Grunge kids instead of Emos?

Then it still wouldn't be what you think of as grunge. Music fashions and styles evolve quickly and die out as soon as the teenagers that follow it all grow up (with the next generation developing a bastardised form on their coattails). Things like hard rock and goth continue relatively unchanged because they're liked mainly by older types who'd never fit in with civilised society anyway. That's why you still get 40-year old big hairy bikers, while those who were grungers now wear suits and toddle off to work at Lloyd's, or whatever.
 
Well, my mother's insistence on describing my younger sister as "a grunger" until recently - despite the black eye makeup, general interest in black/dark clothes, and liking for bands like My Chemical Romance - would be correct.
:D
 

Sachyriel

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Shotguns sellout way more quickly, more idiots start listening to music that parents say leads to school shootings, and after the first female shooter in some random US school, censorship is made available for artists ona few lists, who are banned from radio, MTV, etc.

Underground venues spring up, and the teenage rebellion hits hard at the UN, who does nothing for the Human Rights of the Teenagers.
 
Is it just me, or does the plural, "Emos," sound like the name of an operating system which must have developed from DOS?
If you pronounce it differently, that is.

Ee-moss.
 
Nothin would change. The "grungers" would still be upper-middle class/upper class spoiled kids who "hate their life."
 
Fucking My Chemical Romance. Fucking fucks.

Still, no more annoying than guys wearing clumpy boots and long black coats during the mid-90s.
 
I couldn't see grunge remaining where it was. It was just a quick fad for a year or two whilst 'Britpop' warmed up.
 
I couldn't see grunge remaining where it was. It was just a quick fad for a year or two whilst 'Britpop' warmed up.
Well in America Brit Pop was really never popular. Here you could say Hard Rock, Punk and Nu Metal was just warming up.(During 2000 we had an explosion of Alternative stuff becoming popular)
 
From what I gather, around 2002 the garage rock scene featuring various "The" bands kicked off a renaissance of sorts of alternative/indie rock, with peaked shortly after 2004. You know, Franz Ferdinand, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, all that jazz. I'm really not sure what's become the "big face" of rock music since then, since I no longer subscribe to Spin magazine.

Apparently, throughout all of this ghetto bling-bling rap went up, to be replaced by Dirty South/crunk/hyphy rap, and then some softer "conscious" stuff from the likes of Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco.
 
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