I personally hate all the new wave music, like Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, and those stupid rich prissy girls who are only singing because they asked their daddies like Hillary Duff, and Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton, but, I don't think they are really posers. They just play awful music, in my opinion.
Yet, I like MCR, and the Used, but they are doing their own thing, ya know? someones always gotta hate someone else, so I don't care if you hate them, they aren't my favorite bands, but I don't think they are posers. I'm not saying they are punk, or anything hard, I'm just saying they are more like pop rock, no offense. 🙂
Personally I'm really into MCR and the Used, and I wouldn't call them poser because they even said themselves they aren't trying to be "punk" or "emo" or anything, they are just doing what they love
Also a comment on Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan types. I wouldn't say they are poser music because that would imply first that they are posing as something other then spoiled rich girls which they really aren't and second that what they make could be called music, which it couldn't
(oh snap)
I don't really think there are any poser bands now that I think about it. I mean, what do we know, people who are not hanging out with the band, not going through what they are going through, and assuming the worst on them, and saying they are posers. What are they posing at? We don't know them, personally. We make expectations, and they don't even know them, and why would you want to make everyone happy anyways?
Originally posted by amity75
Actually the band with the biggest posers in it was Led Zep! Musical geniuses all right but man did they love themselves! Check out any photo of them from the seventies and look at the clothes they are wearing! Total posers but, unlike other poser bands, they were as cool as fu*k with it.
Yeah, that's not posing in the sense that these people mean though.
-AC
Originally posted by amity75
Actually the band with the biggest posers in it was Led Zep! Musical geniuses all right but man did they love themselves! Check out any photo of them from the seventies and look at the clothes they are wearing! Total posers but, unlike other poser bands, they were as cool as fu*k with it.
Led Zeppelin were not posers! Do you EVEN KNOW what a poser is? Gosh, stupid people like you piss me off so badly. Led Zeppelin was and is not posing as anything! Sure, they could have been a bit egotistical, or narcisstic, but they are deffinetly not posers. Dumbass.
Posing is what bands do. Others do it for the wrong reasons, others cant help themselves. All this American Corporate Industry crap are posing because they are more of a product than live entertainment.
The Lostprophets are my favourite band, however they, in particular Ian Watkins, are posers. But they are also a great live band with killer songs.
And The Darkness are cock-rock. Posing is implied in their mandate. Bit underwhelming live though.
Originally posted by exanda kane
Posing is what bands do. Others do it for the wrong reasons, others cant help themselves. All this American Corporate Industry crap are posing because they are more of a product than live entertainment.The Lostprophets are my favourite band, however they, in particular Ian Watkins, are posers. But they are also a great live band with killer songs.
And The Darkness are cock-rock. Posing is implied in their mandate. Bit underwhelming live though.
Not sure if I can take you seriously when you go from claiming that Lostprophets are a great live band with killer songs to "The Darkness are cock-rock" which they're not. Nor are they underwhelming live. They can perform anywhere and more or less own the crowd. I've seen them perform in HMV and play as if they were performing at Woodstock. That's the mark of a great band. Performing with all you have regardless of where it is. They're not posing as anything. They're only "posing" to idiots who feel the need to attach a tag to everything.
Not all bands are posers. To say so is quite silly. I just saw Burst supporting Opeth, they came out wearing regular clothes. What are they posing as? Normal people? Come on.
As far as on stage antics, Tool, Iron Maiden, Rammstein...etc, all the people with spectacular (in terms of props or just magnitude) stage shows do so because of a purpose. Not to conform to an image.
What the hell kind of image is Maynard conforming to by painting himself half blue and half red? What image is Till Lindemann conforming to when he wears a nappy or a chef outfit, firing flames into the audience? people are way too fast to label.
-AC