Shredding?

I am posting the two following videos because I seem to have been functioning under the false assumption that "shredding" required the musician doing so to be super passionate and amped up and thrashy. Lots of hair tossing and guitar waving and "o-faces" mixed with angry faces.

The first video, by "Jacqueline" shows a decent amount of dexterity (certainly better than I could ever hope to do), but she looks so bored while she's playing her music. I had trouble getting into it simply because I had trouble believing SHE was into it.

Now, the second video is by Meghan the Metal Queen, and she is playing a classic by Dethklok, and doing a damn fine job of it as far as I can tell. But she's sitting down. And in this case, I dig it. I figure it takes a lot of badassery to be that calm while shredding so epically.

Anyway, I guess I learned something new today. I will do my best to apply this lesson to my life somehow in the future.