They become big enough that they’re just radio bands or MTV bands and those early years of them struggling and playing Legion halls and dive bars to 5 people a night gets overwritten by the whole, “So-and-so from the major label discovered them and signed them to a million dollar record deal and then all of a sudden they had a big hit on MTV and are huge.” With the exception of Billy Talent, all of these artists in the book were the first Millennials to get famous but the writers doing the Sum 41 cover story or the Avril Lavigne cover story were the Gen Xers who were maybe too young to interview Nirvana or Smashing Pumpkins so they just want the next big grunge band, they don’t want what the kids are listening to. A lot of people turn their backs on the stuff they liked when they were kids because they’re like, “Oh, that was stuff for kids and I am now more mature and my taste is more refined than to bother with what the kids are listening to.” There’s stuff that’s cool at a certain age and there’s stuff that’s not cool at a certain age.
Author: emmoore@nospam.punknews.org (emmoore)
Published at: 2025-06-03 21:00:01
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