At the fateful moment when Amadeus has mentioned, among the names of the singers competing at the Sanremo Festival 2024, that of The Sadmany wondered who they were.
Outsider, and therefore not to be underestimated (also from a Fantasanremo perspective), it is one band known mostly in underground circles, a little emo, a little trap and a lot of punk.
This last inclination shines through above all in the beauty looks of the members, or rather in theirs hair. Theø (Matteo Botticini), in fact, sports one green foliagePlant (Francesco Emanuele Clemente) one blue and Fiks (Enrico Fonte) one pink crest with pointed locks.
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Unmistakable symbol ofpunk aestheticbefore on Fiks' head, the crest appeared with different variations on many international stars, who dictated the styles and rules of this movement, first of all the Sex Pistols.
It was with them that British punk was born in the 1970s, the one that inspired almost everyone, thanks above all to the intuitions of the visionary manager Malcolm McLarenhusband of a certain Vivienne Westwood.
The designer, at the beginning of her career at the time, created and sold clothes in London shop Sex. From his hands everything was born, from miniskirts to corsets, from latex trousers to mesh t-shirts finished with studs, up to articles that winked at sadomasochism. Among the loyal customers there was also a group of kids which accompanied the clothes with mohawks, short messy and often colored hair and dark make-up, and which McLaren decided to unite into a group, the Sex Pistols indeed. Thus took the first steps of a movement that was not only musical but also aesthetic and continues to this day.
In fact, how can we not see those of the bassist in the hair of the members of La Sad Sid Vicious or the frontman Johnny Rotten? But also of the same Westwoodwhich over the years has certainly been no exception when it comes to hair style.
The haircut that is most associated with punk culture is precisely the crestor rather the Mohawksknown in Italy as Mohawk cuta hairstyle that consists of shaving both sides of the head, leaving a strip of central hair, normally quite long.
Over the decades many musicians have brought it, each finding their own way to do it.
From Keith Flint of The Prodigy who opted for an opposite version, head shaved in the center and high, colored hair on the sides; to Miley Cyruswho in a period of his life sported hair that wasn't exactly Mohawk, but rather rock-punk.
Not to mention the Blink-182, from which La Sad are also inspired musically, who have never spared themselves from the hairdresser. The hairstyles sported over time especially by the singer and bassist are iconic Mark Hoppus and the guitarist Travis Barkercurrent husband of Kourtney Kardashian and therefore certainly not without trends, even extreme ones.
The similar crest exhibited in the early 2000s by is very thick Bill Kaulitzleader of Tokio Hotel, an emo group also probably among the stylistic and musical inspirations of La Sad.
Among the Italians, few reached the peak before Fiks. But there are those who did it in Sanremo: Payà, the frontman of BoomDaBash who brought a red one to the Ariston stage in 2019.
Crests aside, who knows if the emo-punk group that is preparing to debut in the most important singing event in Italy was inspired by celebs who had already exhibited before them multicolored hair in competition.
For example Loredana Bertèalso present this year.
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OR Boss Doms in 2020.
And going beyond Sanremo, how can we forget the head shots of Billie Eilish?
Or going back to the legends, of David Bowie?
Color, color and lots of color. Punk, rock and pop.
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