Now, the party line, amongst rock critics anyway, is that grunge killed hair metal. That doesn’t look right to me in lower-case, actually. Grunge Killed Hair Metal. There. That’s better. That’s the party line. Late-’80s MTV, you get GNR, you get Poison, you get Def Leppard, you get Cinderella, you get (hooray!) Bon Jovi. You get Spandex. You get hairspray. They, at least, get a lot of chicks. But early-’90s MTV, you get Nirvana, you get Pearl Jam, you get Soundgarden, you get Alice in Chains. You get darkness, you get self-loathing, you get zero chicks, or at least zero chicks willing to
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