QUOTE (Vinicitur @ Jan 21 2008, 04:17 AM)
It's probably that they're the last well known Hair Metal band. Everyone vents their animosity on them. But it's the whole Hair Metal movement that they have problems with. This is because when Metal became huge in 1985 producers started creating/signing bands for the purpose of creating FM top 40 pop songs. Maybe it was fun at first but after a while it became pretty lame.
Those songs were basically marketed at listeners who weren't metalheads which alienated the true die-hards.
And that's basically why metal died in the early 90s. The real fans went to the underground music and the commercial fans, when the novelty wore off, started listening to other stuff like grunge.
This happens time after time.
Someone does something new and if it becomes popular loads of people try to copy it (at the same time trying to make it more marketable).
It happened with Punk, Glam, Grunge, Nu Metal etc...
Hopefully with the rise of the internet a lot of record companies are going to lose their power of what they can push into the mainstream and people will have access to everything and can go make up their own minds.
Going back to the topic: I think it's fine to dislike Poison if you think they are individually bad, but I think a lot of people think of them as a part of the glam genre. I don't particularly like them but they are a lot better than most stuff in the charts.
(Now, Poison by Alice Cooper is a different matter...)
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