How misguided were kids when they chose grunge over hair metal?

early 90s hair metal was garbage

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I’m one of those kids and I thank da lort for Grunge everyday!!

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I'm an old man and I prefer grunge.

Not as misguided as the OP

Jesus this is a poop take

There’s a real good oral history of hair metal - “Nothin’ But a Good Time” - that talks about how the genre killed itself with too many bad bands. Things started to dip around 1990 - that’s when ticket and record sales dipped for some of the second tier bands like Cinderella and Ratt.
Hair metal and grunge had a lot of the same influences - Kiss, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper. It’s just that the grunge bands threw a little more punk in the mix.

Social outcasts.

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There’s a real good oral history of hair metal - “Nothin’ But a Good Time” - that talks about how the genre killed itself with too many bad bands.

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Bands like Skid Row were very different than pretenders like Poison. I hate that all thse bands ended up lumped together.

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hair metal

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At the time, it had run its course and starting to become a mockery of itself.

The worst part was some really good metal/hard rock music that came out around then that got lost in the shuffle.

the drugs and lifestyle made hair metal unsustainable from bands not being able to sustain it or stay together, towards the end you were lucky to get a decent concert assuming they weren't drunk or high

the result was the advent of the grunge scene and eventually all the pot smokers from that era aged out of it, what a depressing time that music was