[EDantes]

(04-30-2016 04:37 AM)262 Wrote:  

I love hair metal.

It was basically the last time white guys in the mainstream could be unapologetically masculine.

Though maybe Trump, who's an 80s icon himself, may be bringing that back. Would make sense, given all the 80s movie remakes we've seen for the last few years.

Hair metal gets a bad rap but it was a helluva lot better than the grunge/alternative/pop punk/emo/indie hipster bullshit which has been come to be known as "rock".

Today hip hop is basically the only mainstream genre left where men can display machismo without it becoming a huge controversy; rappers have essentially become the new "rock stars"