see? this is the brilliance of the show. i say always keep them running. all the time running, run. run. run, yasmine, run like the wind. imagine what it was like back when the rolling stones would shock parents everywhere. my, how times have changed. >> i see hustling, killing. that's what i rap about. >> you can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of me, though. >> and kurt cobain in particular, the angst. >> and country music has taken over the air waves and record charts. >> the honeymoon over. now we're getting down to real commerce. >> aren't these girls just crazy? >> yeah, they are.

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occasionally your teeth and hypnotizes your children. you may want to know mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. ♪ just know >> mtv makes the hits. as if there were just one national radio station for new songs. >> ending the '80s, rock music, hair bands. you've got poison rat. ♪ she's my cherry pie cool drink of water, such a sweet surprise ♪ tastes so good make a grown man cry, sweet cherry pie ♪ >> a lot of hair spray, not particularly deep music but mtv pushing it, best selling. >> when i'd turn on mtv, all the rock bands looked a certain way, played a certainly music, expected to have a certain

facade. >> those who watch, mostly teenagers and young adults buy a lot of records, tapes and cds and buy the most of what they see the most. >> recently, two members of the heavy metal band aerosmith dropped by mtvs offices to screen a new video and brought a big bag of cash as an incentive. >> the record companies would submit videos every monday have a meeting and look at the videos and decide who would get put into the new rotation. i was a 21-year-old kid that loved punk rock and quickly realized that the music they were playing just wasn't what i was into. when the new nirvana video was delivered to mtv i was completely blown away. i said, listen, they really are incredible and we need to give them a shot, and if it doesn't work, then you can push me out of the music meeting. >> tonight's world premiere video from the seattle band nirvana. smells like teen spirit. ♪

>> it was like the musical kennedy assassination of our time. everybody who was alive then can tell you the moment they heard that song. because nothing like that existed to that point. it was really transcendent. ♪ it's contagious here we are now, entertainers ♪ >> here we are now, entertainers. sounded like a threat. it sounded like a different generation coming in and saying what do you have for us? what are you going to do for us? >> the so-called slackers, generation x, not being paid attention to, and this pressure was building up. especially in the music industry. for something that actually spoke to them. >> this is the first american generation that will make less than their parents will. it's a tough time to grow up in, and i think the band and kirk cobain in particular reflect that angst. ♪ yeah, yeah >> kurt cobain was a great

songwriter with an ability to scream almost in tune. it just gave an intensity that was really unique. ♪ >> nirvana gave the record industry a wake-up call and said, here is your new audience. so start looking for the people with the clothes with the holes in the knees and you better run to those clubs to buy up the next one. >> i would go to the clubs and see bands like cat butt and bands like screaming trees. it was such a refreshing change from competitive sort of l.a. hollywood '80s, and suddenly so cool to be from seattle. >> one of the biggest biz stories these days a so-called rain city renaissance with emergens of noisy grunge rock. like sound garden, also in chains and pearl jam from seattle, washington. ♪

>> why don't you tell me what the biggest misconception about the so-called seattle music scene is? >> everybody's a grunge band. >> all of these bands sound different from each other were lofted up to the main stream as this is what grunge is. >> tell me a little about the seattle music scene. >> with all the attention, no one's ever asked us that before. >> never heard that question. >> so tell me about the seattle sound. what's going on up there? >> ah -- what's in the water? ♪ i got a little story for you >> bands like nirvana, pearl jam, they wanted no part of the music industry machine, and yet there they were, on mtv, on the charts, selling millions of records. ♪ hey ah, i ♪

>> it's a little overwhelming to see this many people. [ laughter ] we're used to playing small clubs. you know? and we want to go back to playing small clubs. ♪ >> primitive rock tour kicked off in phoenix, arizona thursday night. a multiact package called the lollapalooza tour. ♪ ♪ all your crossroads >> 1991, we were the first band onstage at the first-ever loll lollapalooza. which was a tremendous thing for my band and i. >> lollapalooza is cool. >> the idea you can get these important and popular bands from the underground, james addiction, nine inch nail, soundgarden, red hot chili peppers and get them all

together. it felt like a really new idea. >> by the mid-90s it's already parodied by "the simpsons." >> oh. like woodstock only with advertisements everywhere and tons of security guards. >> it is in the american lexicon. >> the commercial culture co-opted the counterculture. >> the honeymoon's over. now down to real commerce and, and there's a certain kind of disillusionment going on. >> since i got everything i wanted i could put a zero after the number of record sales i've had. play 200 instead of 2,000 and be on mtv 1,000 times rather than one time a month. i thought maybe when i reached all these goals i'd find some sort of peace, and i didn't. i'm more miserable now than i ever was. really?

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♪ welcome to the weekend rock. it was week lit up in a large way by the release of "in utero," a much anticipated third album by nirvana. >> walmart is refusing to sell nirvana's new release including a song called "rape me." the chain wants to be sensitive to its customers moral standards. >> to get into walmart they had to change the title from "rape me" to waif me." kurt wanted to maintain punk authenticity and also wanted to be popular. ♪ rape me

>> the star-making machine had sucked nirvana up into its evil guts, and now they had to deal with it. >> we decided to lay low and obviously that was -- you know, someone would say, oh, because kurt's on heroin the whole time. it was just like -- it's been really damaging to us. tell you the truth. it's really affected my personal life a lot. [ applause ] >> i was in the front row of the unplugged performance, and it was a serious artistic statement. kurt didn't play the hits. those songs were chosen for a particular reason. ♪ my girl, my girl don't lie ♪ to me ♪ tell me when did you sleep last night ♪ >> i remember watching him play the cover of "a lead belly song" "where did you sleep last

night?" it was emotional for me because i love nirvana and i felt a connection to kurt cobain and even when i was young i was so worried about him. ♪ my girl, my girl >> in that era, the speculation of kurt's not doing well. kurt has drug problems. and nirvana unplugged was this kind of thing, like, the clouds parted. you know? seemed like everything was going to be okay. ♪ night through [ cheers and applause ] >> from seattle tonight, word of an untimely death. >> the lead singer of nirvana shot and killed himself at his home in seattle, washington, today. >> it didn't come as a major surprise, but it was -- devastating, because of the way it happened. >> i pulled over and i was there like 20 minutes, half an hour just crying right there. >> i just don't understand it. that's all. >> i think he was the closest

that his generation came to a john lenin. >> yes. >> in that he was writing very much from the heart, directly, and he didn't play according to the rules. >> i was 16 when that happened. and if you turned to music for solace in your life, to then see your hero kill himself, it was devastating. it certainly sucked the air out of alternative rock. you know, the best band be fell apart after only making a couple records. you know? what do you do after that? ♪ >> oasis, it was the hangover of grunge. my head's pounding. insane. let's turn on oasis. ♪ >> the opposite of nirvana, because they wanted fame. you know?

no matter how big they were they wanted to be bigger. >> we know we're the best band in the country. simple as that. it's that simple. >> the thing about oasis in a way they have no kind of, no false modesty. >> how can anybody go we're the -- it's like -- anybody's who's got the balls to do that is good in my book. ♪ >> "creep" came out in the early '90s. that was as much of an alt rock hit as any of the nirvana or pearl jam songs but hardly extraordinary. >> inevitably, the first song that become as hit everybody characterizes the band from that. we have to wait and see whether we have a chance to prove we're not just that. >> okay. ♪ >> i remember vividly listening to radio head's next record, "the bends" nonstop and seriously geek out on every part, the bass line, percussion, every tiny little nuance. ♪

♪ don't leave me dry >> this week releasing a new album, "okay computer," and has critics chirping with praise, too. ♪ >> "okay computer" is like "dark side of the moon" of the '90s. showed this is going to be the defining band of the next 25 years. >> you could tell the whole story of the evolution of what came out of grunge through radio head, and what came out of alternative through beck. ♪ in the time of chimpanzees i was a monkey ♪ >> i was always interested in hip-hop. non-linear word connections. ♪ i'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me ♪ >> beck is defining what's

happening now with that mesh of styles. mixing electronic, country, rap, rock 'n' roll everything. everything. throwing the kitchen sink in. ♪ >> out of the ashes of nirvana dave created the foo fighters. >> this is the first time in my life i ever fronted a band, i stood up and seemed charismatic, which i can't do. but i need to just keep playing and making music. ♪ looking to the sky to save me ♪ looking for a sign ♪ looking for something to help me turn out right ♪ >> in an era where everything was serious, a heavy tone especially after kurt cobain's death, the foo fighters create a music video and find a perfect balance between making people laugh with also having the ability to play incredible rock

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the down home music once the preserve of cowboys and rednecks is well on its way to becoming the sound of the '90s. >> one of the things overlooked by all of this rock 'n' roll

explosion going on was country music. these acts were putting out good music, touring constantly around the country, and building up a fan base. ♪ blame it all on my roots i showed up in boots and ruined your black-tie affair ♪ >> when they asked people their favorite singer, number one in the nation was garth brooks. are you surprised by that? >> yes, sir. i guess my family knew they would be asking the questions and got there to answer before i did. ♪ where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away ♪ >> living in mississippi, country was a huge part of my life, and it was all because of garth brooks. the first time i ever saw him in concert, i was probably 10 or 11 years old. ♪ to the oasis >> i said that is exactly what i want to do. >> the biggest and fastest selling musical artist ever. >> he's been described as a cross between john wayne and

mick jagger. the looks of a cowboy and moves of a rock 'n' roll star. >> it sounded like rock n' roll, guitars and big guns. and that's what people liked about rock shows, everybody singing along. >> the acts became less twangy that expanded their audience. artists like george strait or brooks & dunn, plenty of acts worked their way up and became massive. >> over the last two years country music has taken over the airwaves and record charts with over $2 billion in sales and climbing. >> as the boom in the music takes hold, western wear dealers can't keep up with demand. >> you have kids, a house payment and these people are more like you are than madonna is. ♪ is there life out there so much he hasn't done ♪ >> women in country was huge thing in the '90s. reba mcentire, martina mcbride, the dixie chicks, shania twain.

♪ let's go girls >> i remember when shania twain came out. i was very attracted to her but found out i just wanted to be her best friend. ♪ prerogative to have a little fun and, oh, oh, oh ♪ totally crazy ♪ >> in all fields in our society now women, i wouldn't say dominating. i think that they're just rising to their true place. ♪ i feel like a woman [ cheers ] >> as things wore on it became a great decade to be a girl. ♪ >> after years of singing backup for such stars as michael jackson and rod stewart, she exploded on to the music scene in 1993 with her album "tuesday night music club." ♪ all i want to do is have some fun i got a feeling i'm not the only one ♪ >> radio has been so long in

coming playing female artists. so it's definitely a different sort of environment and attitude now. ♪ if it makes you happy >> artists like sheryl crow, liz fair, had success but routine marginalized within every aspect of the industry. >> there was not a lot of space in pop culture for a young woman's thoughts, feelings, voices, respected or taken seriously. ♪ i'm just a girl >> such a strange dichotomy to gwen stefani, kind of tough and front of a band of all guys. ♪ that you let me be >> i'm just a girl in the world and that's all that you'll let me be. like the middle finger up to every guy that ever annoyed you. >> look who's here. alanis. >> ran in together. >> shopping, thought we'd take you with us. alanis has a brand new album, brand new look i noticed.

>> i was dropped from mc records after having made music through my teens and my personal promise i wouldn't stop until i wrote a record that really every exemplified and nailed on the head what was truly going on for me. ♪ is she perverted like me would she go down with you in a theater ♪ >> like what did she say? women could say that? and, yeah, they could. singing about a relationship that had obviously gone wrong but it wasn't a nice, oh, my god, you let me and now i'm sad. this was rage at this man. you didn't hear that a lot from women. ♪ to remind you of the mess you left me in when you went away ♪ it's not fair ♪ >> in america alone, jagged little pill sells 50 million albums. it's alanis' moment. ♪ yeah, yeah, yeah, you oughta know ♪

>> over the last four years just learned how to write for my own reasons and write for myself and ironic the moment i started doing that was the moment most people related to it. ♪ an old man turned 98 >> you know, that egocentric tendency on my part and perhaps everyone's part to think you're alone in your pain. i quickly realized i was not alone and that millions of other people were feeling along with me. people were tired of sublimating, being inauthentic about their real experience and conforming. there was a door that busted open, and i was on the crust of the wave. ♪ it's like rain like a wedding day ♪ it's a free ride ♪ >> "ironic" really funny. what she was talking about wasn't ironic at all but she was one of the big stars of the '90s.

there's lots of other women making music, too. let's celebrate all of it. >> the latest trend in rock 'n' roll. women. last night some of the top female artists took the stage to launch lillith fair, a series of summer concerts rocking the world and shatters misconceptions. >> a lot of the summer festivals are male dominated and i thought it wasn't representational of all the music out there. this is sort of a way to even the scales a little bit. ♪ i went to the doctor i went to the mountains ♪ i looked to the children ♪ i drank from the fountain ♪ there's more than one answer to these questions ♪ >> lillith fair was incredibly powerful. our brains, our creativity, our ambition mattered. it validated a lot. ♪ i'm the one yeah ♪ [ cheers and applause ] hey, man. oh!

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hip-hop goes. ♪ mad thinking about stomping >> you going to continue making a lot of money off this? >> as long as there's violence, it's going to be rap music, gangstarap music, whatever. >> nwa was always too hot to hold. to splinter. the first person walks away, ice cube. >> same reason ice cube left the group is reason i left. tired of making other people money. it's my turn. ♪ tonight's the night i get in some -- ♪ >> suge knight said to dr. dre, let's start our own record label. >> 6'3", 330-pound body guard, one of the most feared men in the music business. >> you go to dr. dre, makes beats better than anybody. this guy delivers a hit.

>> dre put out his first solo album "the chronic." not only do you get dre but snoop dogg. >> ooh, boy. snoop doggie dogg and dre -- they knocked the door down, baby. >> 70% of rap music including gangsta rap was purchased by whites. >> growing up in st. paul, minnesota, my friends and i thought compton and south central must be the coolest places in the world based on this music. >> other music is like a fairy tale story. we could hear somebody else's history basically and understand where they're coming from. ♪ bow wow wow yippy yi yippy yea ♪ >> making it available to everybody. a hip-hop tsunami and we didn't see it coming. >> death row records is going to be the next mow town.

chronic was the foundation. keep rolling on until the house is finished. ♪ it's the bow to the wow and snoop doggie dogg ♪ >> the handful of rap super stars are not just singing about being mean and nasty and ambitious. they're accused of living up to their lyrics. ♪ all respect to those >> tupac shakur, rap star and movie star arrested in new york and charged with sodomy and sexual assault. atlanta cops arrested tupac less than a month earlier for shooting two off-duty police officers. >> tupac was languishing in jail waiting for appeal when suge knight swooped in and basically offered to pay his bail if he signed a contract. >> death row, you will see. through a pickup and you will be -- paid one of these days. >> even though he was an east coast guy by birth, he's now rapping on the west coast with the label death row. ♪ from dre, the streets of l.a.

from oakland, the bay area and back down cali is where they put their mac down ♪ >> suge was trying to expand death row all over the country but who controlled most of the music in the east at that time? bad boy. >> freddie's here. >> oh, what up? >> what's going on? >> everything. it's all good in the hood. >> sean "puffy" combs founded badboy and biggie smalls his marquee artist, modeled their sound on death row in a lot of ways. kind of like gangsta rap for the east coast. ♪ come over tell your friends i got the chronic ♪ ♪ i love you when you call me big poppa ♪ throw your hands in the air ♪ >> i make music about what i know. know what i'm saying? if i worked in mcdonald's i'd

have made rhymes about big macs and fries. i see hustling, gambling, girls, cars. that's what i rap about. what's in my environment. >> and the winner is -- notorious big. >> b.i.g.! >> puff daddy in the house. >> i hosted that. mayhem almost broke out in that place that night. >> any of y'all want to be an artist and stay a star and don't want to worry about the producer trying to be all in the video, all on the record, dancing -- come to death row. >> suge calls puffy out. he never mentions puffy's name, but everybody knows he's talking about puffy. >> the idea of a territorial beef is now being drawn out in front of your eyes in realtime. that was hip hop's funeral. theh available pedestrian monitoring.

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rap star tupac shakur died last night after a brief life in a rough business. he was 25. >> shakur has been at the center of a battle between east and west coast rappers. >> for the second time in six months, a star in the often brutal world of gangsta rap has been gunned down. >> music industry sources on the west coast suspect that small's

death may in some way be payback for the september killing of rap star tupac shakur. >> when tupac and biggie were assassinated, a watershed moment i think in hip-hop culture. kind of the death of a revolution. >> these two men were two of the most successful rap artists in the industry. phenomenally wealthy. why are we seeing this happen? >> they talked of trying to break out of the violence but many say they were trapped in the world they created. forced to keep it real, and that's a sad commentary. >> i remember seeing news reports how violent it was, remember seeing editorials, how can we let our children listen to this when these artists are killed at an incredible rate? and i thought rap was going to end. >> at least one radio station here in los angeles which made a lot of money from gangsta rap music has stopped playing it. >> we lost two of the greatest artists in hip-hop history. that vacuum was there for a while. it was just like, okay, what are

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that made you have to dance. ♪ going to get down, good lord >> new jack swing was someone that could sing with the level of stevie wonder with the great beat background of a public enemy, and marry those two. ♪ baby i can get you with my ride i like the way you work it ♪ >> "no diggity" is the master piece of the new jack era. >> hip-hop was a male-dominated music. seriously. like, women were thought, you're not sexy -- ah. get outta here. not shaking ass. get out of here. ♪ i want to take a minute to give respect to the man that made a difference in my world ♪ >> and female artists weren't really a pop culture phenomenon really until salt 'n' pepa, and that blew the

doors off of it. ♪ what a man what a man what a mighty fine man ♪ >> opened up the door, well, who else are females rapping? oh. mc light. >> who you calling a bitch? >> oh. who's this queen latifah girl? and later on, oh, who's this missy? ♪ oh, missy try to maintain >> they were respected as artists. they didn't have to shake booty or wear a low-cut blouse. changed the way we viewed things. ♪ >> to me the best two females out of the '90s, missy elliot and lauryn hill. ♪ ah, the one hit it and called you again ♪ >> you see the role of women in hip-hop, is it changing? like yourself? >> something that's always been there. whether or not they got the, you know, the acknowledgement they should have, always been there. and just now maybe they'll truly be acknowledged. ♪ guys are only

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it's hot news for electronica, the techno dance genre touted as the next big musical thing. prodigy's new album enters the billboard pop chart at number one. ♪ >> up until the end of the '90s, dance music was just a deejay, it was a beat. then all of a sudden there's a face to it. the chemical brothers come up. >> this is very much the recycling age. is this music recycled? >> everything is second hand. you take things from different places and create something new with it. ♪ >> all of this stuff was going on at the same time. massive attack, moby, so you're seeing what we called electronica which is edm, which

is techno really started to kind of take hold beyond dance clubs. ♪ all these artists end up laying the seeds for what would become a pretty huge revolution of music. ♪ >> everybody's talking about them and they're headed to america. it started with the beatles and then the stones, well, move over, boy, and roll over beethoven, the spice girls are coming. ♪ if you want to be my lover >> there's never been a group where every person had their own personality and every fan could choose a different one that they related to. and it was brilliant. ♪ taking this too easy ♪ but that's the way it is >> there needed to be some music to be the sorbet and the palate cleansing for the intensity of the earlier part of the '90s. >> the recording industry

doesn't need to be told that it's a teen/teen world. >> there's about to be more teenagers than any other time in america's history. teenagers wanted to be entertained. they wanted to have fun. ♪ even in my heart ♪ i see ♪ you're not being true to me >> the backstreet boys made a video for quit playing games with my heart. them in the rain, getting all wet, being all sexy. and it became a hit. ♪ quit playing games with my heart ♪ ♪ with my heart >> this is where it started right here, this house. on a recording machine i had. >> their manager lou perelman said i think i need another one of these. ♪ when we are apart ♪ i feel it too >> it was overwhelming to be,

you know, 16 years old and have that many people trying to attack you. it was craziness. and it felt like a dream. >> one by one the breathless few got their lucky autographs. most were missing school. many had mom as chaperones. >> all these people who would go on to be huge pop stars began on disney. so many people came out of the mickey mouse club. keri russell, justin timberlake, christine aguilera, ryan gosling, britney spears. >> that's like the 1927 yankees in terms of pop. ♪ oh baby baby ♪ how was i supposed to know ♪ that something wasn't right here ♪ >> and britney has become their queen. ♪ not that innocent ♪ oops i did it again >> britney was the madonna

whereas christina was like the mariah. ♪ i'm a genie in a bottle >> christina, you know, very tiny girl, she's under 5 feet. when she opened her mouth, it was like this burst of like wind came through your hair. you were like, that voice is coming out of that girl? >> the end of the '90s is a really precarious strange time for music because mtv stops playing music videos and starts doing reality television programming which everyone is like, that's never going to take off. >> music would be as much or more in people's lives than it ever had been, but the economics of it would vanish. ♪ another turning point ♪ a fork stuck in the road ♪ time grabs you by the wrist ♪ directs you where to go >> the '90s represented being who you are. this is the kind of music i'm

going to make and i don't care who likes it and who doesn't like it, and i'm not going to sound like anybody else. this is who i am. >> people were starving for authenticity, they were starving for what the real experience was, the messy, chaotic, fallible experience of being human. and the '90s gave complete green light permission for that to be explored. >> you talk about this band a lot. oh, wait a minute. you can't talk about the '90s without this one and this one and this one, where there's so many monumental bands, one after another. that's the '90s. ♪ take the photographs in still frames in your mind ♪ ♪ hang it on a shelf and get up in good time ♪ ♪ for what it's worth ♪ it was worth all the while ♪ it's something unpredictable

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