UTProf
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I remember that........ Hair metal was already dead though.
IDK... I think Guns N Roses, Poison, and Motley Crue kept it going past its death for everyone else. Metallica too but Metallica was at one point acid/speed metal and they have an odd sort of mainstream success at the very end of metal that they never had back in when the genre was at its peak. (And really only Poison would be a completely hair metal band but both Crue and GnR had a lot of hair metal in them lol).
Nirvana killed metal but then Kurt killed himself and rock hasn't been the same since then. It's a shame too because 'classic rock' now sells the same albums over and over and over every year and encompasses a zillion old styles from alt and prog to acid but not much new is being added. The market is there for a rock n'roll band if anyone has the talent and gumption. In fact, it's starving for new content.
When either a band, producer, or both figure out that the genre market is still there and demand is still there but there's no product but old product to sell they're going to make a fortune. People are dying for anything that fits into that very broad category.
I honestly miss the variety we had in the 90s and early 00s. Now it's hip hop or country or old stuff you've listened to a billion times before.