ok, so I didn't make it all through that interview, cause I get too agitated. One thing that really bothers me though is this:
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And we thought we had to be something else, we had to chase that, hanging around with those kind of kids, L.A. and finding your sisters make-up and all that goofy stuff we used to do . This isn’t really where we’re from or what we do, but ok. We came home and wrote a record called SWW, and the album cover is a hefty garbage bag squirted with water and I took my fingers and wrote Slippery When Wet and that was one of the biggest selling albums of all time. Why? Because we came home. We did what we do naturally.
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I don't buy that for a second. It's a middle aged guy making excuses to the newly found 12 year old fans (as he said himself) as to why exactly he wore pink leather pants and eyeliners. It's BS. It's trashing his old fans. It's sucking up to the hip kids of today.
I lived the 80s - I wore the thight jeans and colorful scarves. My boyfriends had longer hair and wore more make up than I did. None of us pretended to be something else. It was fashionable as hip huggers are today. No deep psychological reasoning other than going with the trend and enjoying every moment of it.
To come out and say they only did it to pretend being somebody else gives merit to all the poser-haters of the 80s that would give me a hard time for listening to BJ and Motley and GnR. Idiot!
And wtf is that SWW comment? They were still wearing make up at that point - tight pants - long hair - the whole package - how is that coming home to earthly NJ? Don't even dare to suggest SWW was much different than New Jersey in the sense that now you came clean and SWW it who you really are but NJ isn't -------- ............