You cannot unsee this so you decided to share it with the rest of us? I just bought a pretty nice copy of their first album in vinyl for a buck last Saturday and now I may never be able to play it after seeing what Van Halen has become. Yes, I do know that "Dance the Night Away" is on the second album. But if they do this to "Dance" what have they done to "Ain't talking bout love"?
They have not aged well... at all. Old-school Van Halen is one of my all-time favourite bands... and they were replaced with Chickenfoot once they started to mature. Chickenfoot did it very well, VH, not so much.
St. Martin not too long ago. This is the airport where the dipshits hold on to the fence during the jet wash at take off.
So is it the Dancing with the Stars get up on Roth or his dance moves that are so offensive here? I've never been a fan of Van Halen but for obviously over the hill rock stars they didn't sound bad. Are they too square looking in their old age or something?
Diamond Dave always has and always will be a showman. He was playing to his current reduced skill set and the audience. I mean, Van Halen was on the Ellen show. Are fans of 80s rock going to stop listening to and buying Van Halen? No. Did he just open the band to a new market with disposable income? Yes. They aren't the Van Halen of my high school days, obviously. But, Dave is bald and can't hit the high notes and do the high spandex leg kicks any more. So, he puts on a suit and vest, wears his remaining hair cut short, and tries to act like an old charmer. No big.
Young Van Halen would beat the hell out of those guys for that shit alone. At least they weren't lip-synching like in their early TV appearances:. That was truly cringe worthy in retrospect:
I guess I've gotten to the point where nothing in the news is so outrageous that I am stunned by a headline anymore. I just read one: Tiger killed after running loose in Georgia neighborhood and I wasn't sure if it meant Tiger Woods. And, also the article ended with "no one knows where the tiger came from." A full grown tiger, shot dead in an Atlanta suburb. In Georgia. And, nobody knows where it came from. Alrighty, then.
There is a downside, though... if they are looking to tour, they just tainted their image with their initial fan base. I have no desire to go see that band play now, if that's what I'm going to get, and I don't think I'd be alone in that. They have now relegated themselves to me listening to the albums I already own, and nothing more.
You're not wrong. I just don't think it's that big of an impact. They'll still get fans who haven't seen that clip, who would go anyway, or who "always wanted to see them" but haven't. They lose 2% of the market base and gain 2% others. And, keep themselves in the news cycle so movies and commercials want to use their music.
YouTube is the number one reason that I don't go to many live shows now. Unless your live show blows me away I can just listen to the music. I want pyro. I want visuals. I want a fucking robot. I want there to be a reason I'm paying $50-$200 and giving up an evening. Maybe I'm just fancy. I used to go to almost every band that came through and I constantly left with a feeling of emptiness. Now I go to see big arena shows or GWAR. Thank you YouTube.
Whew, not every day you get called a slut before lunch. I was just on my way to work, sharing the elevator with this obviously old money elderly woman. I'm wearing a slip as a skirt today and halfway through the ride up she dramatically looks me up and down, raises her eyebrows, shakes her head, and says "That's supposed to be worn under your clothes, you know." And then the elevator dings and she strides out. IT'S CALLED FASHION, GRANDMA. Shoot.
Are you just ascribing the slut shaming aspect to her because she might have a better fashion sense than you? HHHHMMMMM?
Wow. What an iconic pop culture guru. One day historians will reel with both horror and laughter at the fact that those stupid pants were.....somehow....a Thing.