![]() ![]() Everyone, including Nina, assumes the song is about her, but when the two meet, he doesn't have any idea who Nina is. An early episode had Maya interview a famous British rocker whose big hit was called "Nina in the Cantina". ![]() In the final season of Just Shoot Me! Nina has a washed-up British pop-star as a boyfriend.Of course, he's wildly popular with the teenage girls in the movie, while the boys complain that his lyrics make too much sense (one wonders what sort of music they listen to). Unfortunately, his lyrics are made up of Future Slang that seems to be a random mish-mash of unrelated scientific terms. Protozoa of the band Microbe in Zenon.Nighy took on a strikingly similar role to the above in the better known Love Actually as Billy Mack.Still Crazy: The story concerns Strange Fruit, a fictional British rock band led by Bill Nighy.Get Crazy - among the players at a New Year's Eve show at a venerable ballroom venue is jaded Mick Jagger expy Reggie Wanker, played by Malcolm McDowell.Very early example - the American International Pictures movie Bikini Beach (1964) had Frankie Avalon playing pop star Potato Bug (a Shallow Parody of The British Invasion rockers) in very cringe-worthy I Am Very British mode (apparently all Britons acted like Terry-Thomas at the time.).Steel Dragon from Rock Star, albeit a band hiring an American singer to act as a Suspiciously Similar Substitute.Self-parody, because when you substitute "comedian" for "rock star", a lot of Aldous Snow's character is like that of his actor, Russell Brand.Subversion, because he is actually a Nice Guy, albeit one with serious problems.Horrible fashion sense? Well, it's highly eccentric. Indifference or random causes? Both: "African Child" is an attempt to make a "cause" song that just proves he doesn't care. Excessive drug and alcohol consumption? Check, although Forgetting Sarah Marshall is during a clean period. Snow is interesting in that he combines exaggeration, subversion, and Self-Parody: Aldous Snow in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek.Ben Sergeant and his band in Tamara Drewe.It doesn't help that the film captures them in their decline, as they struggle with the release of their latest album and a concert tour that eventually sees them get second-billed to a theme park puppet show. The titular band from This is Spın̈al Tap provides the page image.Now that you've had a history lesson on the Hair of Rock 'N' Roll 101, scroll through the gallery below to see our favorite 'dos throughout the years. The only ones who seem to be clinging onto it are the dudes in Steel Panther, but that's a whole other ballgame. We'd mention guys like David Draiman, but he opted out of the hair party.īut seriously, thank heavens the Aquanet era has been left in the past. It's a free for all with hair, and it's great to see everyone expressing themselves uniquely. Lzzy Hale went for a mohawk and even wrote a song about what she expected the public's reaction to be. The newer rockers, on the other hand, seem to just be going with the flow - pun entirely intended. While it's great to see legends such as Slash and David Coverdale still rocking the same hair they were 30 years ago, other giants have ditched their youth entirely and adopted new looks. Really, everyone's pretty much doing whatever they want. Since the start of the 2000s, there is really no general hairstyle anymore. Jerry Cantrell eventually gave up and sported his long, straight locks, and Chris Cornell whipped his massively curly mop around on stage until he chopped it a few years later.Īfter grunge started to fade away, nu-metal came in with a bang. Everyone pretty much ditched the hairspray, including Alice in Chains, who began as a glam metal suit. Things were a bit more lax in the '90s when grunge exploded. It's a surprise that the glam rockers in that era didn't completely deplete the world of bleach and Aquanet. It became less about the natural texture and more about how to make it the biggest it could possibly be. The '80s were.interesting, to say the least. The latter half of the '70s was when punk took over, briefly, their thing was more about looking like sea urchins. ![]()
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