![]() ![]() What’s amazing is that when you change SLTS definitively into a major key, it sounds so generically ’90s it’s amazing. Nirvana made such a massive impact that they established an inescapable template far too many subsequent bands tried to follow yet, as this shows, almost no one got it right. With that in mind, I’ve been thinking about this video for a while and this weird little experiment kind of explains how everything with the ’90s alternative revolution went horribly wrong. Indeed, the real problem with pop music is that we live in a world where everyone is telling you what is “pop” by cramming it down your throat without letting people organically decide en masse whether they like it. It’s not that Nirvana could have been a great pop band-they indisputably were a great pop band, and more precisely, they were great because they redefined the notion of what could be popular music. Let’s get something straight: Nevermind sold 30 million copies worldwide, and 10 million copies in the U.S. ![]()
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