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Old 10-01-2014, 09:25 PM   #55 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by The Batlord View Post
By whom? Kids/twenty-somethings/probably-many-thirty-somethings today don't care about disco one way or another. They might know a few songs, and might even know who performed those songs, but it's too far back in time to be anything more than their parents'/grandparents' music. Hair metal is about a decade closer to them, easier to listen to ironically, and had that weird renaissance back in the early-mid '00s that put Motley Crue back in the charts for a year or so. People don't respect it, but they actually do talk about it.

I agree.

It also doesn't help how the industry reinforces Hair metal by awarding and praising that era and the bands that were in it.
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