How far will looks getcha?
In the music biz it’s like sales, it’ll get your foot in the door but then you gotta come up with the goods.
The question arises because whenever a pretty girl shows up to woo the world, the world might wonder if what we want from her is sex or sound. If you couldn’t see Ke$ha wouldja still like her? Since you can see Susan Boyle dya take those opinions to bed with your “Wild Horses”.
Look at it this way: Hopw can you take the sex out of Presley? He personified teenage lust and he drove the girls insane and if he didn’t if he looked like Bill Haley, would he still have been Presley?
The sexuality, his sizzle, was packaged into the pop: the swivvle of the hip and the sneer, the trademarks of indiscrimante (and certainly premarital) lust were what started the package: were what the girls were coming for. They wanted to fuck him and since they wanted to fuck him, since they were reacting with their eyes as well as their ears, surely if he hadn’t looked like what he looked like, would the music have sold as well? Absolutely not. Presley got his rock and roll authenticity as much from his hips as his lungs.
Which leads me back to Ke$ha. If ke$ha was Sarah McClaughlin, if she was singing about the bonds of emotional attachment as opposed to the ties of sexual indiscrimination, who physical attractiveness might matter but it wouldn’t matter the same way. To be sexy while singing about sex is, just like with Presley, to add a reality to an entertainment process.
So the simple answer is physical attractiveness only matters as far as it adds to your authenticity of sound.