VIDEO VANITIES OF 1985 THEY PAID WITH BULLETS!
You’d think, from reading the popular press (including CREEM, of course), that all the most blatant leather & stud lock-up-yerdaughters metal videos are playing on your kid’s boob toob every hour on the hour this week. However, before you call an emergency meeting of your PTA to combat the decline in reading test scores caused by Gene Simmons’s charismatic tongue action, you’d be wise to tune into your MTV any given afterschool hour.
VIDEO VANITIES OF 1985 THEY PAID WITH BULLETS!
Richard Riegel
You’d think, from reading the popular press (including CREEM, of course), that all the most blatant leather & stud lock-up-yerdaughters metal videos are playing on your kid’s boob toob every hour on the hour this week. However, before you call an emergency meeting of your PTA to combat the decline in reading test scores caused by Gene Simmons’s charismatic tongue action, you’d be wise to tune into your MTV any given afterschool hour.
Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, Ratt—none of the costumed metal monsters are appearing on MTV with any regularity anymore, even though they were hotshot programming just a few months ago. What MTV is showing much more of instead is metalflavored bands, like The Firm, Survivor, Sammy Hagar, etc.—groups who make with the loud axe action OK, but who don’t have the imagination (or whatever it takes) to dress up in the leather uniforms all the “classic” metal boys favor.