Hello fellow metalheads!
I wanted to sign up to a metal forum to ask this question. Out of the forums I saw, this one was the first one where I liked the look of it, and thus so I am here...
Maybe I will stick around if I like things here. I've been a metal fan for ~ 15 years. Favorite genre is black metal but before I was into that I liked some of death metal.
Also like thrash.
Anyways...
I've been thinking this for a while recently. That hollywood and the media hates metalheads; they always portray them in a negative light it seems to me. What do you think?
Whenever I see a "metalhead" or person with long hair or other cues associated with metal heads they usually always seem to get such a negative depiction.
Like in movies for example, they always seem to make them out to be: aggressive, unsuccessful, unattractive, drug addicts, low on the social scale, social outcasts, having mental problems, troubled and confused immature teenagers, creepy, dangerous people you need to watch out for, villains, and even make them victims of murder, etc., the list goes on.
Its like the media hates these types of people because they are basically non-conforming and individualistic. The media wants the masses to be sheep! So they send a rather strong message that: these kinds of people are the lowest of the social class. Don't be like them, be "cool" and conform... Total fucking bullshit!
In real life however, I have met some very nice, intelligent, good and cool individuals who are "metalheads" as I guess you could call them - basically people who just love metal music.
Thanks for reading and I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.
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I wanted to sign up to a metal forum to ask this question. Out of the forums I saw, this one was the first one where I liked the look of it, and thus so I am here...
Maybe I will stick around if I like things here. I've been a metal fan for ~ 15 years. Favorite genre is black metal but before I was into that I liked some of death metal.
Also like thrash.
Anyways...
I've been thinking this for a while recently. That hollywood and the media hates metalheads; they always portray them in a negative light it seems to me. What do you think?
Whenever I see a "metalhead" or person with long hair or other cues associated with metal heads they usually always seem to get such a negative depiction.
Like in movies for example, they always seem to make them out to be: aggressive, unsuccessful, unattractive, drug addicts, low on the social scale, social outcasts, having mental problems, troubled and confused immature teenagers, creepy, dangerous people you need to watch out for, villains, and even make them victims of murder, etc., the list goes on.
Its like the media hates these types of people because they are basically non-conforming and individualistic. The media wants the masses to be sheep! So they send a rather strong message that: these kinds of people are the lowest of the social class. Don't be like them, be "cool" and conform... Total fucking bullshit!
In real life however, I have met some very nice, intelligent, good and cool individuals who are "metalheads" as I guess you could call them - basically people who just love metal music.
Thanks for reading and I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.
\m/