Someone who poses for effect
Not to be confused with
poser
.
Models
(
Les Poseuses
) by Georges Seurat
A
poseur
is someone who poses for effect, or behaves affectedly,
[1]
who affects a particular attitude, character or manner to impress others,
[2]
or who pretends to belong to a particular group.
[3]
[4]
A poseur may be a person who pretends to be what they are not or an insincere person;
[5]
they may have a flair for drama or behave as if they are onstage in daily life.
[6]
[7]
"Poseur" or "poseuse" is also used to mean a person who poses for a visual artist?a
model
.
[8]
[9]
[10]
Examples
Oscar Wilde (right) and Lord Alfred Douglas
The playwright
Oscar Wilde
has been described as a "poseur".
[11]
Thomas Hardy
said of him, "His early reputation as a poseur and
fop
? so necessary to his notoriety ? recoiled upon the scholar and gentleman (as Wilde always innately was), and even upon the artist".
[6]
Lord Alfred Douglas
said of Wilde, "That he had what passed for genius nobody will, I think, nowadays dispute, though it used to be the fashion to
pooh-pooh
him for a mere poseur and decadent."
[12]
The painter
James A. Whistler
has been sometimes described as a "poseur" for his manner and personal style.
[13]
[14]
It has been suggested that Whistler's genius lay partly in his ability to cultivate the role of the poseur, to "act as if he were always on stage", in order to stir interest, and cause people to wonder how such a poseur could create work that was so serious and authentic. His fame as an artist seemed to require that he present himself as a poseur.
[15]
The playwright and critic,
George Bernard Shaw
, has been described as a poseur; in that context Shaw is quoted as saying, "I have never pretended that G.B.S. was real ... The whole point of the creature is that he is unique, fantastic, unrepresentative, inimitable, impossible, undesirable on any large scale, utterly unlike anybody that ever existed before, hopelessly unnatural, and void of real passion."
[16]
In the ancient Greek comedy
The Clouds
, the playwright
Aristophanes
portrays
Socrates
as a "poseur".
[17]
Etymology
The English term "poseur" is a
loanword
from French. The word in English use dates back to the mid 19th Century. It is from the French word
poseur
, and from the Old French word
poser
, meaning "to put, place, or set". The
Online Etymology Dictionary
, suggests that "poseur" is in fact the English word "poser" dressed "in French garb, and thus could itself be considered an affectation."
[18]
Use within contemporary subcultures
"Poseur" is often a pejorative term, as used in the
punk
,
heavy metal
,
hip hop
, and
goth
subcultures
, or the
skateboarding
,
surfing
and
jazz
communities, when it is used to refer to a person who copies the dress, speech, and/or mannerisms of a group or subculture, generally for attaining acceptability within the group or for popularity among various other groups, yet who is deemed not to share or understand the values or philosophy of the subculture.
Devotees of various music subcultures, like the
goth subculture
, value authenticity highly
Punk subculture
David Marsh, in an article in
Rock & Rap
, speaking of "those first punk kids in London" says, "The terms in which they expressed their disdain for hangers-on and those whose post-hip credentials didn't quite make it came straight out of the authenticity movements:
Poseurs
was the favorite epithet".
[19]
Ross Buncle argues that eventually the Australian punk scene "opened the door to a host of poseurs, who were less interested in the music than in UK-punk fancy dress and being seen to be hip".
[20]
[
unreliable source?
]
Describing a rehearsal of The Orphans, he says there "were no punk-identikit poseurs" present.
[21]
A 2015 article about early punk subculture in
The New Republic
states that punk "...was as immersive as a motorcycle gang or membership in the Mafia; part-time participants were derided as "poseurs", while any deviation from orthodoxy was a "sellout"...; this punk militancy created "... an economic and social ghetto which was nearly impenetrable to corporate infiltration and which only adventurous or deranged souls dared enter."
[22]
In a review of
The Clash
film
Rude Boy
, a critic argued that this "film was another sign of how The Clash had sold out ? a messy, vain work of punk poseurs".
[23]
US music journalist
Lester Bangs
praised punk pioneer
Richard Hell
for writing the "strongest, truest rock & roll I have heard in ages" without being an "arty poseur" of the "age of artifice".
[24]
Another critic argues that by the late 1970s, "punk rock had already, at this early date, shown signs of devolving into pure pose, black leather jacket and short hair required".
[25]
Please Kill Me
includes interviews with punks in New York and Detroit who "rip their English counterparts as a bunch of sissified poseurs".
[26]
The term
poseur
was used in several late-1970s punk songs, including the
X-Ray Spex
song "I Am a Poseur", which included the lyrics "I am a poseur and I don't care/I like to make people stare/Exhibition is the name."
Another song using the term was the
Television Personalities
song "Part-Time Punks". The Television Personalities' song "was a reaction to the macho posturing of the English punk scene".
[27]
The lyrics argue that, "while Television Personalities were not themselves punks in the orthodox sense, neither was anyone else". The song "declared that either everyone who wanted to be a punk was one or that everyone was a poseur (or both)", and it argues that "the concept of [...] punk rock authenticity, of
Joe Strummer
, was a fiction".
An article in
Drowned in Sound
argues that 1980s-era "
hardcore
is the true spirit of punk" because "[a]fter all the poseurs and fashionistas fucked off to the next trend of skinny pink ties with
New Romantic
haircuts, singing wimpy lyrics". It argued that the hardcore scene consisted only of people "completely dedicated to the
DIY
ethics"; punk "[l]ifers without the ambition to one day settle into the study-work-family-house-retirement-death scenario".
[28]
The
Oi
band
Combat 84
has a song entitled "Poseur" which describes a person changing from a punk to a skinhead, and then into a Mod and a Ted. The lyrics include the lines "Poseur poseur standing there/You change your style every year."
In 1985,
MTV
aired a concert documentary, featuring performances by
GBH
and
the Dickies
, entitled
Punks and Poseurs: A Journey Through the Los Angeles Underground
.
[29]
1990s?2000s
Dave Rimmer writes that with the revival of punk ideals of stripped-down music in the early 1990s, with
grunge
musicians like "[Kurt]
Cobain
, and lots of kids like him, rock & roll ... threw down a dare: Can you be pure enough, day after day, year after year, to prove your authenticity, to live up to the music [or else] live with being a poseur, a phony, a
sellout
?"
[19]
Refused
's
Dennis Lyxzen
and
Bad Religion
's
Brett Gurewitz
used the term to refer to early 2000s-era
pop punk
fans as "kids ? more specifically the new wave of punk poseurs who came to the music via bands like
Good Charlotte
". They argue that these young listeners want "not to have to think and [instead they] would rather use music as
escapism
[,] and too many bands seem willing to comply".
[30]
One writer argued that the Los Angeles punk scene was changed by the invasion of "antagonistic suburban poseurs", which bred "rising violence [...] and led to a general breakdown of the hardcore scene".
[31]
A writer for
The Gauntlet
praised the
US Bombs
' politically oriented albums as "a boulder of truth and authenticity in a sea of slick poseur sewage", and called them "real punk rockers" at "a time where the genre is littered with dumb songs about cars, girls and bong hits".
[32]
Daniel S. Traber argues that attaining authenticity in the punk identity can be difficult; as the punk scene changed and re-invented itself, "[e]veryone got called a poseur".
[33]
One music writer argues that the punk scene produced "...true believers who spent long days fighting the man on streets of the big city [and living in squats who] always wanted to make punk rock less a cultural movement than some kind of meritocracy: "You have to prove you're good enough to listen to our music, man."
[34]
Joe Keithley
, the singer for
D.O.A.
said in an interview that: "For every person sporting an anarchy symbol without understanding it there’s an older punk who thinks they’re a poseur."
[35]
The interviewer, Liisa Ladouceur, argued that when a group or scene's "followers grow in number, the original devotees abandon it, [...] because it is now attracting too many poseurs?people the core group does not want to be associated with".
[35]
The early 1980s
hardcore punk
band
MDC
penned a song entitled "Poseur Punk", which excoriated pretenders who copied the punk look without adopting its values. The lyrics sheet packaged with
Magnus Dominus Corpus
, the album on which "Poseur Punk" appears, contains a picture of the band
Good Charlotte
juxtaposed underneath the lyrics to "Poseur Punk". As part of MDC's 25th anniversary tour in the 2000s, frontman "Dictor's targets remain largely the same: warmongering politicians, money-grubbing punk poseurs (including
Rancid
, whose Tim Armstrong once worked as an M.D.C. roadie), and of course, cops".
[36]
NOFX
's album
The War on Errorism
includes the song "Decom-poseur", part of the album's overall "critique of punk rock's 21st century incarnation of itself". In an interview, NOFX's lead singer
Mike Burkett
(aka "Fat Mike") "lashes out" at "an entire population of bands he deems guilty of bastardizing a once socially feared and critically infallible genre" of punk, asking "[w]hen did punk rock become so safe?"
[37]
Heavy metal subculture
Jeffrey Arnett
argues that the heavy metal subculture classifies members into two categories: "acceptance as an authentic metalhead or rejection as a fake, a poseur".
[38]
In a 1993 profile of heavy metal fans' "subculture of alienation", the author notes that the scene classified some members as poseurs, that is, heavy metal performers or fans who pretended to be part of the subculture but who were deemed to lack authenticity and sincerity.
[39]
In 1986,
SPIN
magazine referred to "poseur metal".
[40]
In 2014, Stewart Taylor wrote that in the Bay Area thrash metal scene in the 1980s, in venues where bands like
Exodus
played, metal fans who liked "
hair metal
" bands such as "
Ratt
,
Motley Crue
and
Stryper
" were considered to be poseurs.
[41]
A sociology book states that "[t]rue [metal] fans separate themselves from the posers through devotion to the history of the genre as well as the history of the particular bands and artists."
[42]
If a music fan came to an Exodus show at thrash clubs "...with a Motley Crue shirt or a Ratt shirt,
Paul Baloff
[of Exodus] would literally tear that shirt off the person's back," and then the band would "tear up the shirts and tie them around their wrists and wear them as trophies...[or]...badges of honor."
[43]
Additionally, "...Baloff would often command the audience to 'sacrifice a poseur'", a ritual that involved the audience throwing the suspected hair metal fan onto the stage.
[43]
The Swedish black metal band
Marduk
, which aimed to be the "...most brutal and blasphemous band ever", uses Nazi imagery, such as the Nazi Panzer tank, in their songs and album art (e.g., their 1999 album is titled
Panzer Division Marduk
).
[44]
This use of Nazi imagery offended
neo-Nazi black metal
bands, who called Marduk poseurs.
[44]
In the heavy metal subculture, some critics use the term to describe bands that are seen as excessively commercial, such as MTV-friendly
glam metal
groups in which hair, make-up, and fancy outfits are more important than the music.
[
citation needed
]
During the 1980s,
thrash metal
fans called
pop metal
bands "metal poseurs" or "false metal".
[45]
Another metal subgenre,
nu metal
is seen as controversial amongst fans of
other metal genres
, and the genres detractors have labeled nu metal derogatory terms such as "mallcore", "whinecore", "grunge for the zeros" and "sports-rock".
[46]
Gregory Heaney of
Allmusic
has described the genre as "one of metal's more unfortunate pushes into the mainstream."
[47]
Jonathan Davis
, the frontman of the pioneering nu metal band
Korn
, said in an interview:
There's a lot of closed-minded metal purists that would hate something because it's not true to metal or whatever, but Korn has never been a metal band, dude. We're not a metal band. We've always been looked at as what they called the nu-metal thing. But we've always been the black sheep and we never fitted into that kind of thing so … We're always ever-evolving, and we always piss fans off and we're gaining other fans and it is how it is.
[48]
Ron Quintana wrote that when
Metallica
was trying to find a place in the LA metal scene in the early 1980s, it was difficult for the band to "play their [heavy] music and win over a crowd in a land where poseurs ruled and anything fast and heavy was ignored".
[49]
David Rocher described Damian Montgomery, frontman of
Ritual Carnage
, as "an authentic, no-frills, poseur-bashing, nun-devouring kind of gentleman, an enthusiastic metalhead truly in love with the lifestyle he preaches... and unquestionably practises".
[50]
In 2002, Josh Wood argued that the "credibility of heavy metal" in North America is being destroyed by the genre's demotion to "horror movie soundtracks, wrestling events and, worst of all, the so-called 'Mall Core' groups like
Slipknot
and
Korn
", which makes the "true [metal] devotee's path to metaldom [...] perilous and fraught with poseurs."
[51]
In an article on
Axl Rose
, entitled "Ex?'White-Boy Poseur'", Rose admitted that he has had "time to reflect on heavy-metal posturing" of the last few decades: "We thought we were so badass [...] Then
N.W.A
came out rapping about this world where you walk out of your house and you get shot. It was just so clear what stupid little white-boy poseurs we were."
[52]
In the
Alestorm
song "Heavy Metal Pirates", numerous metaphors and allusions to pirates are made, including references to cutlasses, and it includes the line "
No quarter
for the poseurs, we'll bring 'em death and pain". The
Manowar
song "Metal Warriors" includes the lines: "Heavy metal or no metal at all whimps and posers leave the hall" and "...all whimps and posers go on, get out".
Goth subculture
Nancy Kilpatrick's
Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined
defines "poseur" for the goth scene as: "goth wannabes, usually young kids going through a goth phase who do not hold to goth sensibilities but want to be part of the goth crowd...". Kilpatrick dismisses poseur goths as "Batbabies" whose clothing is bought at [mall store]
Hot Topic
with their parents' money.
[53]
Hip hop subculture
Authenticity or "street cred" is important in hip-hop culture
In the
hip hop
scene, authenticity or
street cred
is important. The word
wigger
is the specific used to refer to caucasian people mimicking black hip-hop culture. Larry Nager of
The Cincinnati Enquirer
wrote that rapper
50 Cent
has "earned the right to use the trappings of gangsta rap ? the macho posturing, the guns, the drugs, the big cars and magnums of champagne. He's not a poseur pretending to be a gangsta; he's the real thing."
[54]
A
This Are Music
review of white rapper
Rob Aston
criticizes his "fake-gangsta posturing", calling him "a poseur faux-thug cross-bred with a junk punk" who glorifies "guns, bling, cars, bitches, and heroin" to the point that he seems like a parody.
[55]
A 2004 article on BlackAmericaWeb claims that Russell Tyrone Jones, better known as rapper
Ol' Dirty Bastard
, was not "a rough dude from the 'hood" as his official record company biographies claimed. After Jones' death from drugs, the rapper's father claimed that "his late son was a hip-hop poseur, contrary to what music trade magazines published in New York" wrote. Jones' father argued that the "story about him being raised in the Fort Greene [Brooklyn] projects on welfare until he was a child of 13 was a total lie"; instead, he said "their son grew up in a reasonably stable two-parent, two-income home in Brooklyn".
The article also refers to another "hip-hop poseur from a decade ago",
Lichelle "Boss" Laws
. While her record company promoted her as "the most gangsta of girl gangstas", posing her "with automatic weapons" and publicizing claims about prison time and an upbringing on the "hard-knock streets of Detroit", Laws' parents claim that they put her "through private school and enrolled [her] in college in suburban Detroit".
[56]
As hip hop has gained a more mainstream popularity, it has spread to new audiences, including well-to-do "white hip-hop kids with gangsta aspirations?dubbed the 'Prep-School Gangsters'" by journalist
Nancy Jo Sales
. Sales claims that these hip hop fans "wore Polo and Hilfiger gear trendy among East Coast hip-hop acts" and rode downtown to black neighborhoods in chauffeured limos to experience the ghetto life. Then, "to guard against being labeled poseurs, the prep schoolers started to steal the gear that their parents could readily afford".
[57]
This trend was highlighted in
The Offspring
song "
Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)
".
A 2008,
Utne Reader
article describes the rise of "
Hipster
Rap", which "consists of the most recent crop of MCs and DJs who flout conventional hip-hop fashions, eschewing baggy clothes and gold chains for tight jeans, big sunglasses, the occasional
keffiyeh
, and other trappings of the hipster lifestyle". The article says this "hipster rap" has been criticized by the hip hop website
Unkut
and rapper Mazzi, who call the mainstream rappers
poseurs
or "fags for copping the
metrosexual
appearances of hipster fashion".
[58]
Prefix Mag
writer Ethan Stanislawski argues that there "have been a slew of angry retorts to the rise of hipster rap", which he says can be summed up as "white kids want the funky otherness of hip-hop [...] without all the scary black people".
[59]
African-American hip hop artist
Azealia Banks
has criticized
Iggy Azalea
, a white rapper, "for failing to comment on 'black issues', despite capitalising on the appropriation of African American culture in her music."
[60]
Banks has called her a "
wigger
," and there have been "accusations of racism" focused on her "insensitivity to the complexities of
race relations
and
cultural appropriation
."
[60]
Other genres and subcultures
Mark Paytress writes that in 1977,
Rolling Stones
frontman
Mick Jagger
called singer/songwriter
Patti Smith
a "poseur of the worst kind, intellectual bullshit, trying to be a street girl".
[61]
A music writer for
The Telegraph
called
Bob Dylan
an "actor and a rock 'n' roll poseur to rival
David Bowie
and Mick Jagger at their most flamboyant".
[62]
The
skateboarding
subculture attempts to differentiate between authentic skaters and pretenders. A
New York Times
article on the 2007 skateboarding scene notes that "some first-time skaters drawn into the sport by catchy choruses or candy-colored sneakers are dismissed as poseurs" who are "walking around with a skateboard as an accessory, holding it in a way we call 'the mall grab.'"
[63]
In the 1988 video game
Skate or Die!
, "Poseur Pete" is the name of the challenger for beginner-level players.
An
LA City Beat
magazine writer argues that "
dance music
had its
Spinal Tap
moment some time around the year 2000", arguing that "the prospect of fame, groupies, and easy money by playing other people's records on two turntables brought out the worst poseurs since
hair metal
ruled the Sunset Strip. Every dork with spiky locks and a mommy-bought record bag was a self-proclaimed turntable terror."
[64]
A
Slate
magazine article argues that while the
independent music
scene "can embrace some fascinating hermetic weirdos such as
Joanna Newsom
or
Panda Bear
, it's also prone to producing fine-arts-grad poseurs such as
The Decemberists
and poor-little-rich-boy-or-girl singer songwriters".
[65]
In 1986,
SPIN
magazine referred to "poseur
bikers
", individuals who ride motorcycles and wear biker clothing, yet who lack the missing teeth and scars of real bikers.
[40]
An obituary for Colorado motorcycle enthusiast Walt Hankinson stated that "[h]e was an old-time biker, not a poseur", because he "...wasn’t looking for the most stylish leather outfit and never had a fashion crisis about what to wear on the next ride", instead just wearing a "flannel shirt, jeans and a cloth jacket" when he rode his motorcycle.
[66]
In Canada, there are "
alleged military posers
", individuals who wear army uniforms and medals, who are not actually current or previous members of the armed forces. In November 2014, Ottawa police charged one of these alleged poseurs for impersonating a soldier, after he appeared in TV interviews during Remembrance Day ceremonies wearing a uniform and medals which he had no right to wear.
[67]
The concept of a "jazz poseur" dates back to the 1940s. Bob White from
Downbeat
argued that some jazz critics knew nothing about new jazz (
bebop
) and nothing about chords, tone, or the technical aspects of jazz; instead, they would just learn the names of a few old masters and "...become a romantic, a charlatan, a poseur, a pseudo-intellectual, an aesthetic snob, ...well on the way to success" as a jazz critic.
[68]
In the 2000s, the CBC produced a radio show about how to spot "jazz poseurs" in a jazz scene. These were described as people who do not know much about the music, but they can "name-drop" the names of famous performers.
[69]
Salon
writer Joan Walsh calls US politician
Paul Ryan
a Randian poseur. She claims that while he purports to believe in
Ayn Rand
's
Objectivist
philosophy, which harshly criticizes government social redistribution programs, he actually benefitted from these programs in his life.
[70]
Poseurs in the realm of sneakers and fashion have even been given their own name: hypebeast. First coined in 2007 on forums like
NikeTalk
, which were the social media of that time,
[71]
these people are said to "collect clothing, shoes, and accessories for the sole purpose of impressing others."
[72]
As opposed to the
sneakerhead
who purchases and collects shoes because he likes them, a hypebeast will only purchase a pair that is very popular among others and they gauge their self worth only on how many likes they can get on their
#OOTD
(outfit of the day) Instagram post with that coveted pair of sneakers on.
[73]
Other meanings
In furnishing parlance, a "poseur table" is a high, small table, used by a standing person to place a drink or snacks on while they talk to other people. Poseur tables are used in bars, lounges, clubs and convention centres.
[74]
Poseur tables facilitate conversation and mingling at social events, because guests are not restricted by fixed seating and they can move about more freely.
[74]
Some poseur tables are used with high stools.
See also
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