Life imitates art. This was top-down. Not bottom-up.
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I also felt this way about what I call 'angry white boy music'. They're both garbage.
Someone pointed out a few years ago that one of the reasons rap, particularly gangsta rap took off with whites is because it was the only masculine thing they were allowed to like.
The angry white boy stuff doesn't glorify murder like gangster rap. That's what made gangster rap especially evil: Kids suddenly believed murdering someone was admirable. I saw that and couldn't believe the culture I was living in.
Grunge was good. It stemmed from Gen X'ers dealing with the fallout of their Boomer parents doing drugs and divorcing. It was honest music with masculine grit that flushed away the party music that was hair metal.