My generation rules because.....

We had awesome music. No. Wait. Some of it was awesome. But, I guess what I really mean is that my generation saw such a dramatic shift in the cross "generation" (is that a word?? It is now!) of music in such a short time. My parents grew up with the Beatles, Elvis, and Chubby Checker. And they were all great. But they were all the same type of "style." My generation kicks butt because, in SUCH a short span, we saw SO many different styles emerge....and simultaneously fade out...only to then become popular again. Here's what I mean:

7th grade: Still riding the wake of NKOTB, Perfect Gentlemen, and other wussy boy bands...

8th grade: The emergence of "boy-rappers" like Vanilla Ice, Snow, Color Me Badd, and more. Lots of rich white kids in overalls and triple fat goose jackets. Kind of funny

9th grade: The origins of Grunge Rock emerge, suddenly creating a rift between the spoiled rich kids who think they are rappers, and the spoiled rich kids who think they are oppressed and poor. Lots of costume changes. Lots of hair growing. Bands like Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam, Temple of the Dog, and Soundgarden emerge. And that piece of crap known as Nirvana gets popular

10th grade: Grunge is all the hype...where did the crooners from "After 7" or "Jodeci" go? Oh. I know. They are all out at thrift stores looking for flannel shirts. More "grunge" gets popular. Alice in Chains manifests themselves as a powerful rock and roll force...unknowingly making the transition from grunge back to hard rock.....

11th grade: Bands like "Rage Against the Machine," Limp Bizkit, ICP, etc emerge....all of the sudden we have hardcore rap with a hard rock metalish edge...look at all the different music going on here! This is awesome!!

12th grade: Now, EVERYTHING is "alternative." Alternative is everywhere, and bands from Smashing Pumpkins to Belly to L7 to Screaming Trees to Spacehog and everything in between are all classified as a nice, neat, freaky genre....stations like 95.5 WBRU thrive, as they cater to this "Alternative" scene. All the people who were originally the "grunge" people now get mad because even WHITER and RICHER kids are cramping their style. So they transition to bands that would later be called emo....

BUT WAIT....at the same time we had all this "Alternative" stuff going on, we had a "renaissance," if you will, of good old kick-ass American rock and roll. Bands like Metallica and Rush refuse to compromise and start making "alternative" stuff....and they produce amazing albums (Roll the Bones, the Black Album, etc). PLUS bands like Aerosmith thrive...mostly because they use Alicia Silverstone in their videos. And, finally, Guns and Roses are so successful that they can lucratively put out a double length CD in "Use your Illusion 1 and 2" and it sells through the roof.

Such an amazing 7 or 8 years in music history....

Who says my generation knows nothing about diversity or acceptance of others

My generation rules. Yeah.