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POP CULTURE

Grunge only comes around during an economic downturn. Large teams of unemployed young people start wearing torn up clothes, sloppy hair, and an anti-consumerism attitude. Curt Cobain was the anti-Guns and Roses just as The Clash were the anti-Pink Floyd. Although grunge is always present, it cannot be sustained on a large scale once economic prosperity takes hold. Stagflation punks were defeated by the Regan/Volcker boom. Seattle's band battalion was defeated in silicon valley by the tech boom. Luckily the post 911 slump lasted only two quarters and spawned only a short lived Ozborns rebirth and Ashley Simpson (In her original punk incarnation pushing Kelly out of the picture). Watching Linklater's Slackers is downright painful. I'll take Paris Hilton to London Calling any day - the economic prosperity that is.