>>93061
Nevermind came out in 1991.
Those Grunge years are somehow responsible for the state of radio rock today?
How is that supposed to work?
The internet didn't help radio rock at all.
Of all the radio formats, rock listeners were the best at using the internet and finding more interesting versions of rock. And they did. The rock radio listeners, around 1999, the beginning of the internet, pretty much, napster era, ipod era, found alternatives to rock radio. The top 40 listeners stayed put, but rock radio listeners left, and there was a big of a vicious cycle, they'd dumb it down to keep the base happy, that would cause the most adventurous to leaver, causing them to cater to the base more, causing more leaving. Something new and interesting is just going to have a hard time getting on active rock radio, especially, also difficulties with alternative, especially with iheart stations. And that's where a huge new band is going to have to pass through, the Active Rock and Alternative formats, and they haven't really been looking for anything new in 15 years on the Active Rock side, and on the Alternative side, there are those largely terrible word the word bands, and Imagine Dragons, that sound that iheart Alternative really seems to like. If you compare the playlists of Alternative stations, the iheart ones really are jam packed with as much Imagine Dragons as possible and every word the word. Walk the moon, young the giant, lovelytheband etc etc etc. But there are some decent bands getting play on Alternative stations that are not iheart stations, or maybe iheart plays them some but not as much as the non iheart.
I don't see at all how grunge should be blamed for this. Grunge actually had appeal to a group outside the core active rock radio listeners of today.