of the show. i say always keep them running. all the time running. run. run. run, yazmeen, run like the wind. imagine what it was like when the rolling stones -- >> you can take me out of ghetto. >> it's a tough time to grow up in, and nirvana and cobain particularly -- >> i learned how to write for myself and it's ironic most people related to it. >> country music has taken over the air waves and the record charts. >> the honeymoon is over and now we're getting down to real commerce. >> aren't these girls just

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what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. mtv makes the hits. it's as if there were just one national radio station for new songs. >> ending the '80s in terms of rock music, you're getting hair bands, poison, rat, warrant. ♪ she's my cherry pie ♪ sweet cherry pie >> a lot of hair spray going on, sexually suggestive lyrics, not particularly deep music, but mtv pushing it. >> all the rock bands looked a certain way, played a kind of music, they were expected to have a certain facade. >> mtv's ratings are surprisingly small, those who do watch buy a lot of records and tapes and cds, and they buy the

most of what they see the most. recently two members of the heavy metal band aero-smith dropped by to screen their new video, brought a big bag of cash. >> the record companies would submit videos every monday and then we would have our music meeting and look at all the videos. i was a 21-year-old kid that loved punk rock and i pretty 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 premier video is 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. >> here we are now, entertain us. it's a different generation coming in, saying what do you have for us, what are you going to do for us? >> the so-called slackers, generation x, they're 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 curt cobain in particular reflect that angst. >> curt cobain was a great song

writer with this ability to scream almost in tune. it 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 clubs and see bands like cat butt and screaming trees. it was such a refreshing change from the competitive sort of l.a./hollywood '80s and it was just suddenly so cool to be from seattle. >> one of the biggest music biz stories these days is a so called city renaissance, noisy, punk metal, 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 these bands that actually sound pretty different from each other were being lofted up to the mainstream as this is what grunge is. >> tell me a little bit about the seattle music scene. >> all the attention, no one's ever asked us that before. >> never heard that question. tell me about the seattle sound, what's going on up there? >> what's in the water? ♪ have i got a little story for you ♪ ♪ what you thought was your daddy ♪ >> bands like nirvana, pearl jam, wanted no part of the music industry machine and yet there they were on mtv, on the charts selling millions of records. ♪ >> it's a little bit

overwhelming to see this many people. we're used to playing small clubs, you know, and we want to go back to playing small clubs. >> rock tour kicked off in phoenix, arizona on thursday night, a multiact package could the lol la palooza tour. >> 1991 we were the first band on stage at the first ever lollapalooza which was a tremendous thing for my band and i. >> it's cool. >> the idea that you could get these important and popular bands from the underground like jane's addiction, nine inch nails, sound garden, red h

hotchili peppers. >> by the mid-90s it's been parodied by the simpsons. >> it's like wood stock with -- tons of security guards. >> the american lexicon. >> the commercial culture co -- >> the honeymoon is over and now we're getting down to real commerce. there's a disillusionment. >> i could play 200,000 halls and i can go on mtv a through times a week rather than one time a month. i thought when i'd reached those geels i'd find peace. i didn't. i'm more miserable now than i ever was. [ upbeat music starts ] [ engine revving ] ♪

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welcome to the weekend rock, it was a week lit up in a large way by the release of in utero, the much anticipated third album by nirvana. >> walmart is refusing to sell nirvana's new release, which includes a song called "rape me." it wants to be sensitive to customers' moral standards. >> to get the wall mart, they had to change the name of the sang from "rape me" to waif me. but also wanting to be popular. >> the star making machine had such nirvana up into its evil

guts and now they had to deal with it. >> decided to lay low and obviously that was, you know, someone would say that's because kurt's on heroin the whole time. it's been really damaging to us, to tell you the truth. it's really affected my personal life a lot. >> i was in the front row with 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 a cover of a led belly song, where did you sleep last night? and it was emotional for me because i love nirvana and i felt this connection to kurt cobain and i was always, even when i was young, so worried about him. there was always 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, and it seemed like everything was going to be okay. ♪ not through >> 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 just -- i was there for like 20 minutes for half an hour just crying right there. i just don't understand it, that's all. >> he was the closest his generation came to a john len non. he was writing very much from the heart, very directly and didn't play according to the rules. >> i was 16 when that happened.

and if you turn 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 fell apart after only making a couple records. you know, what do you do after that? ♪ >> oasis, thever job ve blur. my head is pounding, this has been insane, let's turn on oasis. ♪ you're my wonder >> they were the opposite because they wanted fame. no matter how big they were they wanted to be bigger. >> we know we're the best band in the country, social security as simple as that. and it's that simple. >> oasis, no kind of -- no false

modesty. >> i admire people who can go -- anybody who's got the balls to do that is good in my book. ♪ i'm a creep >> "creep" came out in the early '90s and that was as much of an alt rock hit -- but it was hardly extraordinary. >> everybody caricatures the band from that. we have to wait and see whether we have the chance to prove that we're not just that. >> okay. >> i remember vividly listening to radiohead's next record nonscoff, i would seriously geek out on every part, the bass line, percussion, every tiny little nuance. ♪ don't leave me high don't

leave me dry ♪ >> critics chirping with praise too. >> "okay computer" is like dark side of the moon of the '90s. it really showed this is going to be a defining band over the next 25 years. >> you could tell the whole story of the evolution of what came out of grunge through radiohead and what came out of alternative through beck. ♪ there was a monkey eating my brains ♪ >> i was always interested in hip hop, this sort of nonlinear 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, he's mixing electronic, country, rap, rock 'n' roll,

everything, everything, he's throwing the kitchen sink in. ♪ >> out of the ashes of nirvana dave groel created the foo fighters. >> the first time i ever fronted a band, stand up and sing, seem 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 the shining light ♪ ♪ looking for something to help me turn out right ♪ >> in an era where everything was serious and had a heavy tone, especially after cobain's death, foo fighters found this perfect balance between making people laugh, with also have the ability to play incredible rock music.

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♪ 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. you surprised by that? >> yes, sir, i guess my family knew where they were going to be asking the questions and got there before they 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. i said that is exactly what i want to do. >> garth brooks is the biggest selling artist of the decade, and the fastest selling musical artist ever. >> he's been described as a cross between john wayne and mick jagger. he's got the looks of a cowboy and the moves of a rock 'n' roll

star. >> it sounded like rock 'n' roll, guitars and big drums, and everybody singing along. that's what people liked about rock shows. >> the acts became less twangy in their way, that expanded their audience, plenty of acts worked their way up and became massive. >> over the last two years country music has taken over the air waves and the 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 the demand. >> you've got kids, you've got a house payment, and these people are more like you are than madonna is. ♪ so much she hasn't done >> women in country was a huge thing in the '90s. wu had reba mcentire, martina mcbride, tshania twain.

>> i was just obsessed with shania twain. i just wanted to be her best friend ♪ best thing about being a woman ♪ ♪ have a little fun ♪ oh oh oh totally crazy >> in all fields in our society women, not necessarily dominating, just rising to their true place. ♪ i feel like a woman >> as things wore on it became a great decade to be a girl. ♪ i just can't stop loving you >> after years of singing backup for stars such as michael jackson and rod stuart she exploded onto the scene in 1993 with her album tuesday nightclub. ♪ all i want to do is have some fun ♪ ♪ i got a feeling i'm not the only one ♪ >> radio has been so long and coming playing female artists. so it's definitely a different sort of environment and attitude

now. >> female artists like sheryl crow or liz fair, even though they had success they were still routinely marginalized. there was not a lot of space in pop culture where young women's thoughts, voices, feelings were taken seriously ♪ i'm just a girl ♪ >> there was a strange dichotomy to gwen stefani. >> super tough, in front of this band of all guys. >> i'm just a girl in the world and that's all that you'll let me be. it was like the middle finger up to every guy that ever annoyed you. >> look who's here, alannis. >> we ran into each other. >> we're shopping today. she's here with brand new album and look, i noticed. >> i was dropped from mca records after having made music in my teens and my personal

promise to myself is i wouldn't stop until i wrote a record that really exemplified and nailed on the head what was oigoing on fo me. >> would she go down on you in a theater. >> pearl clutching, what did she say? women can say that, and yeah, they could. she was singing about a relationship that had gone wrong but it wasn't this kind of like nice oh, my god, you left me and i'm sad. this was rage at this man. you didn't hear that ♪ well i'm here to remind you of the mess you left when you went away ♪ ♪ it's not fair >> in america alone jagged little pill sells 50 million albums. it's alanis's moment ♪ you you you ought to know >> over the last four years just learned how to write for my own reasons and write for myself and it's pretty ironic that the moment i started doing that was

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>> the group mwa is harshest in your face of gang style rappers. one song blasts police in the most -- >> hook up with the beet that we feel will go good with the rap, there it is, platinum records. >> mwa is the biggest hip hop band there is at that point. >> first time i heard mwa, oh, that ice guy is all right, but the rest of this is garbage. that was the attitude of most people part of the new york hip hop ♪ step to the door >> the east coast felt kind of like we invented hip hop. you're not going to come in as a new kid and decide this the the thing, like the east coast is the home of hip hop and we're always going to have a say in where hip hop goes. ♪ thinking about stomping >> going to continue making a lot of money off of this, do you think?

>> as long as there's violence there's going to be rap music, gangster rap music or whatever. >> mwa was always too hot to hold. it had to splinter. the first person to walk away was ice cube. >> same reason ice cube left is group is the reason i left, you know, tired of making other people money. it's my time. >> tonight's the night. >> yeah. >> suge knight got into ca hoots with dr. dre and said dre we should start our own record. >> feared men in the music business. >> dr. dre, who probably makes pizza better than anybody. this guy delivering a hit. >> dray put his out first solo album, the chronic, then you also get snoop dogg.

>> oh, boy, snoop doggy dog, knocked the door down, baby. ♪ going crazy >> 70% of rap music, including gangster rap, was purchased by whites. >> growing up in st. paul, minnesota my friends and i thought that compton and south central must be the coolest places in the world based on this music. >> other music is more like a fairy tale story where now we can hear somebody else's history basically and understand where they're coming from. ♪ death row stepping into the house ♪ >> made hip hop digestible to everybody, a hip hop sue gn tsunami. we didn't see it coming. >> rolling on until the house is finished. ♪ the bow to the wow creeping and crawling ♪ >> the handful of gangster rap

superstars are not just singing about being mean and nasty and vicious. they're accused of living up to their lyrics. ♪ all respectables >> tupac shakur was arrested in new york and charged with sodomy and sexual assault. atlanta cops arrested tupac for shooting off duty officers. >> waiting in jail for his appeal when suge knight swooped in to pay his bail. >> your art to a bigger platform 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 big label out there at death row. ♪ say what you say serenade the streets of l.a. ♪ ♪ the bay area ♪ give me love

>> shug 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. >> freddy's here. >> what's going on? zb it's all good in the hood. >> biggy smalls was his 1/4 tee artist. modeled their sound on death row, gangster after the east coast. >> >>. ♪ i got the chronic ♪ through you hands in the air >> i make music about what i know, if i went to mcdonald's, i made rhymes about big macs and fries. i see gambling, cars, that's what i rap about, my

environment. >> and the winner is -- big. >> b.i.g.. >> i hosted that source awards. mayhem almost broke out in that place that night. >> anyone out there want to be an artist and want to -- won't have to worry about the producer trying to be all in the video, all on the records, dancing, call it death row. >> shug 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. what the motorcade driver drives when they're not in a motorcade? [ upbeat music starts ] [ engine revving ]

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wealthy. why are we seeing this happen? >> biggy smalls and tupac had talked of trying to break out of that violence. many say they were trapped in the world they created and they were forced to keep it real. and that's a sad commentary. >> i remember seeing news reports about how violent it was. i remember seeing editorials about how can we let our children listen to this when these artists are being killed at an incredible rate? i thought rap was going to end. >> at least one radio station here in los angeles which has made a lot of money from gangster 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 we going to do? ♪ seems like yesterday we used to rock the show ♪ ♪ so far from hanging on the -- notorious ♪ >> i'll be missing you was diddy's song about big. suddenly it's like oh, damn, puffy is the legitimate solo act and enters the next phase of hip

hop. >> there's sampling and then there's sampling, to take the every breath i take police sample and rap over it, appealing to young listeners and their parents. >> everybody wants to party. puff daddy built an empire off of it. ♪ the moment we come across the more fun we see ♪ >> the sound shifted and the use of samples exploded, more money, more problems was a diana ross sample that an older crowd could hear, well that sounds familiar to me, this isn't all bad. you got songs like gang sta's paradise on the surface a heavier song but the hook is so inviting and warm ♪ been spending most offer lives living in the gang sta's paradise ♪ >> it starts appearing in other

forms of music. this rock rap happening. there's hip hop that can be found in pop music. there's r&b mixing for swing. teddy wiley was the new jack swing producer, he produced everybody. ♪ boom boom >> he had effect, did heavy d and the boys. it all had this kind of rhythm that made you have to dance. >> new jack swing was someone that could sing with the level of stevie wonder with the break 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 digty >> it's the work piece of the -- >> it was a male dominated music. seriously. you're not sexy, get out of here. you're not shaking ass, get out of here. >> i want to take a minute or two and give much respect to the man that's made a difference in my world. >> wasn't a pop cultural phenomenon until salt and pep pa. >> what a man, what a man, what a mighty good man. >> it opened up the door for people to go, who else in females are rapping. here's that mc light. ♪ i need gotta get >> oh, who's this queen latifah girl? and then later on, who's this missy. >> oh, missy, try to maintain. >> they were respected as artists. they didn't have to shake booty or bear low cut blouse.

it changed the way we viewed things. >> to me the best two female emcees to come out of the '90s are missy elliott and lauren hill. >> you see the role of women in hip hop, is it changing, like yourself? >> something that's always been there, whether they got the acknowledgment they should have they've always been there. and just now maybe they'll truly be acknowledged ♪ guys only about that thing that thing that thing ♪ >> she sings, she raps, there's heart ache involved, it's all encompassed in one amazing piece of art. >> this miseducation of lauren hill. >> with her record breaking fifth grammy win lauren hill echoed what many might have been thinking. >> this is crazy because this is hip hop music, you know what i mean. >> she's going to be big, big --

she already is a big star. >> a lot of people think she's going to redefine the connections among hip hop for everybody. >> hi, kids, stick nine inch nails. >> when emcame, we sat back like this, what's this white boy doing? and then i really listened ♪ but i can't figure out which spice girl i want to impregnate ♪ >> and dray's behind it? he's in, he's in. >> he's not trying to be black. he's not pretending he has great urban stories, he's telling his story, betraying lower middle class white life, which hip hop had not done before. i think that's why he was appealing to so many people. >> kids in america that always had a sufficient amount of money, and a different pair of clothes to wear to school, each day of the week, those type of kids, they admire poor people that have nothing to lose. >> eminem saw the logical conclusion of 20 odd years of

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all these artists end up laying the seeds for what would become a pretty huge revolution of music. ♪ ♪ around the world >> everybody's talking about them and they're headed to america. it started with the beatles and then the stones. well, move over, boys, and roll over beethoven. the spice girls are coming. ♪ if you want to be my lover ♪ you got to get with my friends ♪ >> 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 that was the earlier part of the '90s. >> the recording industry doesn't need to be told that it's a teen/teen world. >> there were 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 ♪ with my heart >> this is where it all started, right here, in this house. the guys coming here, doing vocal recording. i had a little karaoke machine that i had. >> their manager lou pearlman said i think i need another one of these. ♪ tearing up my heart when i'm with you ♪ ♪ but when we are apart i feel it too ♪ >> it was a little 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, cristina aguilera, j.c. chasez, 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 ♪ >> teenagers are the biggest consumers of music, and britney has become their queen. ♪ i'm 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. and 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 some more kind of reality television programming which everyone's 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. then you go 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 ♪ ♪ tattoos of memories ♪ and dead skin on trial ♪ for what it's worth ♪ it was worth all the while ♪ it's something unpredictable ♪ but in the end it's right ♪ i hope you had the time of

your life ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> that's all. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church from cnn world quarters in atlanta. this is cnn newsroom. ahead this hour. a night for the history books. south korean film "parasite" breaks barriers at the oscars. we will hear from the director who took home a handful of honors. people in china are cautiously returning to work as the death toll from coronavirus tops 900. the virus is also sending a chill through the country's economy. voters in new hampshire are set to vote tuesday in the