Who killed hair metal?

[frash.exe]

?????????

[Johnny Rockets]

Michael Bolton...no question....he had a heavy metal band that actually toured with Ozzy years ago. Heavy Metal (and Hair Metal) never stood a chance from that day forward.

He is also suspected in the death of Jimmy Hoffa.

[Jase]

hair metal killed itself.

[Jangler]

poison

[Carolina Mike]

Slow Lounge Day!!

[Henne Given Sunday]

the rock

[Johnny Rockets]

Slow Lounge Day!!

Never heard of them....

[2plankingpanther]

Kurt Cobain killed hair metal(cheese metal),then when he killed himself,popular music got happy and sappy and sorry as poo!

[88 Bronco]

Guns N Roses

[The Link]

Whoever it was deserves a medal.

[davos]

It was the entire shift in rock attitude from fun to tough imo. So, a mix of grunge & metal.

[Starscream]

hair metal killed itself.

:iamwithstupid:

The music industry became oversaturated with bad hair metal bands. RATT, White Lion, Mr. Big, Damn Yankees, W.A.S.P., Extreme, etc...

[SCP]

poison

This. And the song lyric that pulled the trigger?

"C.C., pick up that guitar and-a, talk to me!"

[Wanderlai]

I'd say that the shift from the wide open 80's and the lets have fun attitude to the 90's and the poor sad me grunge movement killed Hair Metal. I think most agree that it was Nirvana that started the Seattle sound and thus the death of Hair Metal. Mtv also stopped promoting Hair Metal bands and moved to Gangsta rap. The last straw for Metal in general was when Metallica cut their hair off.

What was the last great Hair Metal album? Motley Crue's Dr. Feelgood???