![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They were accused of defiling music with their ‘nancy’ ways and being too concerned with their looks to actually pay attention to making some quality tunes. With their success, there came a bucketful of flak by the core rock-and-roll supporters. Women everywhere heaved their bosoms at the sheer forbiddance of the situation. Glam Metal added a new dimension to David Bowie’s ‘Ziggy Stardust’. It gave birth to the confident male in tight leather pants, who had that dangerous and attractive air about him. Teenagers in the confines of their rooms got a whole new meaning of being a rebel. He grabbed the making love on the bed concept by it’s collar and threw in an elevator with a naked woman. Steven Tyler, with his red frilly jumpsuit was, as always, right ahead of his times. Along with being bold and well dressed, their songs told the people exactly what they wanted without mincing words.Īerosmith was considered as one of the jump-starters of the Glam Rock bandwagon. They took the shackles of subtlety binding a civilized society and threw it out of the window mockingly. They wore colored beads and spandex and introduced the women to some unbridled lust, thus becoming the guilty pleasure which no amount of normal men in bands could ever hope of competing with.īreaking free from the restrictive norms, this motley bunch of men weren’t afraid of shake things up a little. Something pretty and something that no one else has. These image-conscious men actually got inside the psyche of women and gave us what our subconscious really wanted. It’s our basic primal nature to get attracted by something which is different and shocking. On the occasion of today being the birthday of two such glaring examples – Bret Michaels from Poison and Dee Snider from Twisted sister, let’s analyze just how in the name of saggy pants did these bands manage to get so many women? This makes one wonder, just how can a bunch of grown-ass, straight men wear female clothing, put on make-up, perm their hair and still manage to pull off passionate songs about love and heartbreak?!. They also decided that they wanted to put on some mascara and dab on some rouge before stepping on the stage. YEAH.īut then the lovely 80s hit, and in the midst of all that smoke and neon lights, a bunch of surprisingly secure men decided to bring pelvic thrusts into fashion, all the while balancing a guitar on their hipbones. Women should be fashionably dainty, while men break rocks and slap dirt on their wounds to make them better. A society which has a certain image of how perfect men (and women) should look like – Women with petite waists and coiffeured hair and men with chiseled faces and chests as hard as washboards. We’ve always been a society of rules and uptight regulations. Give us something shiny, pretty and colorful and we’re a bunch of happy buzzers… Cause we’re not very different from flies you know. ![]()
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