Any time you walk into a mall or a high school campus the first thing you notice is a very disturbing amount of children wearing brightly colored t-shirts, brightly colored and very skinny jeans, old school nike's in various bright, neon colors, and very odd hair in various colors, as well as brightly colored sunglasses. At first sight one might think (maybe the kid's truly aren't alright) but then when you examine the looks of the bands on most of their ipod's one quickly realizes that not only are they dressing ridiculously, but they are inspired by musicians who dress equally as ridiculous.
I can imagine in the 80's what it was like to work at a mall and see teenagers walking around in spandex with a ripped poison shirt and incredibly tall poofy hair and think "what a douche" much like today when you see a kid in a light blue devil wears prada shirt with pink kanye west glasses, purple skinny jeans, light blue, neon yellow, neon pink, and neon green, high-top nikes and numerous brightly colored spiked belts.
With that being said...i have always found it hilarious the similarities between the 80's hair metal scene where poison, motley crue, poofy hair, and leather and spandex reigned supreme, and the 21st century Screamo-Crunk explosion of underage kids listening to music that mixes hip hop and screamo singing about "gettin' beeotches" and "par-taying down" and "gettin' crunk".
So join me while i compare/contrast the ridiculousness of 2 of the most retarded sub-genres in music history
At the heart of every good musical movement...other than the music is of course the fashion. People see these bands on mtv and are awe-struck how...different they look...so what better way to really feel the music you're heroes play...then by DRESSING LIKE THEM! In fact, in genre's like hair metal and screamo-crunk, really the music isn't that important to people...it's all about looking cool and whatnot so of course people are going to dress like their favorite bands if it gets them laid...or at least...lots of attention.
First lets take a look at the fashion of your typical hair metal band that...a fashion that was really the main focus of hair metal, which shows why the music was so terrible...because you don't have to be talented to look cool and get signed.
First of all, the dude on the right...gotta love that hair...the guy in the center has the sweet studded leather clothing, and the long poofy blonde hair.
The focal point of this look is the leather, and studs, and the hair...which, though it may look ridiculous, i'm sure they got more poon than i could ever dream of just based on this look.
Next...let's take a look a band i'm sure you'll recognize.
Really this one needs no commentary because it pretty much speaks for itself. Poison were by far the most retarded of the hair metal movement, of course they also sold retarded amounts of albums.
This band also pretty much speaks for itself.
Motley Crue were by far my favorite hair metal band...and the only one that really mattered.
Oh, and who could forget...the world's finest christian hair metal band...
Gotta love the yellow and black attack
Of course not every hair metal era band was going for the over the top retarded look...but still achieved it anyways.
Example A:
You can't help but appreciate how Whitnesnake are trying to look cool...but also manly...i think they sort of failed at both of those really...thank god they wrote good songs!
Example B:
Faster Pussycat, aren't as talented as whitesnake, and actually they looked a bit stupider as well.
As far as screamo crunk goes...the fans are just as ridiculous as the artists so lets focus a bit on the people that listen to screamo crunk.
Most people that listen to the type of music that mixes rap, screamo, and techno aren't exactly normal...and neither is their fashion...
Typically most fans of this type of music are 12-16 year old girls with either parents who hate them and don't pay attention to them...or parents who spoil them and let them dress how they want so they don't hate them...much like the following enterprising young ladies...
Of course...this is my favorite picture of them all.
Of course boys that listen to this type of music also dress the part...
need i say more?
Now, of course in the screamo-crunk genre the artists have fashion equally as deplorable as their fans...however i'm not going to focus on that right now because you'll see plenty of that on display in a minute.
NOW...
the best part of these genres are the music videos where you actually get to see the artists spill their personality and ridiculousness out into your living room.
First...let's take a look at the hair metal videos, which are all quite humorous...mostly because they came right around the time when music videos were first being made, so this genre was the first to really reveal itself and it's style through music videos.
*some videos i can't embed, but are totally worth clicking the link to watch*
Motley Crue - Girls Girls Girls
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
Warrant - Cherry Pie
Slaughter - Up All Night
Of course, i actually enjoy most of those songs...but the videos are quite ubiquitous...but if that's what you like than you're in for a treat...
Now, i present to you a screamo crunk videography
First, i present to you...the band that put screamo-crunk on the map
Hollywood Undead - Everywhere I Go
Hollywood Undead, are kind of the Led Zeppelin, of screamo-crunk, they are the biggest selling act in a genre that is A: pointless, and B: ever growing in popularity.
Next, is the group millionaires...i randomly stumbled across them on youtube one night and my brain hasn't been the same since...
Millionaires - Alcohol
Yes...that's 3 young ladies rapping about sex, drugs, and alcohol...
Next is Brokencyde...a band beloved by 12-16 year olds everywhere who are by far the most ridiculous and retarded of the entire genre
If you managed to make it all the way through that video without vomiting then i applaud you...or abhore you.
Now...for the really good one...i present to you...
3Oh!3 is becoming increasingly huge, and i sell at least 1 cd by them every day at work...mostly it's parents that have to buy it for their 16 year old because they don't love them or their taste in music.
And just for the hell of it i want to post a couple of other random videos that i find entertaining like this wonderful fan created video for a song by Dot Dot Curve
Also, who could forget about Jeffree Star...the cross dressing gay man with pink hair that makes money singing snotty dance pop songs and schmoozing with disney stars...and let's not forget that this abomination is also doing warped tour this year along with alot of the other groups mentioned in this section (not the hair metal bands of course)
haha....
I think when you really break the 2 genre's down...it's horribly apparent that screamo-crunk is much less significant to the musical landscape than hair metal, although both come with mind-numbingly terrible repercussions...like most of the old hair metal fans who now still go see all those bands live and have lost most of their brain cells from that decade but not their gang of unwanted children and "kix f*ckin rules!" and "twisted sister 4 ever!" tattoos...but that's much better than the consequences that will come from a generation of youth growing up on screamo-crunk which will inspire them to become drug-addicted, alcoholic, brightly colored, homosexual wiggers with Hollywood Undead and Brokencyde tattoos
Your picture of Whitesnake shows the swedish band Europe actually.
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