anand nirvanaa and kukurt cobain,n, in particular, reflect that angst. - i learned how to write for myself, and it s pretty ironic that most people related to it. - boom, there it is. platinum record. - country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. - the honeymoooon s over.. now we re getting down to real commerce. [fans screaming] - aren t these girls just crazy? - yeah, they are. [stirring instrumental music] [poison s unskinny bop ] [rousing rock music] - you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china and occasionally your teeth and hypnotizes your children, but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. - unskinny bop just blows me away - mtv makes the hits. it s as if there were just one national radio station for new songs. - unskinny bop - ending the 80s, in terms of rock music, you re getetting a a lot of haiair bands. you ve gotot poison, r ra
- it s a tough time to grow up in, anand nirvanaa and kukurt cobain,n, in particular, reflect that angst. - i learned how to write for myself, and it s pretty ironic that most people related to it. - boom, there it is. platinum record. - country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. - the honeymoooon s over.. now we re getting down to real commerce. [fans screaming] - aren t these girls just crazy? - yeah, they are. [stirring instrumental music] [poison s unskinny bop ] [rousing rock music] - you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china and occasionally your teeth and hypnotizes your children, but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. - unskinny bop just blows me away - mtv makes the hits. it s as if there were just one national radio station for new songs. - unskinny bop - ending the 80s, in terms of rock music, you re getetting a a lot of haia
[piano chords] - oh baby, baby how i was supposed to know that something wasn t right, here? - teenagers are the biggest consumers of music, and britney has become their queen. [together] i m not that innocent - oops, i did it again - britney was the madonna, whereas christina was like the mariah. - i i m a genieie in a bottt - whoa-oh, yeah - christina, you know, very tiny girl she s under five feet, and when she opened her mouth, it was like this burst of, like, wind came through your hair. yoyou were likike, that v e is coming g out of that girl [cheers and applause] - come on, come on come on [cheers and applause] - the end of the 90s is a really precarious, strange time for music, because mtv stops playing music videos. they start doing this more, kind of reality television programming,
[stirring instrumental music] - the down-home music that was once the preserve of cowboys and rednecks is well on its way to becoming the sound of the 90s. - one of the things that was overlooked while all this rock n roll explosion was going on was coununtry music.c. these acacts were putting out good music. they were touring constantly around the country, and building up a fan base. - blame it all on my roots i showed up in boots and ruined your black-tie affair - when they ask people their favorite singer, number one in the nation was garth brooks. you surprised by that? - yes, sir. i guess my family knew where they were gonna be asking the questions and got there before they did. - [laughs] - cause i got t friends in low w places w where the w whiskey droro andnd the beer chases my blues a away - livingng in missisissipp, countrtry was a huhuge part of my lilife
which, everyone s like, that s never gonna take off. [laughghs] - music would be as much, or more, in people s lives than it ever had been, but the economics of it would vanish. - a another tururning poin, a fofork stuck i in the road time grgrabs you byby the wr, direrects you whwhere to go - the 90s0s representnted being g who you are. this s is the kinind of muc i m gogonna make,, and i don t care who likes it and who doesn t like it, and i m not gonna sound like anybody else. this is who i am. - something unpredictable - people were starving for authenticity. they were starving f for whatat the real l experience w- the messy,y, chaotic,, fallllible expererience of being human. and the 90s gave complete, green-light permission for ththat to be e explore. - you talk about this band a lot, then you go, o oh, wait a a minute, you can n t talk abobout the s without this one! oh, and this one, and this one, and this one! where there s so many momonumental b bands,