Image affects you.

Does image affect what music you do or don't enjoy? If a musician or music group appears smart, sexy, cool, tough, dark, or eccentric, are you more liking to check their music out? Are you more likely to enjoy it? If allowing image to affect your opinion positively is bad, does the same go for it affecting your opinion negatively? Would the following artists be as popular as they are this year if projecting an image weren't a central part of promoting their music?

Odd Future
Lana Del Rey
Lil B
A$AP Rocky

Are image and music inseparable sometimes? Is that OK? Is blurring the line between image and music the future? Is image something we can't avoid? Does image enhance the musical experience?

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[G315HA]

why are comments on this channel's videos so long ?

[frantastickid]

@TrueGamer14 In the words of Immortal Technique:

If your message ain't shit, fuck the records you sold

'Cause if you go platinum it's got nothing to do with luck

It just means that a million people are stupid as fuck

[SpecificSpecificity]

I think Images can be an influence on me. For example, I decided to click on the new SBTRKT album because of the cool mask, and I like the music. I don't think it's a bad thing unless the artist(s) focus only on imagery and appearance.

For (not the best) example The Black Eyed Peas work so hard on creating a cool appearance, while their music is devoid of substance.

I can like music that has images attached to it, but I don't like music only based on it's imagery.

[abelineshis]

it totally does, just ask gestalt, as long as our eyes and minds work, every image on front of our perception affects us one way or another..

[CanwllCorfe615]

I'd say so. I've downloaded albums based directly off of album art (which is how I found Arms & Sleepers, Amesoeurs, Uyama Hiroto, and Flica). I know back when I was first getting into black metal, the controversy surrounding the church burnings and whatnot really spurred my interest in it. So much violence! So much darkness! And I know it was similar to my experience with DSBM. Seeing so many album covers with nooses, razor blades, blood, etc. was pretty damn intense.

[Lop7dh]

All the image is per definition false. When it's the same thing as image but in fact true, it's style. So, if you're affected by image in any way you're being mislead, tricked, decieved, fukken lied to. But before you can tell, you have to know what is image and what isn't. Since it's very hard to know, different for every band, etc, etc, I think it's way better to just listen to the music honestly. Don't look at the artists. Don't look at their videos. Because that's not music.

[BrimstoneLandscapes]

Image can be a good way to identify things you want to try out since bands usually use aesthetics that match the music, so if you dig the aesthetics, there's a good chance you'll dig the music as well. For example, I hate metalcore and the bright cartoony imagery I see on metalcore band tees absolutely repulses me, while I love black metal and the high contrast grayscale imagery of forests and landscapes used on a lot of BM covers are visually appealing to me.

[GorgonDrageil]

(cont.)

But to answer the question, I think image has affected me greatly. To be honest, I have drawn much of my stylistic inspiration over the years from artists who made music that I loved. Though I don't feel like style has an effect on how I view music or any particular artist because, if I think somethings bullshit, I won't put up with it. And trust me, there are plenty of beautiful disasters in music these days.

No matter how pretty the packaging may be, crap is crap...

[GorgonDrageil]

I would just like to point out that the last question was grammatically incorrect. It should have been written as: ''Does image AFFECT you?'' or ''Does image have an effect on you?''

Excuse me for being an anal grammar asshole :P but I had to point that out lol.

[shanegedekoh]

Yes, image affects me. It does not, however, affect my opinion of the music itself but, definitely my opinion of the people making the music. I often check out artists for the first time based solely on their album art / promo pictures, and their name (or combo of both).

[blickluke]

I dont follow musicians on fb, twitter etc, and i dont watch music videos or care to much about what they look like