Originally Posted by Cagney:
Originally Posted by Carnelian:
Well, the thing is, most of those other bands didn't want to trade in bombast and overwrought melodramatic emotions. You're confusing real emotions with MTV inspired crude melodrama.
Depends what you mean by emotion. If you mean melodramatic overwrought guff then soft rawk really milked that to the max, if you mean real, subtle emotion, then take your pick from just about all the acts that weren't in that genre.
I don't even like MJ, but even his subtler moments were more emotionally moving than anything that came out of the MTV/soft rock/Hair Metal fad.
What you see as melodramatic overwrought guff is what most on this thread have posted as emotional songs. Subtle emotion hasn't got anything to do with it. As the thread title says.....Fist clenching songs. Nothing subtle about it
The MTV/soft rock/hair metal fad? Lets compare that to the poncey guys who thought they could get by on their looks
Wasn't that era essentially getting by on your looks? The Hair Metal musicians took the androgyny of the New Romantic and Glam Rock eras and mixed it up with heavy metal and punk guitar riffs but not punk attitudes - they were too corporate for that!
Kiss and Alice Cooper were a throwback to glamrock, Bon Jovi, Motley Cru, Europe, Axl Rose, Van Halen, Dave Lee Roth were all big hair poncey pretty boys just right for MTV videos. Their music was rubbish, when Nirvana and Grunge kicked off, they were exposed for the talentless corporate pretty boy MTV rawk record company puppets they were.