Was grunge the last time rock music was in the spotlight?

What spotlight? As if. In 1992 at Anna Banana's in Honolulu we realized the bands couldn't even improvise an instrumental section, and All lyrics had to be cleared in advance - and the mics actually went dead and we had to leave the club on Saturday night at around ten PM because of a non approved set. You been hearing the music that the Pentagon wants you to hear since before that.

Indie and Britpop were the last two genres to take the music scene by storm here in the UK. Since then it's been bland and boring, with everyone sounding the same, no recognisable image or subculture to speak of.
We have boring, generic singers such as Ed Sheeran, George Ezra and Lewis Capaldi whining and warbling their way through nursery rhymes while trying to sound Irish, it hurts me ears.
It's no wonder proper bands are reforming and touring again, it might give younger people some encouragement to form proper bands again.

I think streaming has taken away a lot of the "spotlight" because you can listen to exactly what you want and not have to listen to a bunch of other stuff to get to the song you want to hear. I honestly can't remember the last time I listened to the radio.

Of course not. Since grunge, there's been post-grunge, pop punk, nu metal, emo, garage rock revival, post-punk revival, neo-psychedelia, metalcore...

Rock may have gone under some commercial stagnation in recent decades, but there's been plenty of rock movements and revivals that have come and gone well after grunge. Where've you been? lol

Everything past the 90’s sucks bawls…

I member when ppl wrote songs about winning at life, getting the girl, being successful..

Now it’s all ‘my 15 minutes of misery, woe is me,, victimhood..

I think when Ricky Martin had his hits, there was a spell.

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