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Then Influence of Image on Music

How a musician appears does appear to be an essential issue for nearly all individuals. I’m one of those who’d disagree and say the music has become easily the most crucial thing. But let us delve deeper into the situation.

The music business and record labels, specifically, are having to be somewhat picky about which bands and artists that they choose as there are many fantastic musicians operating the regional scenes right now. This usually means they must choose who is the most marketable and for that reason, rewarding. Now, this was determined only on musical skill and imagination but over the years this attention has moved into the picture of someone and the way they match the demographic and music they’re being promoted to.

I really like metal and rock, but let us look at several other genres of songs and the way the artists are anticipated and, in several cases, compelled to seem.

Pop songs artists will be expected to be role models for the younger generation. They are typically good looking and have bright white teeth, flawless skin, and well-styled hair. Nearly all of this can be accomplished with cosmetics, professional hairdressers, and teeth-whitening procedures. They’re also expected to act the ideal way, to function as the ‘ideal person’ that kids want to be like. A Good Deal of folks I talked to stated that this Provides a false picture to the younger generation as well as the overall consensus was

“I bet each of these pop stars would be so dreadful people and seem like garbage when they are not in the spotlight!”

This speaks volumes for me and the younger generation ought to be searching for different idols from life.

Even the’darker’ side of this musical picture is the stone, punk metal & grunge scenes. These musicians have, historically, not cared what people believe and can practically get away with wearing anything they desired. But more recently they’ve been pushed by the record labels that need a specific image or from the frequent notion about these musicians must look like.

Rock, grunge, and metal ring members are expected to put on black/dark clothes and have a lot of visible tattoos and piercings. Occasionally even outrageous makeup and hairstyles. This strain has mounted since the late 1960s.

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The prevalence of tattoos and piercings has increased exponentially during the past couple of decades and it is apparent in the style of music. A woman wouldn’t have been permitted to possess a lot of visible tattoos twenty-five decades back unless she had been among these “rebellious punk chicks” Nowadays it’s a really typical thing for many individuals to have a high number of tattoos and piercings whatever the gender they identify as. Even companies are having to alter how they see possible employees. Having tattoos previously would have supposed you had no opportunity in a job interview but with the manner in which the picture of artists has shifted, so has the general public view.

Mentioning punks there informs me about the punk scene from the eighties and nineties with artists sporting cut lace coats and large Mohicans (either side of their mind have been shaven, leaving a strip of clearly more hair at the middle, gelled and spiked up) that was quite commonly replicated, even by girls (I know, just how outrageous was !). Subsequently came the grunge scene of the nineties together with the fans after the artists’ sway by wearing black clothes, dark cosmetics such as hypoallergenic eyeliner (guyliner, for guys), much more tattoos and frequently dying their hair (mine was gloomy and scruffy).

As I have mentioned in the following guide, there are many different genres around today and the artists are having to search for that form of music. As an example, you wouldn’t find a musician at a rockabilly fashion ring wearing all black and white being covered in tattoos and piercings. They must have the ideal picture.

Classical and opera artists must get suited and booted. All dressed in formal wear equally when on point and at any moment they’re in the public eye.

The opposite end of the spectrum is all rap artists, that generally appear scruffy. The picture of those musicians is of those baggy clothes, large rings, and chains, in addition to rather distinctive hairstyles; a few have golden teeth!

Researching the backdrop and general public view of this picture of music actually does reveal these musicians will be expected to use the proper clothing and fashions of the form of music that they perform.

The majority of the strain is placed on the general people but there’s a reasonable amount of strain being put by record companies and the artists’ supervisors. Generally, today, if you would like to play your music, sell downloads & records in addition to building your fan base, then you merely have to abide by the principles of The Image of Music.

Previous and Current Studies Show that Women are Attracted to Musically Inclined Men

In May 2012, researchers at Israel’s Ruppin Academic Center conducted a Facebook experiment to determine if there is truth to a popular mate selection theory related to music. A year later, Université de Bretagne-Sud researchers conducted a similar experiment. The French researchers’ focus, was to find out if there is truth to the notion that musical ability, makes a man attractive to women in the context of real-life courtship.

Years later, In September 2017, a similar study was conducted by researchers from 2 universities in Austria. This time, their goal was to test whether or not Charles Darwin’s hypothesis is true, which was premised on theory that music directionally points to a person’s biological, rather than physical attractiveness.

Ruppin Academic Center’s Facebook Experiment

Israeli researchers Sigal Tifferet, Ofir Gaziel, and Yoav Baram created two Facebook accounts for an attractive young man, but using a different profile picture for each FB account. One profile pic showed the gorgeous guy holding a guitar, while in the other pic, Mr. Gorgeous was not holding anything.

On each account, the researchers then sent out 50 “Friend Requests” to 100 different female FB users listed as single. The supposedly guitar-playing good looker gained 14 new female friends. In contrast, only 5 accepted the 50 “Friend Requests” sent out via the FB account with a guitarless profile pic.

On a different angle, the same FB experiment was conducted, but this time using a femme fatale as friend requester. The researchers found out that with or without a guitar, both had no direct effect in having the female’s “Friend Request” accepted.

Based on those results, the Israeli researchers concluded that as far as enhancing one’s attractiveness is concerned, an indication of musical ability works only for men.

Université de Bretagne-Sud Sexual Selection Experiment

French researchers Jacques Fischer-Lokou, Nicolas Guéguen and Sébastien Meineri employed a different technique in conducting their experiment. A true-to-life good-looking young man was asked to approach 300 young women on the streets. He played out 3 scenarios, in which he approached 100 women to tell each girl that she is pretty and then ask for their phone number. In each scenario, the young man had either a guitar, a gym bag or nothing at all in his hand.

The results for each were tabulated, showing that 31 percent of the women approached via the guitar-in-hand scenario gave their phone number; the gym-bag-in-hand technique worked only on 9 percent of the women approached. The nothing-at-all fared better, as the technique worked on 14 percent of the women. The experiment concluded that more women are inclined to prefer men with musical ability.

Austrian Universities Conduct a Study to Test Darwin’s Biological Attractiveness Theory

A team of researchers coming from the University of Innsbruck and University of Vienna in Austria worked on a hypothesis posed by Charles Darwin, premised on the theory that music can influence a person’s perception of attractiveness when choosing a potential mate. Sixty-four women and 32 men, all heterosexuals were presented photographs of the opposite sex, whilst exposed to different musical instruments as stimulus.

Based on the results, Dr. Manuela Marin from the University of Innsbruck who carries out researches on Cognitive Psychology, Experimental Psychology and Emotion, and who was leader of the research team, concluded that arousal transfers can occur if 2 types of stimuli are processed one after another. The first stimulus creates internal arousal, which can influence the second stimulus.

“This mostly unconscious mechanism can then influence our actions, in this case, the choice of a partner.”