Music and the industry

[therunner]

Last night I was watching the VH-1 "Top 100 Rock Music Stars" and it was then that I realized the influence that the music indusrty has played since it's inception. If you think about it, the clothes you wear, the cars you buy, the places you go or don't go, all influenced by the music you do or do not listen too.

POP music and commercial rock have of course been the leading genres of the fashion/car/soda/junk food industry. The sixties were huge with long hair of the Beatles, the sexy swing of Elvis, and the hippy clothes of Janis Joplin. The 80's were set buy musicians such as Madonna with big hair, the chained cross, lace gloves, and rebellious daughters.

Hip-hop has played a major role in advertising for LEXUS, BMW, and now HUMMERS. Sports clothes took off with MTV playing Chris-Cross wearing jerseys backwards and they even started their own clothing line. Gold teeth are "bling-bling'n" and now even blonde hair and wife beaters are the in thing for white sububan hip-hoppers.

Country music has long forever played a part in pick-up trucks and cowboy hats, wrangler jeans and flannel shirts. But now with sex stars such as Shania Twain, Faith Hill and the Dixie Chicks, the mid-drift shirts are full swing in country bars and clubs, with even those that shouldn't be wearing them, sporting them to full extent.

EDM has notebly been the fashion setter for baggy pants, visors, and glow sticks, but now with mitsubishi and twix flaunting Dirty Vegas and DJ Rap tunes, who knows where influence of EDM might lead.

Punk Rock has set the scene for spiked and dyed hair, motorcycle jackets and mulitiple piercings. From The Sex Pistols to Fugazi, eating habits and drug use was changed from carnivorous heroin users to vegetable eating straight edge punkers that defied all rules with the onslaught of the Clash's raging lyrics against government rule and the Lebanese hostage situation.

Feel Free to elaborate on the influences of music through the years.