Quotes About Fads

The cult of self has become an addiction—feeding off the ego of self-glorification. The word cult encompasses many movements and ideas, but simply put, it describes a culture of alternative beliefs, fads, and trends, and tampers with just enough truth to knock many off balance.

You know what's the rage this year? ...Hats.

The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.

Every decade there's a new trend of films. Something else is more liked by the audience, something else is more popular.

Trends don't mean very much.

Wrestling goes through seasons. Some things become trends for a while or other things become a trend or the style.

I like trendy clothes just like everybody else does.

A lot of bands, they'll try to jump on the bandwagon or the fad or the fashion, and they'll skyrocket, have this quick overnight fame. But as soon as that fad or fashion changes, they'll go out with it.

Jumping on something too fast can be a mistake. Tae Bo was once the latest and greatest craze, but where is it now?

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a group that was less cool than Kiss. Going in to school with a Kiss T-shirt, you were asking for ridicule. In '77, they were one of the biggest bands in the world, but by '80, there was a severe backlash.

I see groups that are hot one minute, and next time you see them, they're asking if you want a soda with that Happy Meal.

What I did not want to be was a fad, because fads die. I had one of the George Michael Wham! neon-colored sweatshirts, and I thought it would never go out of style. Fads die.

Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

I think it's cyclical. Zombies have been around for ages, and vampires have run their course; we've had so many vampire movies.

By the time one song gains popularity, another one is introduced.

Capitalism cannot avoid fads and bubbles. Equity bubbles (as in 2000) have proved to be mild; debt bubbles are vicious.

I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.

Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.

we don't ask what works, we simply gravitate to what sounds miraculous.

What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.

Everything people call fabulous or amazing lasts for about ten minutes before the culture moves on to the next thing.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff.

Men call their sons Paul and their dogs Nero today.