I've actually been thinking a lot about this recently and I don't think you'll like my thoughts.
Gens X, in particular seemed to have a real theme going on when it came to their music, whether it be the hair metal, new wave, shoegaze or grunge and that theme was "heroin is fucking awesome."
The mind actually boggles when one things about how many popular "counter-culture" bands had hit songs about the joys of doing heroin. Nirvana, The La's, Alice and Chains, Motley Crue, Stone Roses, and countless others.
Studios didn't try to co-opt the music and fail at it, they controlled both the alternative scenes and the shit that went on the radio with their hand-selected producers controlling everything.
If you don't believe me then look at Geffen. That's the label of Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Stone Roses and countless other Gen-X favourites then look at David Geffen himself, a full-blown globalist billionaire who gives tons of money to DNC causes, candidates and removing Trump.
Does that sound like a maverick label that Gen-X liked because it was authentic, or a big company cashing in on a jaded demographic?
We know how Geffen treated Sloan.
The rave scene was something different but I do have to ask, what was raving apart from being partying in the exact same way as the hippies apart from it being different hallucinogens and different music?
(And I say this as a man whose life was radically changed for the better at a party while on a candy-flip.)
The rave scene was never that big anyhow, and Toronto had one of the premier rave scenes in the world but that amazing scene really only was comprised of roughly 5-10,000 people, less than 1,000 of which who had ever attended a warehouse party.
Compare that turnout to a Korn concert. Or worse, a Backstreet Boys; there were far more far more boy band fans than there were people who had ever attended a single party in their lives.
The music industry understood what the rest of the media didn't understand, that the jaded elements of Gens X and Y were a large market and that they both sell to them and influence them provided they made it feel like a counterculture.
They did just that, and were very successful.
I've actually been thinking a lot about this recently and I don't think you'll like my thoughts.
Gens X, in particular seemed to have a real theme going on when it came to their music, whether it be the hair metal, new wave, shoegaze or grunge and that theme was "heroin is fucking awesome."
The mind actually boggles when one things about how many popular "counter-culture" bands had hit songs about the joys of doing heroin. Nirvana, The La's, Alice and Chains, Motley Crue, Stone Roses, and countless others.
Studios didn't try to co-opt the music and fail at it, they controlled both the alternative scenes and the shit that went on the radio with their hand-selected producers controlling everything.
If you don't believe me then look at Geffen. That's the label of Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Stone Roses and countless other Gen-X favourites then look at David Geffen himself, a full-blown globalist billionaire who gives tons of money to DNC causes, candidates and removing Trump.
Does that sound like a maverick label that Gen-X liked because it was authentic, or a big company cashing in on a jaded demographic?
We know how Geffen treated Sloan.
The rave scene was something different but I do have to ask, what was raving apart from being partying in the exact same way as the hippies apart from it being different hallucinogens and different music?
(And I say this as a man whose life was radically changed for the better at a party while on a candy-flip.)
The rave scene was never that big anyhow, and Toronto had one of the premier rave scenes in the world but that amazing scene really only was comprised of roughly 5-10,000 people, less than 1,000 of which who had ever attended a warehouse party.
Compare that turnout to a Korn concert. Or worse, a Backstreet Boys; there were far more far more boy band fans than there were people who had ever attended a single party in their lives.
The music industry understood what the rest of the media didn't understand, that the jaded elements of Gens X and Y were a large market and that they both sell to them and influence them provided they made it feel like a counterculture.
They did just that, and were very successful.
Yes to the grunge music analysis. Most of the band's people reference were unknown shills. Selling cds in the name of.