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Originally Posted by zxlkho
You say this like he completely invented grunge music. Apparently you've never heard of the Melvins, Green River, or Screaming Trees. To me it seems like Cobain was just some guy that got lucky and had his name attached to the genre.
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No. I say it like he was the focal point of a shift in popular culture. Nothing of what I said was about grunge rock, it was about Cobain's songwriting. He influenced how people wrote songs, how they expressed their inner turmoil, how they were able to exorcise their demons and hate and rage and frustrations at the unfairness of the world. His songwriting proved that you could be equal parts emotional and philosophical and still be successful. That doesn't mean his followers managed to toe the same line or even step up to it without becoming parodies and farces.
Whether or not you like the fame he hated is irrelevant. Fact is, Nirvana was it. No, they weren't born fully formed from the death wound of the hair metal dragon, so what? They're still the absolute pinnacle of influence from that style onto the mainstream. Had there not been any substance to his music and band Nirvana would have gone the way of so many other 'should-haves'.
Yes, Nirvana might have never existed if it weren't for The Melvins or Tad or the Screaming Trees. Though I doubt many people today would have heard of The Melvins, or Tad, or The Screaming Trees had it not been for Nirvana catapulting that style onto the mainstream.
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