If we analyze gorgeous rock music from the perspective of psychoanalysis, it is a different music style even in the category of rock music. The completely gorgeous Hanfu, exaggerated and dazzling makeup, vague gender differentiation and swaying music rhythm are all natural expressions of young people's psychological emotions. The deep excavation of two different forms of love between the opposite sex and the same sex, as well as the dazzling appearance pursuit, make this kind of rock and roll formalized, and even become a metaphysical behavioral lifestyle rather than just a musical form. This kind of psychology, which is more dependent on people's animal nature or primitive humanity, is expressed and perfected with the help of rock music, which is full of explosive force and is inherently subversive and rebellious. This combination is natural, sincere, perfect and unobtrusive.
In the 1970s when gorgeous rock was popular, young people came all the way from the 1960s. When love and peace become an ancient and vulgar slogan, when gregarious and promiscuous people are always in a state of chaos, when dancing with flowers in the street, rainbow suits and marijuana can no longer arouse people's interest, when there is no more war to oppose, no more oppression and violence. Young people naturally begin to think about how to express themselves better, how to entertain their lives, and how to ignite their youth to another height. At this time, they still chose rock music. Some rock musicians also began to hate the weakness and decadence of hippies and began to think about creating another cool, dazzling and passionate music style, so gorgeous rock was born.
If we carefully analyze T-Rex, the originator of gorgeous rock, and Marc Bolan, the leading figure, their own music style and dress are closer to gloomy classicism and more like Goth. The truly gorgeous rock leader is the chameleon David Bowie.
Hong Kong people translate David Bowie into David? Bao Er, naturally reveals an attractive atmosphere. Although David Bowie's music career has lasted for decades, his gender is vague and dazzling. Even today, many years later, he is still trying to deny the same-sex orientation of that year, and together with his neutral dress, he is attributed to being young and frivolous. But still can't deny its important role in gorgeous rock music. Its image of wearing a long white dress and waving long hair at the concert has almost become the most classic image in gorgeous rock music, and it is also an unrepeatable secular swan song.
How long can a beautiful woman persist in the world? A year? Two years? Ten years? Eight years? This problem seems to be an endless cycle. Beauty is short from beginning to end, so there is no need to regret it. If beauty is a long term and does not end soon, it can only be forgotten by the world after being tortured by time and used to it.
1974 "Hollywood street revival and dance" concert in Hollywood palladium. Participants included iggy pop and his assistant band (clown), New York Doll, Marc Bolan and his Tyrannosaurus Rex. At that concert, Marc Bolan announced that "glamour rock is dead".
It is the best ending to announce the death of gorgeous rock by the person who created it, just as it is destroyed by the person who found it. It's better than letting it dry naturally, aging into an old woman crossing the street and dying in humiliation.
Gorgeous rock has been born for more than 30 years. Teenagers who used to dress sexy, glide through guitar solos with extremely low and high voices, detonate speakers and indulge dazzling sparks have today integrated into society and become bricks on the wall contributing to human progress. Take off gorgeous clothes inlaid with amphibole and sequins, wear a black suit marked Giorgio Armani and walk into the room, fade the red at the ends of your hair, comb your sparse hair, wash off your makeup, and wait for years to carve wrinkles.
Through TV, I saw David Bowie, a handsome man who amazed the world, accepting the lifetime achievement award on the Grammy stage. He wore a gray suit suitable for big occasions, carefully tied a tie, gray hair and wrinkled face, just like an old gentleman. How can you believe this is what I blurted out when I was interviewed by a reporter and asked why I was wearing makeup? "Why? Because rock and roll is a prostitute, it is necessary to wear makeup and perfume (why? Because rock and roll is a prostitute, you should dress up and perform. That teenager. It's just that he also needs such a laurel tree to decorate his empty cupboard and dresser in front of the mirror, where all kinds of cosmetics used to be placed.
In the past 30 years, although David Bowie tried all kinds of music styles, he won the title of chameleon. But the most brilliant part of his music career is that he is the leader of gorgeous rock. In the past 30 years, the form of gorgeous rock has been replaced by various trends. Tight clothes and accessories of various small objects were taken over by punk and added with dark rebellious elements. Dramatic singing, exaggerated makeup and formal stage costumes were accepted by popular metals, and a strange dark flower grew. Manson, rob zombie, Kiss, Queen and Christian Death, all kinds of rock stars, absorbed the essence of gorgeous rock in those days and made their own brilliance.
When the gorgeous whirlwind of sentimental years quickly swept across the European continent, and then quickly disappeared, nostalgia, thinking, sacrifice and questioning all became the shackles of this kind of rock music. Since its birth, rock music has been accompanied by contemporary young people's demands for self-awareness. The inner desire for freedom, ideal and future can be amplified by the roar of a guitar with electronic sound, so as to announce the world. After all, all forms of rock music can only belong to a specific era. After that era, the form of rock music was naturally declared the end of its fate. There is no regret, just as the years will eventually return to dust, and the day when everything in the world ends is just empty talk.
If you want to keep something, say something, more than 30 years after the birth of gorgeous rock. We can only describe it calmly:
This is a youth story in the 1970s, short and pithy. It's hard not to be fascinated by the people you meet, because a group of talented young people get together and make music of that era. The meaning is commented by later generations, but the dream is your own.