Well, i can only agree with you on that, i would also rather watch an 18 year old woman with a good body ánd talent instead of a 27 year old morbidly obese guy who most of the time plays keyboard in the key of C, so ehh..

But that's not the point. The point is that the perception of talent is different because of her looks, because she's a woman.

It was a good performance for sure! But it wasn't THAT good that it deserved the amount of views that it has in my opinion.

Gary Mullen is a fantastic Freddie Mercury impersonator, just listen to this:


This guy sounds closer to Freddie than Marc does, do you see the amount of views? FOUR THOUSAND, because he's not a good looking person and because in the eye of "The People" HE is seen as merely a Freddie Mercury impersonator, while Marc Martel is seen as a completely different singer from that standpoint..

And with women it's roughly the same although men seem to think from a different standpoint since an ugly woman with boobs is still... a woman with boobs, and then you don't get the whole "She does/doesn't have talent" discussion but then they get seen as an object.

Even if there was a woman singing as bad as a drunk Elton John with bursted nodules with a flat chest and a hoodie on she would still get lots of great comments and likes and people would love what she was doing because well.. She's a woman. If a guy was doing that people would be shitting all over it, downvoting it, trolling on there, hating every inch of it..

And that's the difference imo.