What was it with '80s dude bands looking like chicks with the glam & makeup??

[zenba]

this is something i've wondered about. i think you can drive it back to bowie, i'm not sure who else was big in that era doin that type of thing. not sure why the 80s metal bands picked it up. it doesn't really make sense, and yet it kinda does. idk. i didn't question it at the time, tho i was a kid. didn't question it in the 90s or 00s either.

maybe just long term subconscious visual programming.

'rock star' isn't anywhere near the thing it used to be, either.