Pearl Jam Vs. M?tley Crüe is a Frontrunner for Pointless Beef of 2022
If you haven't been following the always-changing tour schedules in our country nowadays, know that the '80s are still alive and well. Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder is traveling around on his solo run as we speak. M?tley Crüe, Def Leppard, Poison, and Joan Jett will kick off a stadium jaunt this summer.
Now, you'd think that the figureheads of these groups would be happy to also be alive and well in these unholy times, content to have fans that still like their music, all these years later. Nope. Because we have one of our first (of what will likely be many) pointless beefs of 2022, between Vedder and M?tley Crüe's Nikki Sixx. We don't have much to explain here. In short? These guys just really, really do not care for each other. Apparently, they never have.
Vedder took the first shot in this fight, via an interview with The New York Times last week. "I'd end up being at shows that I wouldn't have chosen to go to—bands that monopolized late-'80s MTV," Vedder said. "The metal bands that—I'm trying to be nice—I despised. 'Girls, Girls, Girls' and M?tley Crüe: [expletive] you. I hated it. I hated how it made the fellas look. I hated how it made the women look. It felt so vacuous."
Eddie, man, that's not very nice. Let bygones be bygones. Now, that should've been it. Nikki Sixx, though, didn't take kindly to the random shot fired behind the curtains of a Times interview, delivering a response via Twitter Rant. Our favorite.
One of the most boring bands in history! Marbles in his mouth! Tell that to all the tweenagers who spent weeks perfecting "Even Flow" in Guitar Hero 3. Regardless, as it stands now, the last act of this simmering beef came from Pearl Jam's official Twitter account.
Well, considering that the rock music world of the '80s and '90s is getting a PR boost via Hulu's Pam and Tommy (which depicts the relationship between Pamela Anderson and M?tley Crüe's Tommy Lee), we'd guess that everyone is feeling like airing out any and all feelings. Just play nice, OK?
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