Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
I grew up in the '90s, and I loved Nirvana.
I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.
If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band's biggest hits. The structure's not different - the attitude was different. Except it really wasn't. It seemed a little more human.
I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods.
Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.
I like Nirvana, but I couldn't say that I was influenced by them. I like to tell a story.
In the '90s, it was cool to just like R&B. But I liked Nirvana and stuff, too.
Nothing sounded as sincere as Nirvana's music. It took a long time for me to accept that any other music could be good in other ways. Including my own.