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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Opinion / Mike McCray / News Airheads... I don't know why
Posted By Mike McCray on Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 5:12 PM
You know it's a slow weekend when the movie Airheads comes on HBO and you actually sit through the entire thing.
What's fascinating about watching this flick, which came out in the mid-'90s, in 2009 is the fact it's so dated that it could never be made again.
Just think about how much the music industry has changed since then.
Artists aren't dying to have their music played on their local stations anymore, if anything they want to distance themselves from how mainstream and generally whack those stations are.
Pushing cassettes directly to music executives or program directors? Sneaking into a station to try and get your demo in their hands?
This movie makes you appreciate the technological advances in music but it was a little sad at the same time. I was definitely the kid going to buy blank cassettes to sit next to the radio all day long and wait for them to play my favorite songs so I could record them.
One of the funniest things about this movie was in it's last scene. When they showed what happened to the band after their stunt at the radio station. They went multiplatinum? Are you serious? Definitely a different era. Now no one sells that much without the teenage girl demographic Miley and the Jonas' OR crossover appeal like Lil Wayne and Kanye West. True comedy, way ahead of it's time.
Either way, here's to kids everywhere who were lame in high school, musically talented and pulled the wool over everyone's eyes professionally and became superstars. Talented trumps being uncool every time (geeks rejoice). That's really what you could take from this movie.
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