Dear god post-grunge was awful. I call it Iraq war core. Fun fact: the lead singer of this is Aaron Lewis, a noxious chud who wrote a miserable song called “Am I the Only One” a few years back.
Dear god post-grunge was awful. I call it Iraq war core. Fun fact: the lead singer of this is Aaron Lewis, a noxious chud who wrote a miserable song called “Am I the Only One” a few years back.
I mean, it’s easy to dump on the music of that time. but for all you Monday morning quarterbacks, what mass culture radio-friendly art was even possible for white american suburbia when history ended?
there was no Spotify that would populate an infinite playlist for you just based on your affection for a single you heard in your favorite treat commercial. what we were offered was a buffet of engineered, corporate committee designed and painstakingly crafted Rebellious Cool™.
it wore t-shirts, jeans and had spiky hair with frosted tips. it wore wrap around shades indoors and had “tribal” tattoos. it wore skate shoes and wallet chains.
it was pained and painful.
Ska was at least happy jumpy music, pop punk, while not much better, was a bit more interesting as a scene.
Post grunge was just void of all the interest or meaning grunge had. All it had left was vague white anger and whiny misogyny.
CW mention of suicide
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If you were too twisted for that bro stuff, there was a whole other awful flavor of angry white boi: Linkin Park, Papa Roach, koRn, Slipknot, powerman 5000
Hey that song is kinda good. Now you have to hear this which elevates it to new heights.
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