Grunge Influence On Society

Music is one of the many ways that one person can express their admiration or disdain for society. Often, the former is typically the topic of modern music. Expressing love for the lives they’re given. However, there are many people in the United States who possess thoughts akin to the latter category in terms of feelings for society. For the popular bands of the early 1990’s, this could not be more true. Gaining momentum in the earlier part of the decade, grunge music became a movement, letting the listeners express their own disdain for society. This led to the creation of the “grunge ideal”, embodying all the emotions and actions that the movement embraced. The mindset of the teenage youth of the 90’s embrace the grunge movement, going against
You can do so through visual means, shocking people with modern art, audial means, shaking up the world with your music. Then there’s the people. People can shake the world. They can speak, they can advocate for anything as long as they have someone believing in them. Grunge is no exception to these rules. For the grunge movement, those would be the music and the people. First off, the music. The music was angry because the people were angry, people were depressed, and shone light on a part of America that normally wouldn’t have been seen. It melded an entire generation, now donning the fashion of the time and the “underground” music soon found itself popular for no explicable reason beyond Nirvana’s release of Nevermind (“Nirvana”). The music spoke to the youth, and told them it was okay to feel the way they felt. Nirvana and Pearl Jam were angry, and they could be as well. By the music rejecting mainstream society, their fans felt represented as anything but outcasts. But eventually, as time went on, the “grunge ideal” became mainstream, deterring all of its original fan base. It became popular fashion, and the alternative movement ceased to be so (“Grunge: A Success