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

[Buckeye Fever]

Yuna is cute...I think I was more disappointed to find out she was asian/Malaysian

Dont get me wrong, she's not ugly

 

[010101]

folks have the aura of thrift store wardrobe shopping ass nikkas

only room for one or two corny granola mainstream stars at a time

there is a defined limit on how much mustiness & patchouli the public consciousness can endure at once ha

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[jshani]

Fam, you got Ari fukked all the way up

 

[bigillwill06]

I honestly think its not even really about how you look now. Look at the bad bytches like tinashe who still have no success as well.

 

[Ol’Otis]

body is nice tho

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

this is true now, but men bought r&b/soul well into the 00's...that's for another thread, when did males become too hard to buy/listen to r&b soul...

PND, Brent Faiyaz, Xavier Omar, and Bryson tiller

what a lot of men don't listen to is female rnb singers

 

[Lord Beasley]

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.

tbf cardi has a machine, ma could've had that but she chose to take it slow. she could've dropped verses on multiple hits if she wanted to.

everything else u said is pretty accreate, unless the artist has a machine behind them. i dont find lizzo attractive at all and i dont know any woman that wants to be her.....but the plant game is scrong

 

[Premeditated]

I don't know

a guy like Lucky Day can see pretty well conventionally. and is decent live. but he ain't blown up.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

PND, Brent Faiyaz, Xavier Omar, and Bryson tiller

what a lot of men don't listen to is female rnb singers

and my point still stands, men had some janet jackson back in the day, aretha franklin, toni braxton, TLC, erkykah badu...men used to listen to and buy all types of soul/r&b

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Fam, you got Ari fukked all the way up

that's not how ari wears her hair most times, i'm kinda annoyed you chose a pic with her wearing a wig to make a point when 99% of her pics are her with her natural hair. and like i said, she's not unattractive, but she's also not pretty...she is sexy tho and makes good music.

I honestly think its not even really about how you look now. Look at the bad bytches like tinashe who still have no success as well.

like i said to someone else who mentioned her, this is about artists that make good music. tinashe ruined her career by chasing waves, trying to be pop, and dropping weak music (plus she's unlikable...haven't seen a singer so universally disliked like she is in a min...)

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

tbf cardi has a machine, ma could've had that but she chose to take it slow. she could've dropped verses on multiple hits if she wanted to.

everything else u said is pretty accreate, unless the artist has a machine behind them. i dont find lizzo attractive at all and i dont know any woman that wants to be her.....but the plant game is scrong

Fat girls and gay guys want to be lizzo though. They don't need you to want to sleep with her.

That's how it works. In the industry it's disguised as a "market"

 

[Tribal Outkast]

I think the idea is be you. People want regular cats to flourish out here instead of people looking like models trying to sing and rap lol. I Don’t care personally but I think that’s what it is.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Fat girls and gay guys want to be lizzo though. They don't need you to want to sleep with her.

That's how it works. In the industry it's disguised as a "market"

uhhh...dont know about that. but lizzo hit with tons of women, whether she's a plant or not, the girl is talented and came thru with the self esteem anthems that women rock with/be needing...whether you're actually feeling yourself or just trying to pretend you're good. plus her music is uptempo which made her more sound more marketable to pop audiences. i dont know that it was a want to be her or fukk her thing going on so much as she just brought the right songs to women at the right time

I think the idea is be you. People want regular cats to flourish out here instead of people looking like models trying to sing and rap lol. I Don’t care personally but I think that’s what it is.

except all the female rappers right now all look like models/instathots...crazy how it used to be reverse, female rappers were rougher looking (or could be) while the r&b stars were glam, now it's the opposite

 

[Zero]

 

[Tribal Outkast]

uhhh...dont know about that. but lizzo hit with tons of women, whether she's a plant or not, the girl is talented and came thru with the self esteem anthems that women rock with/be needing...whether you're actually feeling yourself or just trying to pretend you're good. plus her music is uptempo which made her more sound more marketable to pop audiences. i dont know that it was a want to be her or fukk her thing going on so much as she just brought the right songs to women at the right time

except all the female rappers right now all look like models/instathots...crazy how it used to be reverse, female rappers were rougher looking (or could be) while the r&b stars were glam, now it's the opposite

I totally agree Good point.