Opera and Musicals are inherently visual. And Opera singers are not necessarily pretty. Nobody cares what the pianist looks like :) To be fair: Taylor Swift a

Opera and Musicals are inherently visual. And Opera singers are not necessarily pretty. Nobody cares what the pianist looks like :) To be fair: Taylor Swift and Beyonce - if you see them totally without makeup, are not super attractive, they look in the range of fairly normal. Also there's a double standard for men and women to some extent. Top male artist right now is Ed Sheeran and he is one ugly mofo, then again, to my point - he's highly talented ... when he's not writing pop tunes 'designed for a mass audience' he does some cool stuff. On Charlie Rose he basically admitted he writes a lot of stuff for commercial purposes, it's a business.