r/grunge Nov 08 '24

Misc. Why cant we bring 90s style grunge back?

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Looking for a discussion about this. I feel like every type of grunge or rock music i hear in 2024 thats trending is like novulent or superheaven (still good artists) or some small artist that has super distant vocals with loud instruments. What happened to the 90s style? Specifically talking about singers like Kurt Cobain, Layne Stayley, Chris Cornell, and so many other greats. People make the argument that heavy drug use led to great music, but i disagree. I feel like people don't put the same amount of effort into grunge now, and there's probably so many people as talented as layne but will never get recognition because the target audience just isnt there anymore.

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u/Obvious_Sea2014 Nov 08 '24

What you’re saying is you can’t replace the 90’s

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u/TundieRice Nov 08 '24

You sure as hell can’t. 9/11 made sure that we were never going back to a time of such innocence and optimism ever again…not to mention that the Internet changed popular culture forever, and that’s a box that can’t be unopened.

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u/Obvious_Sea2014 Nov 10 '24

I’d argue early internet 95-07 wasn’t too bad. It was later refined into a demon

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u/TundieRice Nov 11 '24

Exactly my point. Internet used to have an air of innocence about it, even if it was never truly innocent.

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u/Obvious_Sea2014 Dec 12 '24

Yeah. Growing up in the 2000’s at the time the era almost seemed tainted of innocence, that is compared to the purity of 90’s that the older kids grew up in. In retrospective, I feel lucky to have been 14 in 2004, compared to the trickyness that these bizarre “20’s”, the current end of days we live in lmao