Posts Tagged ‘posers’

Fake fan? Probably.

Metal fans come in all sorts of forms from the people that look-the-look to the people that you would never expect to be a fan of metal. That’s what is great about us is that you can’t just peg all of us with being a metal fan simply by appearances, not that there is anything wrong with that.

So when you’re a fan of a band is there really a difference between a real fan and a fake fan? We all have seen some celebrities like Miley Cyrus wearing an Iron Maiden shirt and we all know that she probably isn’t really a Maiden fan. What about the people that are legit fans but don’t know all the words to a lot of the songs or do not know exactly what song is on what album? Does that make them a fake fan?

What about when a fan doesn’t care for a particular record or other work from a member of that band. Does that make them a fake fan? I was a Metallica fan for years before they started making music that I didn’t like. I hated what they had released and even rediculed and talked a lot of shit about them, yet I still consider myself a fan. Does that make me a fake fan? Read the rest of this entry »

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What defines a poser? I think we all have own definitions which can be conflicting and very arguable. It’s easy for some of us “older” fans that have lived to see the rise and fall of the trendy subgenres, to point a finger a the nearest shithead and call him a poser simply by the way he/she looks. Sometimes people try too hard to look-the-look of their favorite band and it results in poser overload. We’ve all seen it. Most of the time you just have to shake your head and deal with the bands and fans that are opening for the bands you went to see. I usually hit the bar, grab a beer and avoid the karate moshing and shrug-banging. Shrug-banging? I don’t know exactly what it’s called but it’s when the ‘core bands hit their breakdowns and start doing the shoulder-shrugging/headbanging thing. Yeah, it looks about as stupid as the karate moshing and no, you’re not “hardcore dancing”, jerk-off. Read the rest of this entry »