lemme at it!

Motorhead's Lemmy being asked:

"What does heavy metal mean to you?"

"It means never being able to get a serious review of your music. You get reviews of your bullet belt, you get reviews of how loud it was, you get reviews of what the crowd looked like, you get reviews of how ugly you were, whether you had a shave or not...but you very rarely get reviews of anybody taking your music apart and looking at it, you know, ever.

Whereas they love to analyze stuff that I think is vastly inferior to the music, the way your hair is and all that...in the 60s and the 70s you would have just laughed at it, because it is so banal. Hopeless."

Interview here

Virtually every person I've met who claims to dislike heavy metal points to precisely these outward appearances for not liking it. Stuff like "all that big hair, double bass machismo stuff isn't up my alley". You know. No one wants to understand what the hell the guys are playing.