Nick1976

See, metal is MUSIC, it is not a religion or ideology.. If the sound is metal, then that's what it is, metal.
It DOESN'T have to be about "death and pain", it can be about love, sex and MONEY.
And that "looking like girls" ****, that's what it all about dude! That's what rock has been telling the world from the rise of rock'n roll in the 50's too now, REVOLUTION! Now your REAL metal let no talent mindless gold tooth rappers take over the music industry and the white girls in america. Way to Go!! "Hair" metal was the best for two reasons. 1 it was incredibly fun, and people who would rather listening to screaming **** (which is not music) are obviously disturbed 2. all the music of that generation you could rock out to, you can't rock out to screaming. 3 (whoops there's more) those guys got more girls than anyone. I have seen Pic's of Metallica in the early 80's before they moved to S.F. when they lived in L.A. wearing Blue Spandex - No Lie! It was called metal at the time, not hair metal or anything like that. this means it is metal. It has the same power chords etc, riffs etc, it is metal! W.A.S.P. are the most raw sounding 'glam'(actually read metal as that is what those bands are) band ever. They have songs about taking drugs, love, sex, violence, **** everybody, everything really. Nirvana made everyone forget about talent and ended up creating a fake scene when they were starting off complaining about one. Their biggest hit is a pixies rip off. I say they suck, basically.

Creating catchy music requiers talent. Being an average, nu metal ish over-rated **** band doesn't. If there is barely a tune to a song then it is actually very ****, it's as simple as that. 80's metal bricked a foundation for the metal of today. Dude the 80's/early 90s WAS the era of metal! Metal has degraded to a bunch of fat coked up losers whining about how daddy hit him or how much he hates the world and has his little anger issues. Yes many 80's bands dressed like girls but hell that was SHOCKING at the time instead of "How can they draw that" it was "How can they wear that" the era got us out of the 70's disco faze which no one likes. Yeah your life sucks get ****ing used to it metal was all about **** the rules I'm gonna go high and do a hot chick FYI no one in the 80's would have done Courtney Love save for Kurt Cobain. If you look across the Hair-Metal line, you see the rise of Thrash and Death Metal in the early 80's, and the power grab of Black Metal going from the late 80's on. plus Progressive Metal came to be in the late 80's/early 90's too.

Point being, 80's was the rise of half the genres of Metal we know today, plus a few of those bands remain after the 90's. By saying hair metal isn't metal is false because it isn't like **** now days, your wrong because when compared to the stuff of its era it really was metal. Glam metal is the real ****..it is music from the streets and portrayals of real events...if drugs girls and cars are thrown in the mix so be it...its all about the experiences they faced in the end..
Compare it to ****ing power metal...all i gotta say is J.K rowling called and she wants her ****ing story back. not to mention the over used solos which leaving you looking at your watch after 20 minutes wondering how ****ing long its gonna take. You know what,bands like Poison, Bon Jovi, and Motley Crue,have made 10 times as much money as any Death metal band. People liked 80's metal because it was fun to play and fun to listen to. You cant have a good time listening to a bunch of pussies whine because they can't get over their problems so they just get pissed and write songs about death. It's true that glam metal is full of over-the-top makeup and a lot of songs are dealing either with sex, either with partying, either women, either love, or even all of that together.

But still, music-wise, Glam metal has always had in it ALL the things, that make a song METAL.
The riffing is metal. The chord voicings were metal. The soloing is metal. The drumming is metal.
Glam metal IS metal, because all it's instrumentation is METAL.

Shredding solos that use both modal and bluesy scales? Check. Driving,metallic riffs? Check. Double-bass drumming,cymbal chokes and metallic beats? Check.
Strong, booming bass, blasting out metal rhythms and occassional solos? CHECK.

Singers with vocal approaches(regardless of the vocal range) like: epic, soaring, operatic, raspy, rocking, controversial, shocking,etc? CHECK!!!!

Love it or hate it, but Glam metal IS metal. And A LOT of Glam metal bands had,and still have very good musicians. If one played in a Glam metal band andwanted to "make it", one had to be technically proficient with his/her instrument and work for it.

Well, i do admit that it wasn't ONLY about skill and dedication, it also had to do with attracting interest from women(and often having sex with them) and the media,but still, the dedication and skill were and still are the biggest parts of what was and still is required to be successful.