Jrock, if you were blind.

If the world went blind and all memory of their looks erased from the public, the vast majority of female stars would go out of bussiness.

Though who knows, maybe the imagination will convince folk that every female singing voice belongs to a goddess on earth, much in the same vein some folk can convince themselves someone other an IM is really hot.

I've listened to Dir En Grey and Malice Mizer for a while before searching for their pics... So I think it would be the same for me, to me appareance is not very important; if I like a band or an artist I like them for their music and for the emotions that they give to me everytime that I liten to them ^^

Well, I discovered JRock after listening to Kotani Kinya and wanting more Japanese music. I did this by finding this one website and looking up any males on there (I normally don't like female voices much, if at all), so, thusly, if I was blind, I probably wouldn't be listening to them because I wouldn't have introduced myself to them. However, if they were introduced to me in a different way, I'd probably like them. Kind of difficult to know for sure though. Being blind kind of changes a person and all and, if I was born blind, I'd be a completely different person with different tastes and stuff I'm sure. However, if I suddenly went blind now after I already know about JRock and am I fan of it, I'd remain a fan. I love the music and, although they are rather nice to look at and all, I think I'd be weeping over more important things than loosing the ability to see hot guys to really care. If I went blind, music would mean so much more to me I think. Music creates images in my head and I often go off into day dreams listening to it and if I lived in eternal darkness, I'd very much like to be in a day dream for as long and often as possible. The music would probably just become even more beautiful to me and I'd become an even bigger fan of it, if my fandom was to change at all.

Jeez...That was long-winded...

Part 1: I always listen to the music before looking at pictures, I have a annoying person in my school who claims to be a Jrock fan but she only likes the way they look :auch:
Part 2: I have Chinese, English, French and my friend will tell me some good Indian bands/singers
Part 3: Well...not important I guess...but I do love Pretty Jrockers

-cough- I forgot the answers to the others:

Part Two: I listen to English bands all the time and I also listen to Rammstein a lot. I, in no way, just restrict myself to Japanese music and I only have a couple of Chinese ones (Silver Ash, yo!). I also like the sound of tribal African music and other stuff like that, although I don't have any at all. I also have a couple of French songs. I really don't care about anything trivial like the hotness factor of a musician or the lanaguage he or she sings in. I only care if the music and the voice are good.

Part Three: I don't consider the look of an artist or band at all, let alone base any importance in it. Sure, if a band looked like Britney Spears clones and sang songs that were a cross between Rammstein and Marilyn Manson (or vice versa), it would be kind of odd and all, but as long as the music was good I wouldn't mind. Now if the hotness of musicians was what was meant by that as well, sure, it's nice to have hot people to drool over as you listen to good music. That's just a basic fact. Nevertheless, it doesn't effect the music, especially when you aren't watching music videos or lives as you can't see them anyway. It's just a bonus and an unnecessary one at that. It's all just about the music.

Part 1->In my opinion I must accept I love Jrocker's looks, I mean who doesnt! BUT definetly if I couldnt see them, they would be still important, because I felt in love with their music, that was what made me like Jrock.
I really sometimes find myself totally lost while listening to specific songs, the music and the voice make me forget everything that sorrounds me, and I just concentrate in the sound, so I dont think not knowing how they look will make a diference for me

Part 2->I do listen to many other artists as well, I love mexican music, for example, I must accept I like cumbias and banda , Mariachis?? WOW the best!! haha, I like some american bands as well, just found out about a finnish band ( I think) called Lordi and they are ok I still listen to some old artists such as The Beatles and Bonnie Tyler. Besides I love to dance latin music in general

Part 3-> I like pretty Jrockers but is not like THE MOST important thing in a band, first the music then the looks!

I always listen to the music first rather than base my music tastes on looks. If I did base on looks then I would have a really bad music collection.

When I got into JRock I had just randomly downloaded some songs. I had no idea what they looked like but I really really liked the songs so I kept downloading. It was the music and the amazing vocals that made me like bands like Luna Sea, L'arc~en~ciel, and Dir en grey to name a few. Sometimes the look of the band would turn me off or I would find certain members unattractive. But since I liked the music so much, the look would grow on me and I would begin to think that all the members were hot (I think talent makes a person very sexy hehehe)

Sometimes the look of the band would attract me to them and I would listen to their music. But eventually, if I didn't like the music I would not be crazy about the band and the members themselves.

if i was blind i wouldnt be online. if i wouldnt be online i never would have gotten to chat with my aunt in msn. if i wouldnt have chatted with my aunt in msn i couldnt ever candidate to a camp in germany. if i cant be able to go to that camp i couldnt have met a wonderful friend there! if i wouldnt have that wonderful friend i could never have a penpal. if i never had her for penpal i wouldnt never read the band name ''dir en grey''. if i never have heard that i never could hear them. becaus i was blind .
i hope i made sense with that.
well shortly: if i was blind i just wouldnt be here becaus i wouldnt be able to be online. and so on..
i hope everyone understood .
ANYWAY i really dont know if i was blind and listen to jrock becaus maybe i wouldnt hear it or i would hear something but the song isnt very good, so i wouldnt be interested.
plus estonian radios only play estonian or english music -_-, so it would be pretty impossible that, yeah...

Wow, this thread is kind of old but very interesting isn't it!

If you're talking literally, well then, if I was blind I wouldn't have been online and would therefore never have discovered the existence of Jrock - probably. But I get the feeling that the OP was really asking "How important is the look to you?" which is a different thing... *nods*

I can honestly say that the appearance of the musicians makes no difference whatsoever to whether I like or dislike music. So, supposing that I was blind and I had a friend who could introduce me to various bands; if that was the case, the bands I would like would be exactly the same ones I enjoy now.

There was one case where I listened to a band because their look caught my attention. That case is SID; as it happened I liked their sound and I continue to listen to them. :music: If I'd been introduced to them by their music first, I'd still have liked it.

For many bands that I listen to, I have honestly no idea what they look like.

Equally, I listen to a lot of bands that don't have a visual element to their presentation, or at least, no more than all bands do (even 'plain' looking bands, such as boy bands, and those who dress in casual clothes, have some consideration of their visual image in presentation to the public! ).

I haven't read through this thread from the beginning, but people on this page mentioned non-Japanese music that they listen to... I like to listen to music from various different countries (the language doesn't make any difference to me, so I'll just go by whether I like the sound). I have a lot of CDs of 'old-style' British and American rock and metal (probably most of my collection is these, as that was the first style which got me interested in music other than classical). There are so many countries it seems like an impossible task for me sometimes to find out about everything I want to investigate! At the moment I'm particularly enjoying discovering French bands. I also like various Scandinavian metal bands, plus Rammstein haihai: ) and Moonspell (who are Portuguese). In addition I'm discovering other British and American bands all the time. I have an increasing interest in industrial and electronica, which is leading me in American music at the moment. But my investigations change all the time...

Damn right it would! I didn't even know how they looked when I first heard them and started to like them. I was quite confused to find out that some men wore dresses And to be honest, when I first saw Dir en grey, I thought that Die was the singer bcuz the singer sounded so... tall and manly.... and that Kyo was the drummer, I could really picture him behind a pair of drums banging away like the mad man he is

While you may all say appearance doesn't matter, I seriously doubt there'd be any fangirls/boys if, say, Toshiya and Hyde and etc. were grotesquely ugly freaks.

There might not be fangirls/boys, but damn sure there'd still be fans.

Right on Kinsao!

hell no it wouldn't matter.. I listened to seikima-ii for a year before I knew what they looked like. LMAO good thing too. It's all about the music for me.