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I loved them because I was just a kid and I grew up on that music. When I first started listening to the radio you either got a choice of New Kids on the Block, Vanilla Ice (YUCK!!!) or Poison, Ratt, Motley Crue, etc. No self respecting kid I went to school with, listened to anything else. That was just the sign of the times. Seriously, what was a 12 year old supposed to listen to? Where I grew up, we didn't have many options back then. To my knowledge and memory, we had 2 or 3 rock stations, 1 country station and 1 pop/rap station. I don't regret the music. But seriously, what were they thinking when they applied all of that make up?! Gross.
My problem with the music today is that it has turned novelty again. I know a bunch of people who hated it back then (including family members who are oldre than me) love it now because it is so cool to love the 80s.
There are also teenagers out there who weren't even born yet who love Bret Michaels because of Rock of Love. And they never knew his music.
A family friend who is now 24 loved Bon Jovi but never heard "Living on a Prayer."
The popularity of hair bands coincided with MTV. There was a marked difference in the kinds of groups that could get signed pre-MTV and those who got signed after. We define those new bands is based on their appearance, but their music was also more danceable than typical rock bands pre-MTV. The down side was dance music can't be too complex, The upside is it was boon for rock cover bands. Finally you didn't have to play like Hendrix, Santana, Page or Clapton to be in a band. I wonder if this trend forced many would be rock guitar virtuosos into a re-emergence of Blues Based rock and instrumental rock via Satriani
I prefer those bands that was big in the first half of the eighties.
It started to change around 1987 or 1988 when we were flooded with poppy power ballad bands and even poppier acoustic power ballads.
It is sometimes said that grunge killed metal,but I think they did fine on there own with those bands.
If they even should be counted as metal....
Also it seems like every hard rock band of the eighties with a little colour in their clothes counts as hair metal which I don´t agree with.
Some (like Mötley Crüe and Twisted Sister) is just regular heavy metal to me,although more melodic at times.
They should definitely not be put in the same category as White Lion and such bands.
In my opinion hair metal has always been a derogatory term for the aforementioned power ballad bands.
My problem with the music today is that it has turned novelty again. I know a bunch of people who hated it back then (including family members who are oldre than me) love it now because it is so cool to love the 80s.
There are also teenagers out there who weren't even born yet who love Bret Michaels because of Rock of Love. And they never knew his music.
A family friend who is now 24 loved Bon Jovi but never heard "Living on a Prayer."
It's just looking like a joke to me.
Clarifying what I mean. "My problem with the music today": referring to the new music being put out by the old hair bands.
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