30 years later, in search of the real impact of Nirvana's 'Nevermind'

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Legend has it that Nirvana's 'Nevermind' and the grunge boom ended hair-metal careers and dominated popular music. An in-depth look back tells another story.

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Grunge bands were big on MTV, no doubt about it; their videos offered viewers a window “into a whole culture,” Krim says, just as Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg were doing at the same time with their gangsta-rap “.” The music informed fashion and movies and defined how Generation X presented itself; it also moved rock away from hair metal’s depiction of women as bikini-clad arm candy.

Eric Martin of Mr. Big remembers hearing Atlanta’s Collective Soul, which had a top 20 hit in 1994 with the manicured “Like late-stage hair metal, grunge was eventually bled dry through the corporate exploitation of second- and third-generation acts — your Sponges and Creeds and Candleboxes. “It became about just following a trend,” says Wood. “It was like TikTok: the Grunge Challenge.”

Dave Grohl’s Foo Fighters perform at the Vax Live concert at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium on May 2, 2021.

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