Don’t you have sometimes the
feeling, that nowadays, the songs seem to be all alike, the verses are all
expressing the same thoughts and they are all supporting the mainstream music
tendencies: be famous, be rich, be young and look pissed off ?
Where are the sincere lyrics,
the band’s unkempt appearances and rejection of theatrics; where is that “I
don’t care” attitude? Sure, the anger is there, the hatred, the angst, but
where is the dark humor, the clever lyrics that mean nothing but makes you
wonder over their importance? Like in “In bloom” when Nirvana makes fun of
their own audience who “sing along” or the Mudhoney track, “Touch me, I’m sick”
full of sarcasm and dark-humor.
Layne Staley, the late singer
of Alice in
Chains said in one of his interviews: "There's no huge, deep message in
any of the songs. It was just what was going on in my head right then. “ And
that’s what these songs were: instant thoughts, and instant, pure feelings.
Anything, whether it said only “we’re all alone” sounded just right with the
heavily distorted electric guitars and contrasting song dynamics.
Oh well, grunge had a rough
start (with the death of Andrew Wood) so
it was expected to have a rough end (with the death of Kurt Cobain, or the end
of Soundgarden)...
And now we’re stuck with emo
bands and angry teenagers head banging and making noise...
