View Full Version : What song killed one era and started the next?


TMC
06-05-2023, 01:58 AM
For example, many people regard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRIol_hW8k8) Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-smells-like-teen-spirit-killing-hair-metal-an-oversimplification-of-history.164924/page-2) (1991) as the (https://at40fg.proboards.com/thread/5881/hair-bands-dead-when-nirvana) death (https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-nirvana-grunge-really-kill-off-1980s-culture/672709) of the '80s (https://www.quora.com/Did-Nirvana-and-or-Grunge-really-kill-off-the-1980%E2%80%B2s-culture) music (https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/can-we-definitively-list-bands-which-were-killed-by-grunge-nirvana.349056/) era and start (https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/can-we-definitively-list-bands-which-were-killed-by-grunge-nirvana.349056/) of the '90s grunge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6690aqgVLU0) mainstream era. Just a year later (https://rockthebells.com/articles/the-chronic-videos-showed-a-different-side-of-the-west/), hip-hop saw an explosion (https://www.theringer.com/2022/4/29/23047296/los-angeles-riots-uprising-1992-ice-cube-ice-t) of gangsta rap (https://djbooth.net/features/2018-11-27-hip-hop-greatest-years-part-two) with the likes of Dr. Dre (https://medium.com/@mediamaven0103/backspin-dr-dre-the-chronic-1992-e1384c4ad2bc) and Snoop Dog (https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/21/arts/pop-music-snoop-dogg-s-gentle-hip-hop-growl.html).