Glam metal

Glam metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that arose in the late 1970s in the United States. It was a dominan

Glam metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that arose in the late 1970s in the United States. It was a dominant genre in popular rock music throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.

The genre is also referred to, often by detractors, as hair metal. Initially musicians in these bands were derided as hair farmers , while the term hair metal was popularized by MTV in the 1990s, deriving from the tendency amongst some bands to style their long hair in a teased-up fashion. In modern culture, fans of the style have embraced the term glam metal. During its heyday, the genre was often referred to as heavy metal or simply metal. Also, this music has been called by the more derogatory terms cock rock and butt rock. ^{[citation needed]}