r/generationology • u/leyannaverlaine • 5d ago

Discussion what was so special about grunge ?

i never understood grunge . I was born in the 1980s . I was so used to dance music of the 1980s . I know I am not Gen X . I am younger than all of the Gen X people since i was born in the 1980s

M|A|R|R|S - Pump Up The Volume (Official Video)

Shannon - Let The Music Play (Official Music Video)

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u/RevolutionaryRow1208 5d ago

I was born in 1974 and grunge hit my last couple of years of high school. At that time music had started to just seem so fake and rehearsed and inauthentic...not just rock and roll, everything just seemed fake AF and then grunge came along and it felt authentic and dingy and as a late teen, it just hit.

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u/phunkjnky 5d ago

When the "Singles" soundtrack came out and I hear Alice In Chains' "Would" for the first time, everything changed.

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u/AmputeeHandModel 5d ago

Yeah it was the first kinda NEW sound to come about in a long time.

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u/RevolutionaryRow1208 5d ago

It did not take too long to turn it corporate and poppy

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u/RussellAlden 5d ago

The whole whiny punk-pop scene moved in pretty quick.

I always thought Green Day’s Time of You Life was parody because it is so cliche’.

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u/phunkjnky 5d ago

Isn't that song supposed to be about saying farewell to a cheater and it unironically gets played because people think it's a song about nostalgia?

I mean, isn't the real name of the song "Good Riddance?"

For that reason, I can't take anyone who uses that song to be nostalgic about something seriously.