
Style Stage: Hair, Style, and Music
Hair has quietly driven pop music's image for decades, and this Noisey production produced with Garnier Fructis traces the pattern from Little Richard's pompadour and Elvis's own version of it through Michael Jackson's jheri curl and red leather Thriller jacket to Beyonce's braids. Musicians, hairstylists, fashion designers, and cultural critics sit for interviews explaining how look and sound have always moved together, citing David Bowie, Prince, and Madonna as artists who built their creative identities as much through style as through music. The film also follows hair and fashion as protest: afros and dreadlocks tied to the Black Power movement, mohawks and shaved heads from punk rock, each read as a statement from a community without other platforms. Lighter moments get their due too, including Lady Gaga's meat dress at the VMAs. The throughline is simple and rarely stated outright elsewhere: pop culture's biggest visual signatures started as haircuts and clothing choices before they became history.