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Originally Posted by Soulflower
Hey Music banter I am feenin for some music knowledge. As you guys know Rock is not really my forte so I wanted to get some info. I commonly hear Nirvana is the blame for the decline in Hair Metal in the late 80's and I wanted to know your opinion on it. I always thought Hair Metal was a fad that had already declined by the time Nirvana really became popular which was in the early 90's. Did Nirvana's popularity influence generic rock bands like Nickleback, All American Rejects, Panic at the Disco, Foo Fighters or Creed?
How would you define grunge music and was it something that really impacted rock music for the better?
I have always been confused with why Nirvana are so highly regarded (not that they don't necessarily deserve it but just want more clarification as to why)
I notice a lot of the rock bands have really faded out commercially.
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The idea that Nirvana killed hair metal is a myth, and like all myths there is some truth to it.
Grunge did replace hair metal as the choice for rock music, but ultimately it was gangster rap that killed hair metal not grunge.
I'll give you an example. I grew up in Canada in a white working class neighborhood filled with heavy metal rockers with long hair, wearing jean jackets and acid washed jeans. By the early 90's all there little brothers were dressed like homies listening to Snoop Dogg and 2 Pac.
Around this time immigration also drastically changed the racial demographics of the neighborhood with a large amount of Indian (Punjabi) and Asian youths. There choice wasn't Axl Rose or rock in general, it was rap.
Take these two factors into account and it was rap music that killed hair metal, as its generally considered the most dominant genre of the 90's, and is still going relatively strong, where as grunge is now pretty much non existent.