All or most of the girls in my school LOVE One Direction or Justin Bieber, and I laugh in their faces, regardless of what my parents taught me about respecting the taste of others. Because both the singers in question are so ridiculously feminine looking and sound so girlish. I'm not hating on them but that is genuinely how I think they are. I'm not the type to scream when I hear them sing or turn the tv off when they come on a show but I just think they are SO much like girls and I don't understand the attraction, some might say they're good looking and I'm not saying they're gay or something like that but it seems like girls my age or younger seem to warm to that sort of image more than say....Chris Martin (Lead Singer of a band called Coldplay) who I used to like. I don't hate them (but I wouldn't listen to them more than once a week at most.) I like The Rolling Stones, Avenged Sevenfold, My Chemical Romance, Slipknot and all that. But looks seems to win more hearts than music (not that all people who like them have the same thought.) but when I put together a survey for college about music taste, and asked the Biebers or the Directioners why they liked them, the first answer was always, "They're SO hot!" and I don't know why this bugs me so much that not one person even mentioned their music first, and if they ever mentioned the songs, they were always a bit vague. I don't know why I think this. IIN?
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However, I don't see why people have such an affinity with criticizing men if they wish to look effeminate. Let go of the beliefs of how a typical gender should conduct themselves, it's archaic. You want to be unique and original, do that first. A lot of girls already have.
By the way, I know a ton of girls that listened to the Rolling Stones back in the day because they thought Mick Jagger was sexy. And a ton of girls back in the day that listened to Guns and Roses because they thought Axel Rose was sexy, and he looked more feminine than I do, and I'm an actual, feminine looking female. This post fails. Go home.
As for what you say about girls listening to The Rolling Stones and Guns and Roses back in the day, I KNOW that a lot of girls listened to them because they were sexy, in fact music is quite based on image isn't it? Always was, BUT I was posting this to ask a question about weather my opinion was shared, not to be told that.
I am stating that you need not be upset about girlies liking music because the singer appeals to their fancy. Just because the genre is different, doesn't mean the principle ain't the same. I could probably list a handful of bands that you listen to that are famous because the lead singers are oh so sexy. It's really not a big deal.
I understand the annoyance. Musicians should be about music first not appearance. I remember when musicians were heard first then seen second. Back when radio wasn't dying. Wait that was only like 5 years ago, right?
My sentiments. Exactly.
I don't know about men, but from what I have seen, men are more likely to focus on the song they like rather than the person singing it, even if the girl is attractive.
But hey, what am I saying! Everyone knows men are the only ones and the majority of people that only like things if the person doing them are hot! Shame on me.