything fronted by an ugly bloke (which lacking the gay, would be all of them...) and my musical tastes would be somewhat more limited.
(442, Fri 31 Dec 2010, 14:13, Reply)