So one set of polarities, as you say, is performance vs truth. Kurt Cobain being felt to correct for Axl Rose.
One overarching theme in the first half of the '90s is the quest for the real. Grunge. But also in hip-hop. Where Wu-Tang invoke dirt and griminess. Keeping it real.
And ardkore pulling in the opposite direction - for a while at least - taking refuge in the unreal and utopian. I thought it was quite a good cultural balance.
One overarching theme in the first half of the '90s is the quest for the real. Grunge. But also in hip-hop. Where Wu-Tang invoke dirt and griminess. Keeping it real.
Then in the second half of the decade there's a renewed desire to be fabulous.
She twisted his melon, man.
He said he went off her when he saw her smoking loads of fags