I do think the overtly sexual schtick is off-putting. I don't like it from Steel Panther either. But I do think that the "focus on our hot singer" thing is easier to overcome when the music is better. To define what I mean by "not mathematically bad," it's because I don't quite know why I don't like this or a few other bands that have popped up in recent times. Check some of the examples I gave...there are bands in metal that I can't say "THEY SUCK" because I don't think there's anything wrong with them. Trivium, Revocation, Black Dahlia Murder, Lazarus A.D., Halestorm, Divine Heresy, Battlecross, and others that aren't doing anything inherently wrong with their music, nothing that's "not metal..." I just can't get into it. And I can't say I don't like it because it's "generic," because believe me I like a lot of death metal and black metal that at the end of the day is pretty generic when compared to similar artists. I like plenty of bands with female singers and female members, so it's not that I just don't like "girl bands" or whatever. So to better explain my point of view - yeah I think over-sexualizing the frontman/woman is off-putting because it puts image too far ahead of music (image can be important, and part of the experience, but it shouldn't be the only selling point..........unless you're GWAR). And I think that if the music isn't there I'm not going to be a fan of the band anyway, regardless of image.
