People Against Grunge

[Jason]

Some people say grunge killed rock. However, a lot of other people equally disliked glam metal/rock. Of course, the beef against glam metal is that it was all about money and chicks and the beef against grunge is that it is too serious.

 

[Bill Frank]

Isn't most music now all about money and chicks? It's what we see now especially in hip hop. Some of them are into drugs too and they are caught as well as jailed in the process. As for grunge, I don't have any problems with it being too serious.

 

[Toby]

I don't care about what opinion other people have about grunge, it doesn't matter to me. Yes, it might have affected rock music but I will never say it's what killed rock.

 

[Grungie]

I don’t think anyone said it killed rock. People usually talk about how it killed hair metal.

 

[Jason]

I don’t think anyone said it killed rock. People usually talk about how it killed hair metal.

Yeah, they definitely killed hair metal. It's as gone as the dinosaurs. However, that's not saying it was bad, necessarily. It's all subjective.

 

[Sara]

Some people argued that grunge musicians were not skilled instrumentalists and heavy use of noise obscured the harmony of the songs but to me, grunge paved the way to address social disappointment.

 

[Bill Frank]

Yeah, they definitely killed hair metal. It's as gone as the dinosaurs. However, that's not saying it was bad, necessarily. It's all subjective.

Exactly. A lot of people are definitely going to interpret it in their own individual way which doesn't make it a general acceptable knowledge. For me, it still makes a lot sense and all the difference.

 

[Sara]

I can never agree to what everybody says because we have all our opinions on what and how things happens. I don't accept people's opinion easily unless it's a general fact.

 

[Jon]

I can never agree to what everybody says because we have all our opinions on what and how things happens. I don't accept people's opinion easily unless it's a general fact.

Some general facts can also be up for questionij because things change over time. When it's very obvious that things have changed, I wouldn't accept just about any opinion.

 

[karmacoma]

Some people say grunge killed rock. However, a lot of other people equally disliked glam metal/rock. Of course, the beef against glam metal is that it was all about money and chicks and the beef against grunge is that it is too serious.

I've heard the claim that Grunge killed Glam Metal/Hair Metal, but I don't think it's entirely accurate. Perhaps Grunge was more the final nail in the coffin rather than the bullet. Glam Metal/Hair Metal was already dying out a bit before Grunge went mainstream. Even Guns N'Roses were more stripped down in terms of aesthetic and a bit more raw sounding musically than the glam metal/rock that had been dominating at the time. But really by the late 80s, you started to see a lot more stripped down artists charting both in terms of aesthetic and sound: the folk explosion with Tracy Chapman, Indigo Girls, 10,000 Maniacs, Suzanne Vega, etc. were a foreshadowing of what was to come in the 90s.

Grunge was just more inline with where the culture was already headed toward which prioritized more "authenticity" over theatrics.