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Originally Posted by The Batlord
By whom? Kids/twenty-somethings/probably-many-thirty-somethings today don't care about disco one way or another. They might know a few songs, and might even know who performed those songs, but it's too far back in time to be anything more than their parents'/grandparents' music. Hair metal is about a decade closer to them, easier to listen to ironically, and had that weird renaissance back in the early-mid '00s that put Motley Crue back in the charts for a year or so. People don't respect it, but they actually do talk about it.
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There are quite a few bands today that seem to be influenced by Disco and that might bring new awareness to it. Time has a way of filtering out the bad and the better stuff survives. I think it is possible that Hair Metal and Disco can be seen in a better light than they once did in their respective eras cause people listen to the hits and not the crap that irritated people.
Hair Metal fad was followed by Grunge and Nirvana is commonly considered as the flag-ship band of that movement by fans and critics alike. So I can see where some people might turn that into a narrative - "Nirvana killed Hair Metal." I notice one of Eddie Trunk's co-hosts on That Metal Show absolutely hates Grunge. I wonder by carrying on how much he don't like them like that on the show he corroborate those rumors. I disagree with how Sam Dunn co-opts Punk and Grunge as some kind of off-shoot/sub-genre of Metal. I always felt that it was the opposite and that Metal for most of it's history co-opt Hard Rock, Punk and Hard-core and Grunge. Not the more modern sub-sub-genre of Metal that are mostly distilled derivative forms of those co-opted styles.
I think if Nirvana did indeed both launched the Alternative Rock movement and killed Hair Metal dead then they deserve the Congressional Medal of Honor. But I think people think that or say that to praise them or reveal how obsessed they are with them.
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