>Michael Stipe began experiencing hair thinning and a receding hairline in the late 1980s, leading him to cut his hair short in 1989, around age29, as he described it was getting harder to hide behind his hair. He acknowledged his hair was an important part of his image and a way to hide his shyness, but eventually, it became a challenge to keep long hair.Would they have become even more famous if he hadn't gone bald?
>>127830476Don't care about this. Admire Rodrigo's hot bod
>>127830476nowadays you can just get surgery to fix htisthat and a little minoxidil
>>127830476THAT'S ME I THE CORNERLOSING MY LONG HAIR
>>127830476They were immensely successful. What the fuck are you talking about?
>>127830518Forgotten now
>>127830479based
>>127830479fpbp
>>127830555On planet retard maybe. They were incredibly successful and influential and they've been broken up for a good while now. They were never big on the press stuff or attention in general. They were just a bunch of dudes who made music and were quite good at it. This thread is fucking retarded.
>>127830579Who did they influence? Radiohead? They're also irrelevant now.
>>127830600I'm it gonna run through an entire list of people that REM influenced. Google is your friend. They were a very important band and successful in ways most bands could only dream of. I get you're 14 and trying to sound cool on the internet but your shit's all retarded.
>>127830649All irrelevant bands now. I get your in your 20s and like to pretend it's the 80s/90s or whatever but it isn't.
>>127830579I said "even more famous" but you clearly don't know how to read. I never dismissed their popularity nor their influence. Idiot.
>>127830479Was she recreating that fampus vietnam war pic
>>127830686Who is relevant to you since you have your finger on the pulse of what's going on?>>127830695>90 million albums sold>one of the best selling bands of all time>successful when Michael was bald>even more popular afterAre you retarded?
>>127830748>Who is relevant to you since you have your finger on the pulse of what's going on?Nobody anymore.
>>127830756Fuck off if you're gonna be one of these people who talks shit and has nothing of value to contribute.
>>127830770Musicians don't have anything of value to contribute anymore.
>>127830748When he had hair* is what I meant to type
>>127830775We're on a music board discussing music. What the fuck anon
>>127830784Discuss when music was good then rather than shit like REM that sucked all the joy out of music.
>>127830788What are some good bands in your opinion then? Curious to hear how REM sucked the joy out of music too
>>127830748Again, "even more popular". You're just outing yourself as a total braindead imbecile.
>>127830476damn, didn't know he was cute. still hate rem.
>>127830476I suspect Stipe would have trooned out to keep the twink aesthetic had he been that age today
>>127830819How much more popular do you want a band to be? And them hitting their mainstream stride after Michael went bald dismisses anything you said in your first post.
>>127830502Kek
>>127830476just get good hair plugs, literally unnoticeable
>>127830476the arguably got their most famous when he was bald
>>127830476this buck look zesty ah hell
>>127830747kek
>>127830600They were the start of alternative and independent and underground. Should I say they were the first ‘good’ band who was that and built a following without a major label, student radio and touring themselves. Many 90s bands used that model pointing at their success. And they have some good songs
>>127830600any band from the 90s alternative boom was influenced by REM, and all those bands influence the rock bands of today
>>12783055519 million on spotify is not forgotten, even youth still listen to them
>>127830476SHINY HAPPY FOREHEADS EVERYWHERESHINY HAPPY FOREHEADS LOSING HAIR
