HAIR METAL ... Is the term offensive, is it irrelevant one way or the other, or does it put a black eye on the 80s?

[MetalSludgeCEO]

Well?

$ludge

[Rocker4Real]

I don't care for it, but it's so widespread that I'd be a dork trying to correct everyone. I'd rather say 80s-style hard rock or 80s pop rock. That's what I'll do.

[Black Stuff]

who cares? What else will we be upset by today? hahhhahha. Bigger things to worry about.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Yes.

[PBFSUCKS]

How many wigs and extensions were used in the average 80’s band?

Case closed.

[daveg]

Hell no. Term wasn't even a thing at the time. I'd guess mid to late 90's when the name stuck.

If you are offended by it, then go out for a walk..Was an awesome time..

[LAglamrocker]

Hair Metal made the 80s awesome…name is actually perfect
I LOVE HAIR METAL..losers came up with name to bring us down ONLY made it stronger. Who is laughing past 2 decades of FUN in stadiums , arenas and 3 billion club shows
When you think of hair metal you think of all girls dressed at the time like future Only Fan girls- music was made for the girls and ME

Who didn’t want be those chicks on Night Songs cd long box?

Only thing I love more than Hair Metal name is when people tell me WWE is fake

[Spongie]

Kinda depends on who’s saying it… sorta like ‘N’ word.

Musicians and fans of that scene are free to use the term because in that context it’s not meant to be derogatory. It’s almost a point of pride.

But I do get irritated when outsiders… fans of talentless and inferior genres like mallcore, nu metal, bro country, and alt rock… say it because in that context it’s meant as an insult.

[Fat_Elvis]

I call it hair metal. I don't give a shit if it upsets Eddie Trunk or Bach or whoever. It's an easy label that people understand.

[daveg]

Kinda depends on who’s saying it… sorta like ‘N’ word.

Yup..it's exactly the same.

[Wild Obsession]

IMO, it makes it 100% clear, the musical genre your talking about. You use terms like "80's hard rock", and that could mean The Smithereens or Huey Lewis and the News to some people, you say "Hair Metal", and they know it's Motley Crue, RATT, Poison, etc. Either way the best music ever created!

[MetalSludgeCEO]

I call it hair metal. I don't give a shit if it upsets Eddie Trunk or Bach or whoever. It's an easy label that people understand.

This x100M

$tEvil

[Asshole_Rose]

I don't mind it at all. Sorta like Yacht Rock, Grunge, etc. It's just a way to define a genre of music. Nothing more.

[dmbrocker]

I call it hair metal. I don't give a shit if it upsets Eddie Trunk or Bach or whoever. It's an easy label that people understand.

Same. I have no problem calling it hair metal.

[NineteenEightyFour]

I like the term better than "glam metal", that's for sure.

[Rocker4Real]

IMO, it makes it 100% clear, the musical genre your talking about. You use terms like "80's hard rock", and that could mean The Smithereens or Huey Lewis and the News to some people, you say "Hair Metal", and they know it's Motley Crue, RATT, Poison, etc. Either way the best music ever created!

Huey ain't Hard Rock. Someone could look at a picture of Queensryche in the 80s and refer to them as Hair Metal. You're really gonna put them in the same genre as Poison?

[layne_says]

teen metal is a more accurate description and is more expansive and including in it's definition.

[roxxxtar]

At 50, I’m more worried about someone parking in my yard or what those darn kids are up to walking down the street

[greengoblinrulz]

Never once bothered me as personally it invoked a period of time, not a look or talent level
However, it now bothers me only cause of the redneck idiot fans who use that term

[MattleyCrue]

I love the term hair metal. I use it on a daily basis.

[Tyketto Meniketti]

It's definitely meant as a derogatory term. Used to minimize the genre. I always ask, was Heart a hair band? Because they had the uniform.

So do Mumford & Sons, and their ilk of hipster alt country band with their uniform of rockabilly shirts, ridiculous beards, horn rimmed glasses, man buns, etc. Same with the bro country acts who all look the same with their ridiculous beards. They're all "hair bands," part II.

[Wild Obsession]

IMO, it makes it 100% clear, the musical genre your talking about. You use terms like "80's hard rock", and that could mean The Smithereens or Huey Lewis and the News to some people, you say "Hair Metal", and they know it's Motley Crue, RATT, Poison, etc. Either way the best music ever created!

Huey ain't Hard Rock. Someone could look at a picture of Queensryche in the 80s and refer to them as Hair Metal. You're really gonna put them in the same genre as Poison?

Yup, Queensryche, Tesla, Kings X.......... "Hair Metal".