We all know that the hair metal genre was pretty much dead by 1992. However, do you think that 1989 was the year when hair metal started to decline.  The sound, image and style was so homogenized and copied by 89.  There were also a lot of second rate hair metal bands by this point as well.  It did seem that hair metal was at the point of saturation by 1989 anyway.  What do you think?

Being 12 in 1989, I do notice the decline of hair metal.

Well, didn't it peak in 1988? So I guess it would make sense for it to start going down after the peak. So I guess I agree with you.

Who says hair metal died?

Hair Metal was popular in the 80's,guys wore the big poofy hairdos and huge amounts of girly makeup.http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-acZl1JQ4FY/S8hr1PqUIbI/AAAAAAAABSg/CYvQ9FQCyPk/s1600/Poison-Look_What_the_Cat_Dragged_In.jpg

I'd say more like 1991, there were still plenty of hair metal hits in 1989 and 1990 ("Every Rose Has its Thorn", "Heaven", "Cheery Pie", "Miles Away", etc) but hardly any beginning in 1991 and the genre was utterly dead by 1993.

Is Bang Tango considered "hair metal"?
???

I'd say more like 1991, there were still plenty of hair metal hits in 1989 and 1990 ("Every Rose Has its Thorn", "Heaven", "Cheery Pie", "Miles Away", etc) but hardly any beginning in 1991 and the genre was utterly dead by 1993.


and guys stopped dressing up as women.

and guys stopped dressing up as women.


I think you're forgetting a little thing called emo  :D Although that wasn't quite as radical as hair metal

I think you're forgetting a little thing called emo  :D Although that wasn't quite as radical as hair metal


Emo was more androgynous -- guys and girls girls and guys interchangeable!

http://i.acdn.us/image/A1070/107000/150_107000.jpg

Emo was more androgynous -- guys and girls girls and guys interchangeable!

http://i.acdn.us/image/A1070/107000/150_107000.jpg


So emo would be hair in the face type of hairstyle? ???

One of the styles.  I see Emo guys around campus with the hair brushed over the forehead.  Always reminds me of Dennis the Menace.
::)

Emo was more androgynous -- guys and girls girls and guys interchangeable!

http://i.acdn.us/image/A1070/107000/150_107000.jpg


Absolutely!  At least back in the 80s, even when hair metal was popular and a lot of male bandmembers have long hair, they acted liked MEN and they still look like MEN!

Absolutely!  At least back in the 80s, even when hair metal was popular and a lot of male bandmembers have long hair, they acted liked MEN and they still look like MEN!


But fast forward 30 years later.

I just watched the 2001 movie Rockstar with Mark Wahlberg, set in 1986 and it seemed in that that the hair metal was at its peak then and began to decline in 1987.

I just watched the 2001 movie Rockstar with Mark Wahlberg, set in 1986 and it seemed in that that the hair metal was at its peak then and began to decline in 1987.


I guess hair metal stopped becoming popular as 1990 came about.

  I was big into metal then. I always thought it peaked in 1988/89. I was 20 and working at a local mall at the time. We would head over to the music store almost ever day to check out what new metal had come out. Much Music's Power Hour was big then to, and if I had to work that night it was taped(still have about 60 hours of it on tape). I think it ended in 1991 just after GNR's albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II came out. That Christmas Nirvana started to become popular and took off in early 1992. And grunge took over. I haven't liked much since then lol.

I just watched the 2001 movie Rockstar with Mark Wahlberg, set in 1986 and it seemed in that that the hair metal was at its peak then and began to decline in 1987.


Having lived through it, I can assure you that hair metal was alive and well after '87. I don't remember a decline until '92, actually. I was a freshman in high school starting in September of '91, and hair metal was still huge at that point, at least among the early teen crowd. I can't speak about the older kids. Maybe they were looking for something else to jump into at that time, but I was too young to notice.

hair metal was popular when groups like KISS,Whitesnake,Quiet Riot and Night Ranger were around.

I always thought '89 was like at the height of hair metal's mainstream popularity?  :-\\