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...what? Punk poets came and went, Kurt Cobain chief among them, and a folk-rock movement arose again--neo-folkies like Beck, Indigo Girls, Laura Love, all charged with youth but drawing on the past. Where was Dylan? His albums in the '90s have been mostly cautious retoolings--CDs laden with aged, unreleased material or dusty covers of traditional folk songs...
...major musical shift under way. "I associate it with generations of high school students coming along who want ownership of their own culture, who want something different from the people who came before them," says Goldberg, who in the past managed Bonnie Raitt and Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. "So this group is going for a female-leaning, optimistic music, in contrast to the grunge, gangsta-rap chapter that is waning...
After the premature deaths of Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, pop music seemed to take a step back. Hey, it's only rock 'n' roll--Does everyone have to be so uptight, so self-destructive...
Enter the sensitive-guy rocker. Sure, Cobain, Shakur and Smalls were sensitive in their own way--Shakur even recorded a tribute to his mom--but their vulnerability was often drowned in guitar feedback or thumping beats. Many of today's top male performers, like neo-soul crooner Maxwell, Christian-pop singer Bob Carlisle, soft-focus R.-and-B. singer Babyface and PG-13 rated rapper-actor Will Smith, go further; the aggression, the sharp edges, the dangerous sexuality are all gone, leaving almost pure...
...fails to contribute any new insights. On one song, Up in Arms, Grohl actually sings, "I cannot forget you, girl." It's hard to believe he can offer up a toothless lyric like that after the passionate wordplay of Nirvana lyrics like, "Stay away/ God is gay." Sure, Kurt Cobain wrote Nirvana's lyrics, but Grohl should have paid attention...