"No one will love you if you're unattractive"?

Question

So, I've been listening to Melanie Martinez lately. She is a girl who is from the Voice, and has built a career off of making songs that are like extended metaphors. 

One of her songs is basically about how materialistic society has come, and how people go to great lengths to change their appearance so that society will find them more attractive. 

One of of the lines is "No one will love you if you're unattractive" 

Is this true? Is it false? Does it have some truth to it and some falsity? 

Here is the song if anyone is interested.

SomeGuy37 · Accepted Answer

I would say it is TOTALLY true, if you want a shallow, uncaring person that you can be with for a year or two, and then break up, terribly, because they are just an A$$hole!!
REALITY: anything worth having takes time. if you want to be loved, you have to love, and be a good person, and be patient. So many are swept away with BS songs, and social stigmas, and believe all that sht!! That is why the divorce rate is so high!!
Take your time and get to know someone. Don't just have sex on the first, second, or third date!! Wait, and get to know if you really like each other.
Wait for a time when the other is REALLY stressed or upset, and see how you relate!!
When I am with a new girlfriend, and I think I like her, and it sounds terrible, but I want to see her at her worst, on her worst day, and how she is, then!! If I can still see the person I care about, and care, and want to take away her pain, or just hold her hair when she is throwing up, and at her very worst, I think, then, I can really be with this person.
Not like I am going to try to make that terrible day happen, just saying, that is like the ULTIMATE test, for me, to get to that point, knowing. . .

madhatters4 · Accepted Answer

i mean physically unattractive i disagree. you can be loved for sure

but unattractive in personality is different. if you are truly a person with an unattractive person i think it is quit possible that no one will love you

XRabbitHeartX · Accepted Answer

That's not true. Firstly, beauty is subjective. One person could find you attractive; another might not. Therefore, you can't measure your attractiveness accurately. Secondly, plenty of people can love you despite your looks - friends, family etc. The only type of love where attractive is really healthy and crucial is in a romantic relationship and even then I go back to point 1 where beauty is defined differently by people. Lastly it depends on what someone's criteria is for love. I don't see looks as a criteria to love someone. I love someone based off their personality and how they treat me.

Curious_Bitizen · Accepted Answer

It's true and false. We can't deny that we can't be attracted to someone who is physically unattractive just by looking at the person. When you don't know a person, it's only normal not to be attracted to him/her if he/she is not physically attractive. False because once we get to know the person though, our view for that person changes. If he/she has a good behaviour, then you might find that attractive and fall for him/her. If not, then you won't.

I believe that admiring a person just because of his/her looks is for crushes only. Love looks beyond the physical appearance of a person.

SayYes2Courtney · Accepted Answer

It's definitely fair to say that we are all easier to sell when we're attractive. Once you get in people's doors though, it's all about how you perform. But initial attraction has nothing to do with love. We all have the capacity to love anyone no matter how great or bad you look. Just go to Walmart to prove my theory. We are all attracted to beauty and beauty itself is quite subjective. But love is an amoeba.

alor1an · Accepted Answer

i love this song. i have her whole album actually. Anyways, society puts a lot of harsh beauty standards on people. So most people feel that they have to look attractive to get anywhere. It's all about appearances remember? however, there are instances where this is not completely true. still, it's a pain in the @ss.

ak666 · Answer

I put true but I think it's semantics. For a start, I was assuming a romantic kind of love, not a family or deep friend kind of love. Why would anyone go out with or, furthermore, marry someone who they find unattractive?

That said, "attractive" to mean isn't all appearance. There have been girls I've known who initially struck me as being quite plain. After I got to know them, they started to become more attractive to me, but at that point even their looks started to become more appealing to me. I was noticing things about their appearance that I didn't before which, when combined with other characteristics I liked about them (having a mutual interest, a passion, a struggle, etc) started to make them attractive to me.

Oh, and last but not least, I think silicon is bullshit. I dated a girl once who had silicon implants. She looked nice in a dress, but in the bedroom (the most important time for me to find her physically attractive), those boobs felt all weird and unnatural in an off-putting way. People who keep wanting to change their appearance unnaturally are probably doing more harm than good most of the time. Healthy women who stay neat and trim tend to be quite attractive even if they're completely lacking in augmentations.

Phoenix98 · Answer

Well it's important that you and your partner share physical attraction but I mean that's only half the deal. You need to be compatible personality wise and overall that is more important, but physically attraction is important as well. I mean you don't have to be seen as universally pretty or anything but your partner needs to at least be attracted to you in that manner and you to him.

And beauty overall from one person to the other is more or less subjective I suppose you could say the need to be with someone you see a find attractive can be traced back thousands and thousands of years, beauty and good structure was usually the sign of good genetics and to breed the best and bring the best warriors, or hunters or whatever into a tribe or were ever you had to be with the best, someone though would give you superior offspring. And certain body types to us back them resembled certain things such as wider hips was often seen as a sign of fertility and being able to more easily bare children but now we just see them as attractive because they give us the hour glass figure.

So it's not so much that society is more beauty focused or more materialistic in that way, it's just that our perception of the same stuff we've always seen is different, same stuff just resembles different things now a days then it used to. You could say though that we're a lot more obsessed with sex then we used to be and more attracted to beauty to use for that purpose, that would be a fair thing to say.

Scrambledagain · Answer

Really liked that song. Nice chorus:)

My 2 cents, I was just thinking that women always go on about this but men are not allowed to. Like I feel what she is saying in this song, but if this was a song from a male point of view, the guy would be told to man up.

BertMacklinFBI · Answer

there are cases where love has nothing to do with physical attraction (assuming you were referring specifically to physical attraction)

that's where the quote, "love knows no bounds" comes from.

obviously this is not the general public, but I do believe it still exists, no matter how small it may make up for the world.

vonasaurus · Answer

while it's true that the world is much kinder to those who fit the socially-accepted definition of attractive, i don't believe that those who aren't can't be loved as well.

yes, physical attraction is important in a relationship. but what's considered attractive varies from person to person.

shadowlegend · Answer

Attractiveness is subjective, therefore no one can say definitively if someone else is attractive or not, because they will appear different to each person. What you can say is that no one will love you if you don't meet someone who first finds you attractive. (Because we need to be attracted to someone to fall in love).

BabyInACorner · Answer

Some people see supposedly ugly people as attractive because they see the beauty inside them and that much outweighs whats on the outside. Its all about giving people a chance really, if you dont get to know the real them how can you possibly see how attractive they really are?
I speak from experience by the way, I've fallen for many an 'unattractive' person ;-)

Hopefuldreamer8 · Answer

Given my experience, it's mostly true. I am not attractive at all and so far I've never had a guy interested in me. Well, I can't say that for sure, if they have been interested, they've never told me. However, I have never been asked out and any guy I've been interested in has rejected me.

BiscuitesSwag · Answer

Sadly, it's true.
In school there's this girl who's in all honesty butt-ugly and everyone makes fun of her.
Okay, she is dumb too, but still...
If she were attractive most of those bullies would disappear, I'm sure.

luvstoned4him · Answer

There is some truth to it..  I used to find someone her songs creepy but she has really grown on me. Some my favorites are Pacify her, Cry Baby, Dead to me, Soap, Carousel and dollhouse.

RaggaMon · Answer

It's true and false, ugly people get together and love each other but I reckon secretly they wish they were better looking themselves so they could do better! lol

Hawaiikai · Answer

Not always, partially true. like the saying goes, "WHATS ONE MANS TRASH, IS ANOTHER MANS TREASURE." you might be ugly to someone but AMAZINGLY beautiful to another. Like how not every single person thinks the color purple is pretty but only a certain percent. Thats why they always say, be secure with yourself and always compliment yourself. Love yourself, if you're not who else is gona? Right?
However she does have a point in which society is becomming a little upsetting now.

sixnineanon · Answer

I don't agree with that quote because what seems unattractive to us might seem attractive to some other people. There's somebody for somebody.

MsShy87 · Answer

I think that that's false. I'm ugly and I somehow managed to get a boyfriend.

99percentangel · Answer

I love that song, but I disagree with the quote because I've seen some ugly people who still manage to find someone for them.

Anonymous · Answer

Unattractive as in average or ugly? Either way , it's false bc beauty is subjective and second of all looks can only get you so far. They aren't everything. Yes , they're quite important but really personality and who they are as a person is what actually counts at the end of the day. I also see many people i personally find to be "ugly" having many friends and being loved. by the way i freaking ADORE Melanie ❤️ She's an actual queen.

chintita · Answer

felt like clicking the middle just cuz it didn't have the heart emoji it's false anyways

Datboi · Answer

Unattractive means not attractive to SOME people but not everyone. It's just like art, one person thinks the artwork is AWSOME and the other thinks it's a piece of shit and looks horrible. everybody has their own taste/type but just cause u are seen as "ugly" doesn't mean it's true for everyone. Love is always possible (99.99%)

Katie2244 · Answer

beauty is in the eye of the beholder. different people have different views on what makes someone attractive and in anything long term personality is very important. people will love you for who you are not what you looks like

Dtegesd123 · Answer

It is somewhat true. You don't have to be attractive to many people, but I can't imagine falling in love with someone I don't find the least bit attractive.

But on a friendship/family type of love. looks do not play a part and shouldn't

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