I don't have a problem with hair metal. In fact I actually like a lot of it, but it's not something I woul listen to a lot. I would say my favorite band of that genre would be Def Lepard. My mom really likes them and I guess I like them because I've listened to them when I was younger. I can see how people would hate hair metal because of the cheesy music, but I don't think the point of it was to have great meaningful lyrics. It was to rock hard and party hard type of deal. The 80's was a very weird time for rock and music in general, but I feel like its not all bad.