Well, it all started somewhere.
Here's a little story/theory that kind of centers around that focus.
Think about Kurt Cobain, and why he might have killed himself. Sure, he was tired of being a rock star. Yes, he might have been ashamed about how popular his music had become. But an idea that came up a while back was that he might have felt guilty about betraying the aspects of D.Y.I. hardcore punk rock that had influenced him so much when he was still a struggling musician. He might have realized that he opened the doors for what was to follow: bands like Blink 182, Green Day, Sum 41, Good Charlotte and also bands like Staind, Puddle of Mudd and Nickelback... all that terrible bull****.
Now think about the hardcore, underground punk scene. Jello Biafra once said about Grunge music that, "instead of having rock-inspired punk bands, you now had punk-inspired rock bands". Basically meaning that at the time that punk rock had come along, rock music had become something that was very pretentious and drawn-out, and all these punk rock kids were just inspired by the original artists like Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley. When several punk rock artists were asked what was really punk to them, Steve Jones mentioned hippies and Dr. Know mentioned Chuck Berry's "duck walk".
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