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- 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
- no, baby - after years of singing backup for such stars as michael jackson and rod stewart, she exploded onto the music scene in 1993, with her album tuesday night music club. - all i wanna do is have some fun i got a feeling i m not the only one - radio has been so long in coming in playing female artists, so it s definitely a different sort of environment and attitude now. if it makes you happy - female artists, like sheryl crow or liz phair even though they had success, they were still routinely marginalized within e every aspecect of thehe industry.y. ththere was nonot a lot of spacace in pop c culture where young women s thoughts, feelings, voices wewere respectcted or taken seriously. - i m just a girl - there was such a strange dichotomy to gwen stefani. super girly, but then also kind of tough, and d in front of thisis band of all g guys. - that s all that you ll let me be