Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder VS. Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx

It’s the next rock star fight we didn’t know we needed, and we still don’t know that we need it. It all started with Eddie Vedder telling the New York Times:

“I used to work in San Diego loading gear at a club. I’d end up being at shows that I wouldn’t have chosen to go to — bands that monopolized late-’80s MTV. The metal bands that — I’m trying to be nice — I despised. ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ and Motley Crue: [BLEEP] you. I hated it. I hated how it made the fellas look. I hated how it made the women look. It felt so vacuous…

“[Then] Guns N’ Roses came out and, thank God, at least had some teeth. But I’m circling back to say that one thing that I appreciated was that in Seattle and the alternative crowd, the girls could wear their combat boots and sweaters, and their hair looked like Cat Power’s and not Heather Locklear’s — nothing against her. They weren’t selling themselves short. They could have an opinion and be respected. I think that’s a change that lasted. It sounds so trite, but before then it was bustiers. The only person who wore a bustier in the ’90s that I could appreciate was Perry Farrell.”

It didn’t take long for Nikki Sixx to respond with the following tweet.

Pearl Jam then responded with their own tweet of a video from a live Pearl Jam performance saying they “loved their bored fans.”

[New York Times] [Twitter: Nikki Sixx] [Twitter: Pearl Jam]