A love letter to nu-metal beards
Men’s clothing is way less exciting than women’s. Men pretty much have three colours of trousers on their bottom halves and a choice of no buttons, a few buttons or lots of buttons up top. There are three available sleeve lengths, and that’s it. That’s your lot. The only area of fashion where men get to be creative and women don’t, is facial hair, and no musical genre has ever supported facial hair creativity like nu-metal. The much-maligned genre is all too easily dismissed, all too easily parodied, and in a lot of cases, all too hard to defend – for every truly great band it produced (and there were plenty) there were a dozen identikit outfits with swiftly-acquired sleeve tattoos. For every giant anthem, there’s a bunch of samey misogynistic claptrap. ...