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Music writes about human rebellion and freedom. Hair, on the other hand, is the banner for them to practice the spirit of music.
Journalist/Kason
Music fans at Kelvin Grove Park in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1984, were the first to catch the eye with a variety of avant-garde hairstyles
From glam rock costumes to Asian visuals
Glam Rock, not exactly a musical genre, is more of a show trend. Dramatic stages, gender-blurred costumes, and the decadence emanating from the music are its hallmarks. Its glory was short,but it was a major stroke of musical history, largely due to the patronage of the school, David Bowie. No music school has ever packaged the concept of "shape" as a work that has always been imitated, but has never been surpassed.
It is very rude to say that In addition to the characteristics of the music itself, David's fame is more important than the mutation of his shape. The late 1960s were the golden age of psychedelic rock, when David had little memory point, and his first self-titled album released in 1967 was on the streets. David was struggling to find his own style at this time, and you could hear the influence of the Beatles and Pink Floyd on this album, which was a hodgepodge of platters. At this time, his eyes were melancholy and he had thick hair curtains, which was not much different from other hippie youths who wanted to stir up the history of music. The 1998 film Velvet Gold Mine alludes to David's experience before he became a superstar, with the protagonist with long hair and a long bohemian dress singing a ballad on stage, but was applauded by the audience.
In 1969, David had a brief chance to go out of the circle and step on the hot spot of the first human landing on the moon, he released the album "Space Oddity", the main track of which entered the top five of the British Gold Melody Chart, he released a second self-titled album while it was hot, but once again hit the street. David was still a small curly hair, feeling like a nightmare in his hippie style preventing him from becoming a generation of superstars. That same year, David met his first wife, Angela Barnett, a like-minded young woman who was a key figure in helping David start the era of "rock and roll" — even if their marriage didn't survive the seven-year itch, but that's a story.
David Bowie created a virtual idol on stage, Ziggy Stardust, a asexual man from outer space
At his lowest point, David studied under the avant-garde dancer Lindsay Kemp, who seemed to sniff out a glimmer of opportunity, and maybe the rock stage could be dramatic? During this period, Angela contracted all the styling, lighting, and publicity work related to David's image, first hiring Suzie Fussey to cut David's hair short and then dying it red, making the "indistinguishable" stage effect a big selling point, inviting Freddie Buretti to tailor his clothes, from shoulder printed jumpsuits to platform boots, from shoulder pad suits to striped space suits. In 1972, David finally used his fifth album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, to announce the birth of a "virtual rock star," Ziggy Stardust.
Creating virtual idols and giving character traits and unique styling was not his first. As early as 1921, the artist Marcel Duchamp played this trick. Duchamp puts himself on lipstick, puts on a mink coat, and transforms into a fictional female character, Rrose Sélavy. It's not known if David's inspiration was related to Duchamp, but one thing worth playing is that David was a genius who could turn imitation into originality, and this set of visual arts that combined "drama" and "rock and roll" soon became the peak moment of his life.
David's redhead period was closely related to Japan, and it is necessary to mention the one-piece clothing and high heels designed for him by Japanese designer Kansai Yamamoto, a gender revolution that swept away the decadence of hippies and became the mainstream in the late 70s and 80s. Meanwhile, David's "rock visual makeover" profoundly influenced Japan, and the band BOOWY, formed in 1980, was clearly a tribute to David, which came to be known as Japan's greatest rock band. After two years, the band X-Japan, known as the originator of the "Japanese Visual Department", was formed.
What does "Japanese Vision" mean for Asia? Looking back at history, Asians have always recognized rebellion later than the European and American worlds. The existence of the visual department inheriting the gorgeous rock costume in Asia is undoubtedly similar to the liberation wave set off in Europe and the United States in that year. The Japanese music scene in the 1980s is said to have adhered to many "unspoken rules", strictly following a relatively fixed creative structure, and even the bizarre requirement that the chorus would not exceed 15 seconds. The emergence of the visual system coincided with the bursting of Japan's bubble economy, and Asia urgently needed a revolution to save young people from pessimism and nihilism. From the 1980s to the late 1990s, a group of visual bands emerged, leading the first generation of rebellious youth in Japan with their musical diversity and unusual attire. They wear colorful, strangely shaped hairstyles and painted with gendered makeup, which is only the embodiment of some appearances, and more importantly, promotes the convergence of Asian and European and American spiritual systems. Of course, the visual system is not a good thing for teenage parents, who are extremely disgusted by this defection and denial of order. History is so interesting, borrowing the east wind of music, sowing seeds, the influence of the visual system has penetrated into the current street culture and lifestyle of Japan.
The two gates of musical modeling: punk and metal
In 1975, on King's Road in London's West End, former singer Malcolm McLaren and his girlfriend Vivienne Westwood opened a clothing store called "Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die." The shop sells quirky clothes designed by Vivian and Malcolm's collection of old records. Business is not bad, and young people who like music like to come to this shop and sit down, chat with Malcolm, and drink a can of beer. Malcolm liked to share his anarchist political views with young people and encouraged idle people to play musical instruments. It didn't take long for a straw team to get in place, and a few punk teenagers who often mixed up in the store formed a sex pistol band, with Malcolm as the band's manager, and Vivian as a designer to provide them with "performance suits".
The performance of the Sex Pistol Band is very arousing the emotions of the audience, singing is not necessarily in tune, playing is also very likely to be out of tune, and even if you are unhappy, you can throw down the instrument and play against the audience under the stage. They gradually became famous and even became the spiritual leaders of hopeless youth, in short, a punk band that was wronged. In 1977, the band drove out the bassist who was "increasingly middle-class mommy babies," and the new bassist was the famous and violent Sid Vicious. The members were happy with the "madman", and even though he could barely play bass, they felt that his values and the band were entirely on one beat.
The Sex Pistols band led the punk movement, and they became the spiritual leaders of hopeless young people
Now let's see how such an unreliable band set off a vigorous punk movement. Angry young people worshiped them as gods. The British economy in the punk era was extremely poor, the high unemployment rate led to many young people doing nothing, they were dangling around with their handouts, hopeless for tomorrow, and the abuse of alcohol and drugs made the spiritual world of young people more and more eager for the release of madness. So the "notorious" and "broken jars" of sex pistols are their spiritual portrayals. Or rather, the existence of sex pistols practices what they call the "punk spirit."
During this period, the outfits and styling of punk youth on the street became more and more eye-catching, and most of them chose to wear leather coats with rivets, with Scottish plaid pants, preferably with holes and loops on their noses and lips. The choice of clothing is much the same, so hair becomes the weapon that best expresses their "emotions" and "attitudes". Among them, there are two hairstyles with the most punk attributes. Mohawk is not the first of punk, but a traditional hairstyle of Native American Indians, and punk simply borrows this pompous hairstyle to express its difference. This hairstyle is mainly to shave off the sides of the hair, leaving the middle area, long or short, dye it with your favorite color, and then use a lot of hair gel to fix the molding. Looking at it like an "angry rooster", it is full of aggression. There is also a more exaggerated punk hairstyle , Liberty Spikes , in which the entire head is divided into countless areas and fixed with hairspray into small awls. The longer the hair, the larger the small awl. For punk parties, this hairstyle is a sign of ritual and is only used when attending important events, after all, the "nails" on the head are ruined once they sleep overnight. This hairstyle seems disgusting to others, but this is exactly what the punk spirit preaches – against authority, against tradition, against hypocrisy, against meaning, anyway! Hair is the flag of the punk party's declaration of war on the world.
The Sex Pistols Band's Sid did not disappoint the punk party, and he used his short life to defend his "punk spirit", even if today he seems more like a victim of drugs. The punk movement also ended with Sid's death, and Sid, who died at the age of 22, and their two-year-old sex pistol band became a non-negligible stroke in punk history. Punk hairstyles and punk spirits did not stop after this movement, it continued to ferment around the world, and later after the emergence of different variants and branches of punk, the hairstyle also increased to more than ten, but the Mohican head and the nail head are still the "fist products" of the entire punk community.
The legendary Band Zeppelin, one of the pioneers of the Metal Party's head-shaking
After punk, I would like to add to the long hair of the "old enemy" of the punk party, the metal party. The metal party and the punk party have almost opposite hairstyles (the two are also fused in the later period), and they do not give themselves trouble in the formal sense of hairstyle, mainly relying on natural generation, one is flowing straight hair, the other is curly long hair. They are not obsessed with dyeing their hair in all kinds of fancy colors, but mainly black and gold. Heavy metal bands take a dark, mysterious, anti-religious route, and they firmly believe that "long hair is a right", and of course, there is a common hairstyle between the two - bald heads. But in general, only drummers in the Metal Party choose bald heads, and guitarists and lead singers basically show long hair. I've seen someone analyze specifically, why is the Metal Party obsessed with long hair and shaking its head? Here is an interesting explanation for everyone to open up the idea, because metal music is "split rhythm" (similar to the speed of the pendulum to do circular movement), people will unconsciously listen to this rhythm by shaking their heads and the sense of "rotation" embodied in the music to keep up, if you just swing by the neck will soon not keep up with the rhythm, but if there is long hair is not the same, through inertia, long flowing hair can easily be thrown all day.
And a particularly interesting thing, which metal band did the metal party's headshake originate from? At present, this seems to be a mystery. Some argue that led Zepplin first led zepplin heads-ups when it toured the United States in 1969; another theory is that Black Sabbath started in 1970 with lead singer Ozzy Osbourne when he performed in Paris, France; the last theory is that Deep Purple's lead singer Ian Gillan should have been a pioneer... In the end, it seems that the result is not important, anyway, it was born in the legendary three metal originators band, and this dispute is nothing more than a "fight" between fans.
The Irish musician Sunid O'Connor, who resembles Audrey Hepburn, has always walked the world with a bald head
The rebellion of the female musician "Hair and Styling"
Who is the most rebellious hairstyle among female musicians? The first thing that comes to mind is Sinéad O'Connor, a girl from Ireland who looks exactly like Audrey Hepburn, and when the company decided to package her as a jade singer, she ran and shaved her hair, and the company was furious, while she thought that the purpose of shaving her head was to rebel against the traditional world's impression of women. Although her voice sounds sweet and soft, it doesn't mean that she should be dressed up as a "sweet girl". After that, she had a short hair growth, and because she was often mistaken for Enya, another natural woman in Ireland, she decided to go to the world with a "bald head".
Sinid's deviance is as impressive as that bald head. She rejects people to think of her as a sex icon, refuses to shoot celebrities in the complicated music circle, and feels that the music of U2 is pompous and exaggerated. Things like refusing to accept a Grammy nomination are hardly worth mentioning in her rebellious story... These accidents that offend people make the company love and hate her. Her voice and creative talent are impeccable, but she is always in trouble because her opinions are too extreme.
The Japanese female musician Shiina Hayashibana, who is exactly 12 years younger than Sinid, is also controversial. Since her debut in 1998, people who love her have called themselves "believers in Shiina aesthetics", and those who hate her will say that "straight men can't like girls who sing Shiina Lin In KTV". Fortunately, Shiina Lin Zhen did not seem to care in the face of these strange comments, at the concert site, she once put on a stinky face the whole time, and some people described this aura as "love to listen and not listen to rolling".
To powder the name of the forest has a certain threshold height. First of all, there must be some basic understanding of various types of music, such as Japanese traditional music, pop, electronic, classical, punk, jazz, etc. Music is like a toy in her eyes, without definition and never repeated. Secondly, her lyrics are not easy to understand, often using a lot of Old Chinese and intentions, if the translator's skills are not good, it is difficult for you to understand what she is expressing. Finally, her avant-garde attitude of expressing "sex and lust" through music will also brush off some listeners.
Shiina Hayashi is the queen of Change in Asia, living the life that modern women most expect
Shiina's versatile looks are as impressive as her erratic musical style. Play rock and roll in a kimono and combing a Japanese classical hairstyle; become a queen with a seemingly seductive "Marilyn Monroe" hairstyle; sing with a loudspeaker in a playful and sexy nurse costume... A reporter once asked her in an interview, what is your style of music and styling? Shiina Hayashina was already annoyed by such questions from reporters, and she casually said a word "Shinjuku", and the media made a big fuss about it, but the comment was quite interesting: "The people of Shinjuku are desperately struggling to survive with the stench of society and self-loathing at the same time, trying to find the invisible truth." ”
Every one of her songs, and every look she looks at, is breaking the definition, and that's exactly what women need most —to let go of limitations, to let go of constraints, and to move to a newer world. I know an avid Shiina Lin Zhen fan, she said, Shiina Lin Yu has become what all modern women yearn for.
Charter Baker
Perfect jazz oil head
Chet Baker is the typical representative of "you can eat by your face, but you have to rely on your talent". It is said that once at the scene of his trumpet performance, it was crowded with young girls just to see his true face. Surrounded by fanatical female fans every day, Charter had to be obsessed with his own style, and he always combed the most popular oil head of the 1950s, which was a moment of glory. He is the trumpet prince of the white sir Cold in the minds of fans, and listening to him is a bit like reading Haruki Murakami's book, lazy, loose, and permeated with a sense of loneliness in the depths of the soul. Haruki Murakami praises Chartreuse without hesitation: "His music makes people feel a pain in the chest, an impression that haunts the heart, and only his tone and song-like phrases can convey it." "And such a near-perfect jazz playing genius, but eventually fell because of drugs, and it is really sad to see his untrimmed appearance in the later stages."
Elvis Presley
John Lennon said: "Before Elvis Presley, the world had nothing. "Elvis Presley's legend in the history of music speaks for itself. The prototype of early rock that emerged in the 1950s, mountain rock, was represented by Elvis Presley. As he became a household name, his twisting crotch dance and "Pompadour hairstyle" have become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. How deeply rooted is it? It is said that when Elvis Presley enlisted in the army in 1958, fans wrote letters to the president, asking Elvis to keep his hairstyle. Of course, the end result is that Elvis presley is not immune to being shaved into "green skins." The "Pompadour" can be traced back to the Rococo period, when Madame Pompadour, the mistress of King Louis XV of France, designed a hairstyle that towered high in the middle and smoothly followed the scalp on both sides. This hairstyle was magically interpreted by Elvis Presley and set off a craze for imitation in the 50s. Unfortunately, the arrival of the hippie era and the decline of mountain rock made this hairstyle at a low point. Today, Pompadour hairstyle has become the first choice for mature Yuppie men, and it is said to be a very "flirtatious" uncle hairstyle.
Bob Marley
Dirty braids are code names
Dreadlocks is a hairstyle found in the Rastafari sect culture of Jamaica. This hairstyle can be generated naturally, as long as you don't wash or take care of it all year round – of course, it's a joke! Now in the big city to make a dirty braid, but it costs a lot of money, because the next dirty braid is already a trend culture of young people, representing freedom, unrestrained, enthusiastic, and yearning for a pristine life. Dirty braid pop is inseparable from Reggae music. Bob Marley, the originator of reggae music, combined traditional African music, American rhythm and blues, and Jamaican folk music, and brought it to the United States in the 1970s, and then became popular around the world. Reggae has influenced a large number of white musicians, and you can even find it in rock and rap music. Now, the dirty braid is no longer exclusive to reggae lovers, it is the favorite of music-loving, peaceful and loving young people around the world, like a code.
Patti Smith
Female punk poet
Patti Smith was silver-haired when she attended and sang for her friend Bob Dylan at the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. No different from the way she dressed in her youth, her hair was casually draped over her shoulders, slightly disheveled and dry, and she couldn't help but think of what she had written, "Where does all this lead?" Who will we become? The young answer has also been revealed, and everything leads to each other. We become ourselves". This sentence seems to be written to this moment many years later. Patti's least known image is the cover of her first album Horses, released in 1975, in which she breaks down gender in a minimalist style, not sexy, shy, or contrived, she's just a child chanting poetry and singing punk. The world is so interesting, rock can save the soul, poetry can give you purity, so who cares what color your hair is, what it should look like! I finally understood who the real punk was.
"Black Hot"
Hip-hop originated in the black community in the 1970s, and half a century later, according to Nielsen Music, hip-hop music has become the "most mainstream" musical style in the United States. Since hip-hop artists are almost all black, with the mainstreaming of hip-hop, their hairstyles have also become a trend chased by hip-hop culture lovers. Among the races around the world, black hairstyles have unique characteristics, rough hair, spiraling curls, thick and fluffy, this hairstyle is natural for black people, known as "black perm", but if white and yellow people want to do this hairstyle, it takes a lot of work. Among them, Eazy-E, who is considered one of the most important figures in the history of gangster rap, is the typical defender of "black hot". There is a saying that in the United States in the 90s, if you meet someone on the street with a "black hot" and a Campton baseball cap, stay away! Because you could die at any time.
Literature and art "dirty mess"
Nirvana was the first band for many Chinese kids to touch rock and roll, and I was no exception. I've always wondered why. The reasons for this are complex, and veteran rock fans tell me that Ne has its own special background for sweeping the world, when people have become tired of the punk and metal war, suddenly a handsome boy next door, or sad or angry chanting some seemingly simple lyrics, especially lead singer Kurt Coburn's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" at the 1993 unplugged concert, quickly captured the hearts of all boys and girls. Even though Cobain's mid-split hair always looked so dirty, it didn't stop young people from pursuing him. Cobain's suicide in 1994 promoted the band to a legendary band like no other. To this day, Cobain's "hairstyle" is still the understanding of "decadence" by literary youth, and his canvas shoes and old man's cardigan are synonymous with "literature and art". Compared with those short-lived and ostentatious musical styles, Cobain's low-key and decadent seems to have a long history. At least today you go out on the street like this, it's still fashionable.
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