I was at a show last night (the Muffs and the Leftovers at Maxwells) and I noticed a potentially alarming trend coming back from it's mid-90's grave. There were at least 5 white people in attendance sporting dreadlocks. Some had dreads that were interlaced with curly-ish hair atop their noggins, some had full on Bob Marley dreads going on- all looked like douchebags. Had I been at Bonnaroo or Hullabalooza or a head shop, I probably would not have thought much of it. Yet, I was at a pop-punk show, so it caught me a bit off-guard. 5 out of 100 or so people at this show were white and had dreadlocks. Dreadlocks on a white person is a universally terrible looking thing. I know that white people who like reggae or maybe white people aspiring to look like squatter punks might be drawn to the dreadlocks, but it's a look that only has one pay off for Caucasions worldwide- you look annoying. Like you're a member of Korn or Vanilla Ice when he did his gangsta rap album in like, 1992, or worse, a hippie that smokes a lot of pot and smells like a potent combination of patchouli oil and ripe armpits . I guess growing dreads when you're white comes with the territory of smoking a lot of weed. All in all, I totally condemn this look and hope that what I saw last night was just a coincidence. In closing, people are free to have any kind of hair they choose, just don't EVER EVER have dreads EVER if you're white EVER, motherfucker.
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