I'm not sure how to take that, in light of my last comment, but I'm pretty sure it's a compliment. I'd go from a 5 to a solid 7 or 8.
I just meant that I've seen many, many pictures over the years, and the thing I always remember is that if it's a professional photo, then this is what someone decided was the best they were going to look. Hair, make-up, clothes, even posture and facial expression. I'm talking about females only, of course. I couldn't give a shit what guys look like. Anyway, it's just a fact of nature that not everyone's in the top half of the scale. Law of averages says that most people are in the middle somewhere. But watching them onstage, even in a video or on TV, if they're really delivering, really into it, I usually think "Holy shit, I would be all over that!" The emotion evoked from musical performance shows on their face, and someone could easily go from a 7 to a 10.