The 1987 rock artist still lives on the fringes of Hollywood, but enjoys the massive popularity of the masses. Their hip-length hair is tied up in colorful napkins, their faces are heavily painted with oil-painted makeup, bizarre tattoos bloom from ripped T-shirts and leather jackets, and tight leather pants wrap their impotent desires. They have a fancy-sounding name: glam metal. These people are the protagonists of the post-hippie era and the orphans of the cultural revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. They tried to use the most vulgar life attitude to confront the rampant seriousism at that time. Their music mixed the simple triads of the 1950s. Retro vibes, the punchy beats of heavy metal and hard rock, the rhythm of the 1960s "Bubble Gum Dance," and the pop singing of the Young Singer Contest. On the road of the rise of glam metal, MTV channel played the role of accomplice. For the first time, the visual impact of rock music became more important than the music itself. A group of bands with the spirit of "like thunder is worse than eye-catching" became big stars: Crew Clowns, WASP, Twisted Sisters, Poison... but none of them are as gorgeous as Arsenal, which has 1987's only superstar, Stacey Jake (Tom Cruise). Jax's glory began on Sunset Boulevard's "Sunset Strip"—a strip about 2. 4 km of streets. In the Sunset Strip before the 1990s, you could see the best of the American entertainment industry and alternative culture. But whoever comes to the Sunset Strip is bound to find a strip club or bar — like Whiskey GOGO, Pandora’s Box — for a rock concert. People's favorite is "The Bourbon Club" because club owner Dennis (Alec Baldwin) and his best friend Lonnie (Russell Brand) are always signed to a top-notch band, and most importantly That's where Jax, who grew from nobody to rock star. Just as Jax sees his predecessors like Kiss and Viper as role models, his own legend has inspired countless boys and girls with rock and spring dreams to log on to the Sunset Strip, such as Bourbon Club bus boys Drew and Rub. Table girl Shelly. However, in that special era, what prevented them from realizing their dreams was not underappreciated talent, but a group of wives who were idle at home. Led by Los Angeles Mayor's wife Patricia (Catherine Zeta-Jones), this group of women is trying to get all rock records to have a movie rating on the grounds that their children are contaminated with lyrics full of sex, drugs and violence review label. Of course you can protest with an angry fist, however any freedom is fucking shit in the face of capitalist market rules - the Bourbon Club and several others are facing closure due to the difficulty of paying the rising rent on the facade Crisis, which gives Patricia and her grudges an opportunity to let the fire of morality burn across the Sunset Strip.
But clubs are like tenacious weeds. Maybe MTV and commercialization have corroded the purity of rock music, but political forces have never been the gravediggers of rock music. At least, in 1987 with the great Jax, rock music is not dead. . The Bourbon Club and the Sunset Strip will survive Jax's solo farewell concert, as Donna Summer (disco, died in 2012) sings in "The People of the Sunset Strip": Life here is very Sexy, the pace of life here is fast and people continue that life, in the Sunset Strip.
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