HAIRBANGERS BALL-CLASS

Like the others in my blog group have already stated, it is hard to know the class of someone simply based on their website and club appearances.  There is a lot more that goes into it than just that.  I think that too, you can be fooled, most of these things are an act, that people like Hairbangers are performing.  You don't know what is inside someone outside of all that make-up,  big hair, and the costumes.  Take for instance people like Dolly Parton and Eminem.  I know they are on opposite sides of the spectrum but their stories in a way are similar.  They both came from lower class families and made it big.  Dolly Parton has been known for saying that the way that she looks is what was her idea of glam as a kid, giving herself the title of "Backwoods Barbie."  She is quoted as saying, it takes a lot of money to look this cheap.  Eminem on the other hand also came from a poorer class and now has millions.  Do you think that now because he would be considered in the upper class due to wealth that he would give up the image that he has put out there as being someone from the lower class?  The same with Dolly Parton, it is an image that they have created and in a way that has attributed to the success of their acts, and made them millions.  I think that the members of Hairbangers are doing what they love and it doesn't matter what class they are from originally.  Most people trying to make it in the music industry will try just about anything to get what they want, even if it means coming up with a fake name, putting on some parachute pants and a wig just to do what you love.  I also think that they do it simply because it is fun.  

The way in which they dress however would give the impression that they are from the lower class.  Like I said in a previous post, they give off the impression today that they stepped out of a white-trash filled closet.  I was recently hearing about a new Broadway show that just opened call Rock of Ages.  They made a musical out of the music that bands like Hairbangers Ball is performing.  They also dress the same way, and the story is the same.  It is about a girl who moves to L.A. from the Midwest and is trying to make it as a singer.  In order to achieve that she performs at these less than normal clubs where people are dressed like the members of Hairbangers.  She is then given the "slutty/trashy" transformation and she is good to go.  I think that it geared toward a lower class of people.  You aren't going to see people that are considered high culture in the middle of a crowd at a Hairbangers concert, you just aren't.  People who go to the opera and eat out at five star restaurants aren't going to be groupies of a band like this.  I think that is why they are really popular in college towns and festivals, they are geared towards a class of people who are looking to get drunk and have a good time.  This is not saying that the band isn't good, I just feel that this is the class of people who the band is geared towards.