The nineties began with the grunge scene, an alternative style of rock and roll that revolutionized rock music today. This music that was once praised by MTV was gradually pushed out to make way for the sound of generic rap beats, watered down heavy metal and sugar coated pop tunes.
The pattern of the nineties is nothing new. The seventies and eighties both saw fresh new music that preceded a pour attempt at a new innovative sound. In the seventies disco followed the likes of rock legends such as Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and Pink Floyd. The eighties began with such innovative bands as Dire Straits, Van Halen and the Red Hot Chili Peppers and ended with groups like New Kids on the Block and Milli Vanilli that overlapped into the early nineties. The nineties began with an original brand of rock, alternative. This style of music produced bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice and Chains that revolutionized rock and roll. Some of these bands are still around today but are over shadowed by the trendy pop and rap
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The main reason for the rise of trendy pop and rap is MTV. They get stuck on a couple different types of music and then exploit it. Record labels see MTV as a way to get the band they promote to sell records. To do this they find bands to fit into the mainstream sound. These bands hold positions in the top ten for a while but soon are thrown into the one hit wonder bin because their sound lacks originality. By the time this happens a couple million people have already spent fifteen of twenty dollars on their CD. You are at a loss and the record company is up several million dollars.
Another reason why music of this sort thrives is because of the availability of it. All someone has to do is turn on their television and it is right in front of them. Nowadays just about every car being made has a CD player, which discourages people to listen to the radio. People can go out and buy the CD they just heard on MTV and play their favorite song for however long they want to. The radio is a valuable resource for smaller or more underground bands to be heard. Without the radio many of those ban
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