The next generation of rock fans...

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Saw this posted on a Vinnie Vincent board, thought I'd share it with you coz its a cool story!

My daughter has been a Kiss fan since she was age 4, she is 8 & still a fan. I bought her a Kiss book & she starting asking who is Vinnie Vincent & does he have any music out. Not too long ago I played the "Love Kills" video that I taped from vh1 classic. Ah man, she thought He was the greatest & she kept asking me to keep playing the video (gee about 4 times)!! Well the day before yesterday on VH1 Classic "Metal Mania", had played "Boyz Are Gonna Rock" video in the morning when she had to leave for school. Man she flipped, she didn't want to leave untill the video was over & she asked me to tape it later that day. And I did, she saw that video 4 times & loves that song. (heeheehee) now she been asking me to play the cd's for her. She a little rocker, just thought I share that w/ everyone!!

:headbang: What a rockin' little girl! I wish more kids were like that, and that could be the next generation of rock fans!

But then I got to thinking and realised that her generation hasn't grown up with grunge (which really is the one style of music that made glam/hardrock look "funny" or stupid because it was the complete opposite and supposedly had credibility for not being over the top & entertaining). That has to be a good thing, because the next generations might not laugh at entertaining, catchy, melodic sounding arena style hard rock music like my generation did, so it might be alot easier to be accepted in the future!
 
Glam looks funny or stupid all the time, it doesnt matter what you have to compare it to :)
 
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No it doesn't :lol: And I'm not necessarily just talking about glam, I'm talking just about big hard rock stuff in general, arena rock as opposed to alternative/grunge crap.

It didn't look funny in 1988 because it was popular. The only reason it looks funny since the mid-90s is because people are used to bands who look normal, so when a band comes out looking outrageous it looks funny. Just like in 10 years time, bands such as Marilyn Manson, Murderdolls, Rob Zombie etc who have an outrageous look (but one that is popular and "cool" these days) will probably be funny.
 
Manson/Zombie/Murderdolls dont look like a bunch of girls, Alice Cooper isnt laughed at now because he was darker and more evil, like Manson, Zombie and Murderdolls :)
 
How is dark/evil any less funny than drag/trash kinda look? Both are shock rock, I don't see the difference. Maybe to metal fans the drag/trash look is funnier because dark/evil is "cool" but I'm just talking about people in general. And people in general probably find dark/evil shock rock just as stupid & funny.
 
I do, there's nothing wrong with that :D

And I still don't see how glam is funny. Theoretically, dressing up as some trashy heroin shooting drag queen hooker from Hollywood is no different from dressing up as a ghoul or corpse or something! It's all theatrical, its all done to shock and look dangerous and outrageous.
 
And the real issue I think here is lack of comfortabilty with your own sexuality if you find the feminine look of glam as funny etc.Those who don't see it as not funyy are not in their own little world it is those who do who are!
 
The Trooper said:
I do, there's nothing wrong with that :D

And I still don't see how glam is funny. Theoretically, dressing up as some trashy heroin shooting drag queen hooker from Hollywood is no different from dressing up as a ghoul or corpse or something! It's all theatrical, its all done to shock and look dangerous and outrageous.
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Because they still look like a bunch of girls :) Theatre or not :)

I have never met anyone who loves one genre of music as much as you Troops, I know theres a girl out there (hopefully not a man dressed as one) that you will meet one day and she will be like "Hey I like Vinnie Vincent" and you will be all like "Hey *I* like Vinnie Vincent too!" and you show her your tshirt and live happily ever after in glamtopia making sleazy songs and hanging outside the bars on the glamtopia strip every night :)
 
dont fuck with glam! glam is fuckin awesome! ......and the Murderdolls rock :headbang:
 
spawn said:
I have never met anyone who loves one genre of music as much as you Troops, I know theres a girl out there (hopefully not a man dressed as one) that you will meet one day and she will be like "Hey I like Vinnie Vincent" and you will be all like "Hey *I* like Vinnie Vincent too!" and you show her your tshirt and live happily ever after in glamtopia making sleazy songs and hanging outside the bars on the glamtopia strip every night :)
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:lol: :lol: There was a chick at Back In The Day who was a Vinnie Vincent freak! We were singing along to Boyz Are Gonna Rock! She loves him! She was married so she doesn't count though lol, but I know that there are Vinnie Vincent chicks out there which is cool! Just gotta find one my age who ain't married! Haha!
 
Oh and by the way... whether they look like girls isn't the point! The point is, who cares if they look like girls. So glam shock rockers look like girls, so dark, evil shock rockers look like horror movie villains.. what's the difference? That's my point! None is funnier than the other! Both are entertaining and fun.

And I think Xena might be right :) I mean who was more gay, tough metal men Rob Halford and Udo, or lipstick & hairspray glam kings like Bret Michaels and Taime Downe? :lol:
 
Off the top of my head, I think Rob Halford is more gay than Bret Michaels, but what does being gay have to do with looking like girls?
 
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