There have been many surreal moments in popular music during my (and your) lifetime, moments in which you could consciously feel that something bigger than usual was happening. The most obvious (for me) was the release of the Smells Like Teen Spirit video, and then the ascendency of Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Piolots, and Smashing Pumpkins, and then the floodgates opening after that. But there were other moments. Two that stand out in my mind are the MC Hammer release of "2 Legit 2 quit," which basically buried party rap and it's excesses of ridiculousness (bragging about how much a video cost to make is probably not a sustainable model), and the related moment of first seeing the "Nothin' but a G Thang" video, and the onset of gangsta rap. Another one was the summer of '94 and the meteoric rise of Green Day, culminating with them overshadowing everything at Woodstock '94.
Mother 93
Mother 93
Mother 93
There have been many surreal moments in popular music during my (and your) lifetime, moments in which you could consciously feel that something bigger than usual was happening. The most obvious (for me) was the release of the Smells Like Teen Spirit video, and then the ascendency of Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Piolots, and Smashing Pumpkins, and then the floodgates opening after that. But there were other moments. Two that stand out in my mind are the MC Hammer release of "2 Legit 2 quit," which basically buried party rap and it's excesses of ridiculousness (bragging about how much a video cost to make is probably not a sustainable model), and the related moment of first seeing the "Nothin' but a G Thang" video, and the onset of gangsta rap. Another one was the summer of '94 and the meteoric rise of Green Day, culminating with them overshadowing everything at Woodstock '94.