An entertaining read from an entertaining (and valid) viewpoint.
The first time I saw someone wear an Alice Cooper T-Shirt to be cute, I don't think he was doing it out of rebeliousness. I think he was poking fun at Cooper, and possibly, at metalheads in general. And this guy probably appreciated metal.
The thing is, many of us are living in a sort of musical renaissance. There's a lot of great current music, but more importantly, there is suddenly a tremendous amount of AVAILABLE music. Opening our minds to the possibilites of numerous genres and musical approaches frees us from the faulty thinking that accompanies the deification of a singular form of music. There's some great metal out there. I also think there's a lot of great country music. However, a lot of
"metalheads" I've known were metal and nothing more. I felt sorry for them and often viewed the "uniforms" of such individuals as kind of embarrassing if not pathetic. People who limit their own appreciation of life's offerings always become mockeries of themselves.
That being said, I think the author succeeds fabulously at verbalizing common disgusting traits of pop culture and it's shallow conscience. The only thing I want to see Ashlee Simpson do with a Motley Crue shirt is wipe my semen off her ass.
Ashlee is not cute to me, she is a dog dog doggy girl. Pat Benatar, now that was a woman. I wanna see Lemmy sporting a Pat shirt at the next Motorhead gig. Not such a stretch, because Mmotorhead did some recordings with 80s girl glam rock phenom Girlschool and it was not ironic at all. Just weird. as for metalheads who are just metal and only metal, this is I think part of their devotion to the art of steel. Being a soldier in the army of metal requires genuine sacrifice. Many religious analogies come to mind.
Would you believe me if I told you I couldn't actually pick Ashlee out of a lineup of cute-girls-o-the-moment?
Many religious analogies and guitarist murdering whacko militant short-circuit cases.
Dimebag never hurt anyone. In fact, he put proverbial dinners-on-the-table in many a pole-twirlin' g-string (okay, we all know it was more likely powder up the nose than bread on a plate, but still).
It's funny how so many of older punk/indie/weirdo hip music folks are up in arms over Motley Crue, or at least the t-shirts, being popular amongst young people who "weren't there". When back then it seemed like the hip folks totally HATED the Crue, for example Thurston Moore making fun of their cover of Anarchy in the UK in the 1991 movie. I have heard that cover, and it DOES totally blow, still Dr Feelgood is a great jam! But back then they were popular, and more importantly getting overplayed, so I probably would've hated it too!
Familiarity breeds contempt, I remember when I first heard that Hey Ya song by Outkast and I thought it was amazing, now it makes me nauteous!
Hmm, any other half baked points I need to make? Oh yeah, I am SUPER sick of the "death to irony" crowd, irony seems like a total straw man to me. Like the album O.F.R. by Nitro, that album is so over the top, and their costumes are fucking RIDICULOUS. But it's still a pretty awesome, fun album, but does it make me a poser that I laugh sometimes when I am listening to it, and wearing a shirt that says "HAWAII: Pacific Haiwaian Islands"?
Oh yeah Lee, you shouldn't make fun of Ashely Simpson's looks, she's just a kid! She's probably got all sorts of body issues already, what with her big ugly nose, and the fact she needs to lose like 20 pounds!(binge and purge, and cocaine, would probably be the best way to accomplish this) FOR SHAME, LEE, FOR SHAME!
whoop, a few grammar errors up there, sorry people, I know you expect more from people replying to blog posts!
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