01-25-2018, 12:51 AM
I don't think grunge (whatever that means) killed the hairbands. MTV killed them. They started playing the hell out of Smells Like Teen Spirit, and packaged it as something new. There was literally nothing new about it. The Pixies, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., and the like had been doing it for years. MTV wouldn't play it.
I also think Appetite For Destruction by GNR helped to kill hair metal as well. They made just about everyone else look, and sound like phony trash. Metallica finally making a video also played a role. I doubt they would have expanded their following as much as they did if that video was for Shortest Straw and not One.
Do you see the common theme in MTV dictating what became popular?
I also think Appetite For Destruction by GNR helped to kill hair metal as well. They made just about everyone else look, and sound like phony trash. Metallica finally making a video also played a role. I doubt they would have expanded their following as much as they did if that video was for Shortest Straw and not One.
Do you see the common theme in MTV dictating what became popular?
I'm gonna break every record they've got. I'm tellin' you right now. I don't know how I'm gonna do it, but it's goin' to get done.
- Ja'Marr Chase
April 2021
- Ja'Marr Chase
April 2021
