Is being "unattractive" holding a crop of r&b singers back from success?

[HiphopRelated]

I agree somewhat...in this era you can become a superstar off a fluke song that works...plus the machine determines a hit....if you hear a song alot you either love it or get get tired or never liked.....ugly people make me sick in real life and extremely angry...i dont like them...but dope music is dope music...i dont even know what these chicks look like...but when i do and they bad its a plus...if syd...covered her self like sia....it would work...but i digress

lol

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

They have a eye test in the industry and it goes like this.

For a man - Do men want to be him? Do women want to fukk him?

For a woman- Do men want to fukk her? Does anyone want to fukk her? Do women want to be her?

These are real questions that get asked by executives in meetings. Young M.A. is more talented than Cardi B but no one wants to fukk her or be her. The game is the game.

 

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

Because they make music nobody wants to hear.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

I think that's just a bad picture of Ari
She be looking sexy

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Yes. If Aretha Franklin came out today, the labels would've closed the door on her and forced her to be a back up singer at most.

 

[Low End Derrick]

yall keep saying this, but this is the new crop of r&b singers, if this cohort of singers isn't aiming to be big, then who is? ay

trust me.

the industry always has a "next big thing" you've never heard of in the tuck.

and they'll be good looking.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

that type of r&b doesn't get played on the radio for most part, thats whats holding them back. As big as streaming is, radio still dictates whom the masses have access to because a lot of people are lazy when it comes to finding good music.

 

[desjardins]

It’s a real issue
I instantly knew BJ the Chicago kid would only get so big once I saw him
Jasmine Sullivan had the same limitations early on I think too
This an industry where Jill Scott couldn’t even show her face for a while
Hard out here

 

[LiveFromLondon]

Man she's fire. She got that little gap between her teeth but I don't mind it.

this chick below par but shes light skin soo...

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Syd needs long hair
fukk she doing

 

[Taadow]

Xscape, doe.
Missy Elliott, doe.
Macy Gray, doe.
Jill Scott, doe.


I don't wanna keep going, doe.

 

[Cynic]

was just thinking of r&b from the past where either being attractive (Mariah, Toni, Beyonce, Usher, R Kelly - forget all the shyt now, in the 90's women wanted to jump his bones) or at least making yourself up be as attractive as possible (Faith, Mary J B, a lot of the r&b groups - 112, SWV, etc) seemed to help with success.

look, idgaf what folks look like, but there's a lot of really good r&b out, but some of the artists are either unattractive or don't do much to boost their attractiveness. i'm wondering if this is part of what's holding back their ascent into the mainstream?


daniel ceasar (i know twitter canceled him, but he makes good music)

ari lennox (not unattractive, but she's not really attractive either)

syd (she and the internet should've been bigger IMO)

I can keep going, SiR, Gallant, Bj the Chicago kid...Rayana Jay (Lizzo took the one fat girl spot), Amber Mark (she's a weird one, sometimes she's attractive, sometimes not so much)

That said, there are also attractive folks making good music who aint popped: Lion Babe

And people who make themselves look like shyt who have popped Ella Mai, SZA

Miguel squashes your theory
.
You cannot win when Drake, The Weeknd, Frank Ocean and Sam Smith occupy those spots.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Xscape, doe.
Missy Elliott, doe.
Macy Gray, doe.
Jill Scott, doe.


I don't wanna keep going, doe.

macy gray wasn't r&b, missy wasn't all r&b + her and macy gray had very artistic looks. xscape tried to look good which was one of my points, jill scott isn't ugly + she always presented herself well.

Miguel squashes your theory
.
You cannot win when Drake, The Weeknd, Frank Ocean and Sam Smith occupy those spots.

this wasn't about them being pop stars, it's about them being big r&b stars. and miguel isn't ugly, a lot of women find him attractive on some prince shyt...

 

[Taadow]

macy gray wasn't r&b, missy wasn't all r&b + her and macy gray had very artistic looks. xscape tried to look good which was one of my points, jill scott isn't ugly + she always presented herself well.

this wasn't about them being pop stars, it's about them being big r&b stars. and miguel isn't ugly, a lot of women find him attractive on some prince shyt...

You're splitting hairs...
but this is yo' party, so get fly if you want to.

 

[Cynic]

macy gray wasn't r&b, missy wasn't all r&b + her and macy gray had very artistic looks. xscape tried to look good which was one of my points, jill scott isn't ugly + she always presented herself well.

this wasn't about them being pop stars, it's about them being big r&b stars. and miguel isn't ugly, a lot of women find him attractive on some prince shyt...

R&B hasn't been dominant since the end of Jodeci. It gets shunned by cacs except when british ones do it.

Miguel still isn't as huge as Frank or Weeknd so this isn't about attractiveness