The Mullet Is Cool Again

Now that Rihanna has reinvented the mullet, will graying rockers turn to the “skullet”?

Want to feel old? Ask yourself this: Are you ready to go back to that “business in the front, party in the back” haircut you wore in the ’80s? The one you thought was the summit of cool when you saw it on David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Simon Le Bon, and others?

If your answer is, “No, I look bad enough on Zoom meetings already,” you may need to sit down for this: The mullet is back with a vengeance.

As in the ’80s, musicians are in the vanguard or—depending on your perspective — the rearguard of the trend.

Rihanna may have started the resurgence of the mullet in 2013 when she wore one with blue lipstick. The revival gained steam early in the pandemic when Miley Cyrus introduced her pixie mullet on Instagram, two decades after her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, dubbed his country mullet the “Kentucky Waterfall.” The trend has taken off in recent months as the demand has surged for the haircut nicknamed the “Mississippi Mudslide,” the “Tennessee Tophat,” and the “Achy Breaky Big Mistakey.”

Why the mullet and not Taylor Swift’s signature shag? Or a style inspired by one of Lady Gaga’s wigs: the chignon, the side ponytail, or the lob (“long bob”)?

All of this may toss a challenge to older millennials or Gen-Xers who want to show that they’re still cool but no longer have enough hair for a full-dress mullet. One…

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