Will anyone as popular as Nirvana ever go this anti-mainstream again?
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nah. only people popular nowadays are rappers and they care too much about money to try and sabotage their own careers
Slipknot?
Wait what did slipknot do?
Also
>Insane clown posss
Death Metal style vocals on a top 200 album
I feel like Kanye could do something really out there if he really wanted to. He's at the point where he could do literally anything and come out unscathed.
Arguably he already has , it just doesn't make any difference anymore
Yeezus was pretty out there as far as mainstream music goes
this
I was really excited when he said he was gonna put field recordings elements in Yandhi
Certainly his music can be expressive and unconventional.
Thing is, Kurdt was genuinely anti-mainstream, Kanye, Yeezy, Ye aint that kind of person.
in utero isn't "anti-mainstream", it's just a crap album. don't confuse the two
>Kurdt was genuinely anti-mainstream
lmao
>>Kurdt was genuinely anti-mainstream
>lmao
? seriously it was his whole problem.
>s just a crap album
It isn't , but.
youtu.be
what, no
genuinely anti-mainstream artists are like chumbawamba who, after gaining access, intentionally torpedoed every chance at further advancing in the upper echelons of the industry. kurt never did anything on that level; on the contrary he allowed his songs to be "fattened" for radio play and did mtv specials on the regular
nirvana's decline in popularity during the last few years of their existence is not the result of anything going according to kurt cobain's epic masterplan, it's because the guy had run out of songs. likewise in utero is not some grand statement, it's just an underwritten piece of shit that also happened to be the last studio album before cobain's suicide
it is. emancipate yourself from mental slavery mon
""anti-mainstream""
hahahahahahahahahaha
"When I was in school, I was pretty much the only kid who was interested in music. All the guys I knew were just into drinking, fighting, and chasing girls. I felt so different that for a while, I wondered if I was gay. The entire experience filled me with a seething hatred of the American macho male to this day. I like being around women and homosexuals."
Actually yeah, didn't think about Yeezus. Although there is still quite a strong pop element in there for it not to be too hard to swallow.
>top 200
>popular
you realize that top 40 stations dont include that shit right? thats what normies listen to
>the Chad Kanye who reads Nietzsche
>the virgin Kurt who reads cuck monthly
System of a Down if they ever released another album. Toxicity was a mainstream anomaly I sill struggle to understand.
The thing is Nirvana was always very streamlined grunge. In Utero less so, but it's a lot more straightforward then the bands that inspired it.
nirvana's songs were barely "grunge" at all, at least in a popular conception kind of way. pearl jam and alice in chains are the stereotypical grunge acts: sludgy riffage, grooves, and warbling lead singers
If nirvana wasn't grunge then why do so many post grunge bands like puddle of mud, creed and nickel back sound like them?
i personally don't think any of those sound very much like nirvana (aside from vocal production maybe), but of course nirvana had an influence on them, being one of the biggest american rock acts when those bands were teenagers/young adults. other than that i don't really get your line of reasoning here
but the fact remains: the only track on nevermind that is even grunge-adjacent is in bloom
Nirvana is for gays bro sorry
Listen to puddle of mud-she hates me
It sounds a lot like nirvana. Also bush started in 1992 and they sound a lot like nirvana too. Nirvanas alt rock/grunge sound is definitely a thing.
As far as which tracks sound grunge ish, I think papercuts, drain you, rape me, smells like teen spirit and in bloom are all very grunge/alt rock
Kurt doesnt deserve credit for having a cool k records tat, there are probably a dozen cooler people with this tat
>but the fact remains: the only track on nevermind that is even grunge-adjacent is in bloom
Finally someone who agrees with me