I think there is a surprising amount of pressure on men within the pop genre to have a good body and good fashion sense, maybe even to the extent where it is more important than the music they produce.
There is also a visible sexualisation of certain male artists such as Jason Derulo, he is known to have a very good body and because of that he is often shirtless in his videos such as the one for 'trumpets', shown above, in which both he and his love interest are sexualised to add to his appeal, this shows that sexualisation is visible in both male and female pop artists.
There also seems to be a lot of pressure for male pop artists to wear nice clothes and to have a good fashion sense, I believe this is causing male artists to become rather feminine in how they act towards their clothing and there hair due to the criticism they may receive if it is not perfect. However, as always there is an exception to this rule, some male artists such as Macklemore decide to go against the fashion conscious pop artists and wear whatever they want and not worry what others think about it, for instance this blue caped ensemble, shown above, is not something many other artists would wear due to the comments that would be made but he wears it anyway because it is what he is comfortable in.
Men are not seen as being as promiscuous as women, however their relationships are rather important to the media as people want to know everything about them, an example of this is Harry Styles who is seen as being a bit of a ladies man and has been in a lot of relationships since he became famous, a lot of the women he has dated are also famous which makes people want to know about it more.
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