Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Let's pause here to talk about mullets, sweet mullets.

According to Wikipedia, The mullet is a hairstyle that is short at the front and sides, and long in the back. Often ridiculed as a lowbrow and unappealing hairstyle, the mullet began to appear in popular media in the 1960s and 1970s but did not become generally well-known until the early 1980s. It continued to be popular until the mid-1990s.


As many have laughed long and loud as a mullet sets foot in a room, the mullet is business up front and party in the back. The mullet was never popular, but always funny.


Now, what ass would really don a mullet? The haircut jumps out of crowds and renders the whole scene silly. Nothing can possibly be serious with a mullet around. As in, cancel this funeral, the mullet just tripped near the guest book, or, everybody go home, the wedding is over due to a mullet in row three.


Mullet. Where the hell did you come from?


Let's take a look at some of recent history's mullet heads (by the way, I am distracting myself with mullets so I do not think about how willful and difficult the dogs are with their training).


Scrolling back a few decades we find Tom Jones, David Bowie, David Cassidy from the Partridge Family (look it up), Paul McCartney, Michael Bolton, and Phil Collins.


History apparently wasn't happy with the plain old mullet and soon began to puff it up. In the 1980s we had permed mullets, and mullets that looked like they fluffed in the dryer. Duran Duran heads had mullets. Billy Ray Cyrus had a mullet. Someone must have coughed and suddenly other countries came down with the mullet. Eh hem.


OK. Enough. Additional reading shows me that the mullet is associated with social movements, rebellious factions of people who want to be different, sports player, social status, blue collar workers, hockey fans, and fans of country music. The mullet appears worldwide at various points in history and in many countries. People with mullets are often smiling. What the hell?


Every now and then I need to rant at something, and mullets just had it coming.

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