5. Teeny Pop
So recently Paramore has gotten a lot of press due to their presence on the, but they have been around since about 2000. I first saw them when I attended Warped Tour. I was fourteen, and their lead singer Hayley was fourteen. She was (and still is) five feet and two inches tall and was skinnier than me (hard to find). When I first saw her take the stage I was intrigued, but I was completely taken a back by the ability for this fourteen year old girl to get an entire audience involved with her band's relatively unknown music. This is why she is amazing: she can just as easily get audience interaction running around stage or standing still.
p.s.
she was 16 in this video....
4. Maynard James Keenan
Tool is an amazing band, and I could honestly go on about the talents of all parties involved. Yet, let me just give this paragraph to Maynard. His lyrics are raw and expose the most intense and devastating characteristics of human relationships. Much of his lyrics are dedicated to his struggles with addiction and failing relationships. His voice is flawless, and he sounds just about the same in or out the recording booth (no thank you auto tune). As an audience member it is difficult to avert your eyes from his passionate showcase of stage presence, and no one can deny his vocal ability.
p.s.
I miss the 90s.
3. Emily Haines
With an avert sexuality and gender ambiguity, Emily, has lyrics and stage presence that would make Lady GaGa blush. The front woman of the London based band Metric, Emily has no issue with poking fun at gender roles and society..."Tits out/Pants down/Over night to London/Touch Down/Look around/Everyone's the same," (Metric, Dead Disco). Emily will run on stage in a micro-mini and make the boys in the front row feel unworthy of looking onto her lady bits. It is her ability to confront the norms associated with gender roles as an added bonus (to her musical, lyrical, and performing) abilities that earned her a place on my list.
2. Gwen Stefani
So...she went crazy for a while? No one complained about the shiz of an album that resulted from Axle's breakdown (Chinese Democracy, really?). Gwen is a true rock star and creates a static energy in her audience with her energizer bunny dance moves. It doesn't matter that she and her No Doubt band mates are in their forties...I would still pay to hundred and sixty bucks to make sure I was in the pit to watch Gwen. Oh, wait, I did.
^^^^^ yep, I was right there.
1. MIKE PATTON
If you don't know who this is...take a few mins to educate yourself.
1. Davey Havok...
I have a tie. He is the vocalist for the alternative, punk band A Fire Inside.
--Nikki
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