And I felt the music scene itself was changing quickly in my favor. I’d felt very out of step with the music of the eighties. The polish, the theater, the style and content. But the winds of popular music now seemed solidly behind my sails. Overnight, my boy-next-door musical voice felt relevant. It was as if “my people” had risen from the rubble after Nirvana blew the roof off the music business, and they had infiltrated the mainstream. It wasn’t just grunge that Nirvana ushered in. They introduced a far-less-formal way of looking at things. Music was suddenly less slick, more cerebral, like
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