Analysis Of The Hair Metal Band By Mötley Crüe

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It was New Year’s Eve. Often during so, the clubs and bars would be brimming with youth and underage teenagers waiting to count down to New Year’s Day. However, I spent my New Year’s Eve in the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The sports arena was mostly crowded with middle aged adults and everyone was there not to watch a game, but to bid farewell to a legendary hair metal band, Mötley Crüe. The band’s career spanned three decades and they ended it all at the birthplace of hair metal - Los Angeles, California. I really enjoyed the show because even though the band has aged staggeringly, they managed to maintain the elements of a hair metal concert – face-melting guitar solos, pyrotechnics, female dancers in skimpy clothing, and to …show more content…

People bought cars, alcohol, drugs and had huge parties especially on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California. Hair metal received very little recognition as the scene was only on the Sunset Strip. Bands gave incredible performances in iconic nightclubs such as the Whisky a Go Go and The Troubadour. They had a slow growth in their fanbase as the clubs were often filled with their friends and girls. However, they were able to make a decent living by playing five to six nights a week. The hair metal scene started to change when Quiet Riot’s album Metal Health reached number one on the Billboard 200. Record labels started taking notice of hair metal artists and soon started signing them. Everyone else believed that the success of Metal Health was a signal that hair metal was able to commerical and more and more hair metal bands from other parts of the United States started moving to Los Angeles. Girls were the primary target audience in the hair metal scene and hair metal artists are able to attract a lot of girls with power ballads. With power ballad hits such as “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” by Poison and “Home Sweet Home” by Mötley Crüe, hair metal bands had a huge growth of girl fans. Having a huge girl fanbase was important for the hair metal bands because even though the males may not like hair metal, they were at hair metal concerts to meet the

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