I often see music companies asking for attractive people who can sing.

That may not be the exact word they use but translation can be difficult.

I have even applied for such jobs myself, but never made the grade. They blamed my singing, but.

Even if they don't say it, they do follow pre-conceived criteria of which looks is very important.

OK he may have been better off just looking for female singers and then make his selection taking into account what the person looks like.

We are talking about the entertainment industry not a job at tesco's.

As Big Jim pointed out...

1. providing pleasure or delight, esp. in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring: an attractive personality.

2. arousing interest or engaging one's thought, consideration, etc.: an attractive idea; an attractive price.

3. having the quality of attracting.

If you are putting together a clean-cut girl band, you don't want punks to apply. Time is important to us all. Probably more so record companies.

Also as Big Jim said, "I think the problem is more a language and cultural misunderstanding".

My daughter in law is also from Ukraine, and even though she speaks very good English (been here a while) she does tend to translate in a real literal fashion.

She was telling me one day, having reached the age of 40, that she was having 'A Mid-Life Crisis'....

What she actually said was, 'Roy, I have reached 40 and am having what you call "A Big Climax".

I won't tell you how difficult it was to explain the difference. Just to say that in the dictionary, taken from a non-English POV. The meanings may be the same in some respects.

Another friend of mine wanted to say that his curry sauce had a wonderful fragrance. What he printed in his menus was 'Our Sauce, Has A Wonderful Odor". In the dictionary it is listed.

So all I'm saying is cut the guy a break. He is repeating what the record company has asked for.

By the way Alek a really good FREE songwriting software is

http://www.bryantmcgill.com/Free_Rhyming_Dictionary/Download_Now/?source=update

Just click download and follow the link.

I have been using it for a while. It has dictionary etc.

God Bless Roy and Helen

'You Have To Kiss A Lot Of Frogs To Find A Prince'