TY Stu - I'm really a fairly nice guy, but she has commited some awesome crimes against music in her short career - and her lyrics make her sound like a spoilt and spiteful self righteous little bitch.
With you totally on Guns 'n' Roses BTW.
I'd been listening to classic and obscure older heavy rock for several years before those guys turned up, and really couldn't see what the fuss was about. Slash is undoubtedly a great axeman, but A. Rose's rock and roll histrionics and sub - Plant vocal style did SFA but irritate me. I was definitely in the minority though - suddenly I was surrounded by T-shirts, leather jackets, bandanas and even the odd tattoo (fer chrissakes!) . . . and it was all over TV, radio, jukeboxes and walkmans every damn place for what seemed like ages.
Cynical and formulaic marketing of them wound me up too - do the controversial rock and roll bad boy thing and - gasp - be a bit rude, maybe have a single banned in a few countries, then follow up on the media furore by releasing basically middle of the road hooky ballads with tacked on heavy guitar riffs for broad maximum appeal = $$$ for old hat. They were just the last wounded roar of that whole spandex and blonde permed rawk thing from the 80s IMO - more pointless macho posturing, verging on the homo erotic and total narcissism.
God, how refreshing it was to hear the likes of Nirvana and that whole new wave grunge thing kick off.
So p*ss of Axl, and don't let the "doaah" hit your ass on the way out.
Ah . . . so therapeutic to unburden myself of that in a public arena: thanks everyone for reading this far into my therapy . . .
ahem . . . as I was saying, I am actually a reasonably nice guy, but rockstar ego bull and media hype just gets my bile flowing - you really have to be something special to get away it without it flavouring my opinion of your music.
Step forward Oasis . . . god no, don't get me started on those over-rated, thieving derivative *******s . . .
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