Consequence continues Post-Grunge Week with a look at what the backlash against so-called “yacht rock” and “butt rock” can teach us about fandom. Check out our picks for the 50 best post-grunge songs and come back throughout the week for more charts, artist-driven content, games, and more.
Nowadays, we almost never listen to music we don't like. But when radio was the dominant medium for consuming songs, audiences had few programming options and no skip buttons. And something strange but probably inevitable happened: people formed violent opinions about the music that they would otherwise have been happy to ignore.
Nowadays, it's hard to imagine a new artist experiencing the strange and vicious fame cycles of the biggest post-grunge bands, Creed and Nickelback. In a previous article, we spoke with Creed's Scott Stapp, charting the group's dizzying rise, the cruel criticism and fierce backlash that led to the derogatory term “Butt Rock,” and now, their resurgence as a favorite among Generation Z .
Here's something that may sound familiar: Extremely online hipsters and some kids who just like to party, many of them with unusual facial hair, repopularized old commercial rock that their parents' generation considered uncool. The rise, fall, and rise of these post-grunge rockers helps shed light on another backlash from a few decades earlier.
“A journalist from Variety “He called me the other day and told me that the consensus among music journalists is that the two darkest days in Grammy history are when Milli Vanilli won and when I won,” Christopher Cross. saying shortly after turning 70 in 2021. “I couldn't believe how cruel that comment was.”
Cross, born Christopher Geppert, has endured more than a few cruel comments over the years. In 1979 his debut album. Christopher Cruz swept all four big categories at the 1981 Grammys (Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist) in a feat that would not be matched until an earthquake named Billie Eilish rocked the 2020 ceremony.
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