Billie_J_Buttfuck - 2008-07-06
This was the other possible direction music was taking pre-pop punk. The Vines were being hailed as 'The Next Nirvana', and with them were groups like The Hives and The White Stripes.
The Vines were the ones who started the skinny jeans, skinny hoodie look, along with several pop-punk stand-bys, and the kids started dressing like them. The music would likely have stood the test of time, but unfortunately, between tension between bandmates (one of my professors, recalling a Vines concert she saw, described the lead singer cold-cocking the lead guitarist), an unrelenting touring schedule, and ever-swelling mammoth egos, the band collapsed.
This left a bunch of poorly dressed kids looking for something to believe in. Enter Treble Charger/Sum 41/Avril, and the rest is tragic fashion history.
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bacon-swiss - 2008-07-06 The Vines were the ones who started the skinny jeans, skinny hoodie look? Naw, dude.
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Billie_J_Buttfuck - 2008-07-07 It did fucking rock. And it's a shame the band fell to shit.
Their new stuff just isn't the same.
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waxeater - 2008-07-09 "The Vines were the ones who started the skinny jeans, skinny hoodie look, along with several pop-punk stand-bys, and the kids started dressing like them."
Amazingly ignorant.
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Billie_J_Buttfuck - 2008-07-09 I don't have to prove me right, waxeater. I've done my research. You have to prove me wrong.
Whenever you're ready.
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