biggest band. And that kind of causes a sort of a paralysis of self identity. Like the anxiety Nirvana seemed to feel from the position they occupied in the culture was very palpable. And that then sort of like, you know, became kind of endemic with with anybody who wanted to be interested in culture. This idea that when you looked at, say, the previous decade where there was a real desire for hugeness, where like the idea of being commercially big in any idiom of art. The idea of being big almost like the ends just for the means or whatever. It's like if you're you're massively successful, the meaning of what you're doing almost becomes secondary to the proof that you are succeeding. And the 90s had a discomfort with that, that a lot of people saw that as really kind of cheap. And that's the whole idea of like selling out. The idea of selling out has existed for a very long time. I mean, you know, people would say Bob Dylan sold out by going electric, you know, the whoever record (26/57)
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