kind of fringe thing. You know, like Warrent was touring with Trickster and, you know, all these bands like the New Kids on the Block had a major tour. A lot of these things that we think about as kind of like 80s ideas, they were still happening in 1990. But starting with the release of Nevermind, there was a real shift in what the way it was perceived to understand a young person. Then in order to understand the modern young person, you almost had to understand it through Kurt Cobain and through the idea of these kind of the aesthetics and the values being propagated by this movement in music. You know, Nirvana was the most important band in the 90s, but not for musical reasons necessarily. I mean, their music was important, but more so had to do with non-musical reasons. This idea that the most important thing about Nirvana was that they perceived their success as humiliating, that they were embarrassed to be the biggest band in the world, and that they were constantly seemingly (23/57)
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