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occasionally your teeth, and hypnotizes your children. but 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 a lot of hair bands. you've got poison, rat, warrant. ♪ ♪ sweet cherry pie ♪ >> a lot of hairspray going on. a lot of sexually suggestive lyrics. it's not particularly deep music, but the mtv pushing it -- so best selling. >> well when i would turn on mtv, all the rock bands looked a certain way, they played a kind of music. they were expected to have a certain facade. >> mtv's ratings are surprisingly small, but those who do watch, mostly teenagers and young adults, 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 aerosmith dropped by mtv's offices to screen their new video and brought a big bag. cash as an incentive. >> the record companies would submit videos every monday, and then we would have our music meeting and decide who was going to get put into the new rotation. i was a 21-year-old kid who loved punk rock and realized that the music that they were playing just wasn't what i was into. when the new nirvana video was delivered to mtv, i was complete blown away. ♪ i said, listen, they really are incredible, and we need to give them a shot. and if it doesn't worwork, you push me out of the meeting. >> from the seattle band nirvana. "smells like teen spirit."

♪ >> 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 transcendant. ♪ entertain us here we are now entertain us ♪ >> here we are now, entertain us, it's like a threat. it sounded like a different generation coming in and saying, you know, what do you have for us, what are you going do for us. ♪ >> the so-called, you know, slackers, generation x, they were 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 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 kurt cobain in particular reflect that angst. ♪ >> kurt cobain was a great

songwriter with this 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 and screaming trees. it was such a refreshing change from competitive sort of l.a./hollywood '80s, and it was suddenly so cool to be from seattle. >> one of the biggest music biz stories these days is the so-called rain city renaissance with the emergence of noisy punk metal, grunge rock. like sound garden, pearl jam, from seattle, washington.

♪ >> why don't you tell me what the biggest misconception about the so-called seattle music decent is. >> everybody's a grunge band. >> all these bands that sound different from each other were being lofted up to the mainstream as this is what grunge is. >> tell me about the seattle music scene. >> with 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? ♪ ♪ i got a little story for you what you throwing ♪ >> 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. ♪

>> 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. >> the rock tour kicked off in phoenix, arizona, on thursday night. it's a multiact package called the lollapalooza tour. ♪ >> 1991, we were the first band on stage at the first ever lollapalooza which was a tremendous thing for my band and i. >> lollapalooza'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 hot chile peppers, and you get them

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

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...paid her claim... ...and we even pulled a few strings. making it easy to make things right: that's what we're made for. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. get a quote today. welcome to the week in rock. it was lit up by the release of in utero, the much anticipated third album by nirvana. >> walmart is refusing to sell nirvana's release which includes a song called "rape me." the chain says it wants to be sensitive to its customers' moral standards. >> to get into walmart, they had to change the title of the song "rape me" to "wave me." i don't think kurt was too happy about that. he had a conflict between wanting to maintain that kind of punk authenticity but also wanting to be popular.

♪ wave 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, some 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 by personal life a lot. [ applause ] >> i was in the front row of the "unplugged" performance. 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 led belly song, "where did you sleep last night." it was emotional for me because i love nirvana, and i felt this

connection to kurt cobain. even when i was young i was so worried about him. ♪ my girl ♪ that era there was the speculation of kurt's not doing well, kurt has drug problems. and nirvana unplugged was like the clouds parted, you know. and it seemed like everything was going to be okay. ♪ [ 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. >> pulled over. i just -- i was there for like 20 minutes to 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 lennon in that he was writing very much from the heart, very directly, and he 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, the verve, blur, the brew pub thing was like the hangover of grunge. my god, my head's pounding, this is insane. let's turn on oasis. ♪ and after all you're my wonder wall ♪ >> they were the opposite because they wanted fame. you know, no matter how big they were, they wanted to be bigger.

>> we know where the best band in the country is, it's as simple as that. it's that simple. >> the thing about oasis, they've got no kind of -- no false modesty. >> anybody can sort of go and -- it's like -- anybody who's got the balls to do that is good in my book. ♪ >> creep came on the early '90s, and that was as much of an alt rock hit as any of the-vir nana songs or pearl jam songs. it was hardly extraordinary. >> the first hit, everyone caricatures the band from that. we have to wait and see if we have the chance to prove that we're not just that. >> okay. ♪ >> i remember vividly listening to radio head's next record nonstop. i would seriously geek on every part, the bass line, the percussion, every tiny nuance.

♪ >> this week the band released a new album, "okay computer," that has credit ich-- critics chirpi with praise, too. ♪ >> "okay computer" is like dark side of the moon of the '90s. it really showed that this is going to be a defining band of the next 25 years. ♪ [ cheers ] >> 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. ♪ >> i was always interested in hip-hop. 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 and roll, everything, everything. he's throwing the kitchen sink in. ♪ >> out of the ashes of nirvana, dave gun crohl created the foo fighters. >> the first time i fronted a band that would stand up and sing and seem charismatic, whatever, which i can't do. but i need to just keep playing and making music. ♪ looking to the sky to save mow looking for a sign of life ♪ ♪ looking for something to help me burn out bright ♪ >> in an era where everything was serious and had a heavy tone especially after kurt cobain's death, the foo fighters found a perfect balance between making people laugh with also having

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the down home music that was once the preserve of cowboys and red necks is well on its way to becoming the sound of the '90s. >> one of the things that was overlooked while all this rock and roll explosion was going on

was country music. these acts were putting out good music, they were 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 ask people their favorite singer, number one in the nation was garth brooks. are 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. ♪ i got friends in low places 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 and roll star. >> it sounded like rock and roll. guitars and big drums and everybody singing along. that's what people liked about rock shows. >> as the acts became maybe less twangy in their way, that expanded their audience. artist like george strait or brooks and dunn, plenty of acts really worked their way up. it became massive. >> over the last two years, country music has taken over the airwaves 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. >> got kids, a house payment, and these people are more like you are than madonna is. ♪ >> women in country was a huge thing in the '90s. you had reba mcentire, martina mcbride, shelly wright, the dixie chicks, shania twain --

♪ >> i remember when shania twain came out, i was just obsessed with her. i thought it was because i was really attracted to her. but come to find out, i just wanted to be her best friend. ♪ best thing about being a woman is the prerogative to have a little fun yeah ♪ ♪ oh oh oh ♪ >> 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." a ♪ all i wanna 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. female artists like sheryl crow or liz phair, even though they had success they were routinely marginalized within every aspect of the industry. there was not a lot of space in pop culture for young women's thoughts, feelings, voices were respected or taken seriously. ♪ >> there was such a strange dichotomy to gwen stefani, super girlie but then kind of tough. then in front of this band of all guys. ♪ >> "i'm just a girl in the world," and that's all that she'll let me be. it was like the middle finger up to every guy who ever annoyed you. >> look who's here. hi. >> we ran into each other. >> we're shopping today. we thought we'd take you with us. and alanis is here with a brand-new album, brand-new look,

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

♪ [ cheers ] >> 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 the moment that most people related to it. ♪ an old man turned and he ate ♪ >> it was that ego centric tendency on my part and perhaps everyone's part to think that you're alone in your pain. i quickly realized that i was not alone, and that millions of other people were feeling along with me. people were tired of sublimating. people were tired of being inauthentic about their real experience and conforming. so i think there was this door that busted open, and i was on the crest of the wave. ♪ it's like rain on your wedding day ♪ ♪ it's a free ride though you've already paid ♪ >> "ironic" was funny because what she was talking about wasn't ironic at all. she became one of the biggest

stars of the mid '90s. you get not just alanis morissette, but there's lots of other women making music, too, and let's celebrate all of it. >> the latest trend in rock and roll -- women. last night some of the top female artists launched lilith fair. a series of summer concerts rocking the world and shattering misconceptions. >> a lot of the summer festivals are male dominated. i thought this wasn't represential. ♪ ♪ i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions ♪ >> lilith fair was incredibly powerful. our brains, our body, our creativity, our ambition mattered. it validated a lot. ♪

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where hip-hop goes. ♪ [ bleep ] >> going to continue making a lot of money off of this, do you think? >> as long as there's violence, it's going to be rap music, gangsta rap music, whatever. >> nwa was always too hot to hold. it had to splinter. and the first person that walks away is ice cube. ♪ >> the same reason ice cube left the reason is the reason i left. you know, tired of making other people money. it's my turn. ♪ >> shug knight wasn't a real gangster got into cahoots with dr. dre and said we should start our own label which became death row records. >> 6'3", 330-pound former bodyguard has become one of the most feared men in the music business. >> you get a dr. dre who probably makes peace better than anybody. this guy delivering a hit.

>> drake put out the first solo album, "the chronic." you not only get dre', you also get snoop dog. ♪ >> hoo boy, snoop doggy doing and dr. dre. knock 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 that compton and south central must be the coolest places in the world based on this music. >> the music is more like a fairytale story where now we can hear somebody else's history basically and understand where they're coming from. ♪ >> the chronic made hip-hop digestible to everybody. it was a hip-hop tsunami. and we didn't see it coming. >> death row records going to be the next motown. the "chronic" album was the

foundation. we're going to keep rolling on until the house is finished. ♪ >> the handful of rap superstars are not just singing about being mean and nasty and vicious -- ♪ -- they're accused of living up to their lyrics. ♪ tupac shakur, rap sorry to and movie star, was arrested in new york and charged with sodomy and sexual assault. atlanta cops had arrested him less than a mother earmonth ear- a month earlier for shooting two police officers. >> shuge knight swooped in and offered to pay his bail if he signed a contract. >>retha -- you will see your art on a bigger platform. >> even though he was an east coast guy by birth, he's now rapping on the west coast with the big label out there, death row.

♪ >> shuge 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. >> what -- >> what's going on? >> everything. it's all good in the hood. >> sean puffy combs founded bad boy and biggie smalls was his marquee artist. they modeled their sound on death row in a lot of ways, kind of a gangster rap for the east coast. ♪ ♪ throw your hands in the air ♪ >> i make music about what i know, you know what i'm saying? if i worked at mcdonald's, i'd of made songs about big macs and fries.

little brooklyn, you sigh hustling, i see killing, gambling, i see girls, i see cars. that's what i rap about, what's in my environment. ♪ >> and the winner is -- >> puff daddy in the house. >> i hosted that -- mayhem almost broke out in that place that night. >> anyone out there want to be an artist and want to stay a star and don't want to have to worry about the produce r tryin to be all in the videos, all on the records, dancing. come to death row. >> he 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 real time. that was hip-hop's funeral.

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♪ i had a dream that someday ♪ ♪ i would just fly, fly away ♪ rap star tupac shakur died after a brief life in a rough business. he was 25. >> shakur has been at the center of a battle between east coast and west coast rappers. >> for the second time in six months a star in the often brutal world of grabster rap has

been gun -- gangster rap has been gunned down. >> smals' death may be payback for the killing of tupac shakur. >> when tupac and biggie were assassinated, it was a watershed moment in hip-hop culture. kind of the death of a revolution. >> these two men were two of most successful rap artists, phenomenally wealthy. why are we seeing this happen? >> both biggie smalls and tupac had talked of trying to break out of the violence but many said they were trapped in the world they created. they were forced, as they say, to keep it real. that's a sad commentary. >> i remember seeing news reports of how violent it was. i remember editorials about how can we let our children listen to this when artists are being killed at an incredible rate. i thought rap was going to end. >> at least one radio station in in los angeles who has made money from gangster music has stopped playing it. >> we lost two of the greatest in hip-hop history.

that vacuum was there for a while. it was like, okay, what are we going to do. ♪ >> i'll be missing you was diddy's song about big. sudden it's like, damn, puffy's going to be legitimate solo act. and enters the next phase of hip-hop. ♪ every breath i take ♪ >> there's sampling and then there's sampling. to take the "every breath you take" and rap over it, puff daddy appeals to young listeners and their parents. ♪ >> everybody wants to party. ain't nothing wrong with partying at all. puff daddy built an empire off of it. it wasn't conscious anymore. >> the sound shifted, and the use of samples exploded. a diana ross sample that an older crowd could hear and say,

well, that sounds familiar, maybe this isn't all bad. ♪ >> you got songs like "gangsta's paradise," that's a heavier song, but the hook is inviting and warm. ♪ >> hip-hop had hit this point where it had become mainstream, and all the unsettled it starts appearing in other forms of music. there's this rough rap happening. ♪ there's hip-hop that can be found in pop music. ♪ there's r & b and rap mixing for new jack swing. ♪ >> teddy wiley was the big new producer and produced everybody. ♪ all i wanna do is zoom zoom zoom ♪ >> he had his own group, 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. ♪ >> "no diggity" is the masterpiece of the new jack swing era. >> hip-hop was a male-dominated music. seriously. like women would throw -- you're not sexy. get out of here. you're not shaking ass, get out of here. ♪ >> female emcees wasn't a pop cultural phenomenal really until salt and peppa, and that blew the doors off of it. ♪ what a man what a man what a mighty good man ♪ >> it opened up the door for people to go what else are females in rapping?

here's the emcee light. ♪ >> oh, who's this queen latifah girl? ♪ and later on, who's this missy? ♪ >> they were respected as artists. they didn't have to shake booty or wear low-cut blouse. they changed the way we viewed things. >> to me the best two female emcees to come out of the '90s are missy elliott and lauryn hill. ♪ >> i used to see the role of women in hip-hop, is it changing like yourself? >> it's something that's always been there. whether or not they got the acknowledgment that they should have, they've always been there. and just now maybe they'll truly be acknowledged. ♪ ♪ that thing ♪ >> she sings, she raps, there's

heartache involved. it's all encompassed in one amazing piece of art. >> "the miseducation of lauryn hill." >> with her record breaking fifth grammy win, lauryn hill echoed what many might have been thinking -- >> this is crazy because this is hip-hop music. you know what i mean? >> shee's going to be big -- sh already is a big star. five grammys -- >> a lot of people think she's going to redefine the connections among hip-hop, pop, for everybody. >> hi, kids. do you like -- do you want me to stick nine inch nails -- >> we sat back like this. what's this white boy doing? then i really listened -- >> i can't figure out what spice girl -- >> i was like, whoa. >> slim shady -- >> and dre's behind it? he's in. he's in. >> he's not trying to be balack. he's telling his story

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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. ♪ ♪ around the world 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 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 ♪ ♪ my heart ♪ >> this is where it started right here, this house. the guys coming here, doing vocal recording on a a.k.a. machine i had. >> their manager lou perelman said i think i need another one of these. ♪ it's tearing up my heart when i'm with you ♪ ♪ but 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 ♪ >> 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 ♪ ♪ you got to rub me the right way ♪ >> 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? ♪ come come come come on and let me out ♪ >> 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. 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. ♪ so take the photographs and still frames in your mind ♪ ♪ hang it on a shelf and get up in good time ♪ ♪ and that's still 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 ] >> thank you. video killed the radio star. now has the internet killed the record industry? >> napster is stealing from us. straight up. and i'm going to fight them to the death. >> ladies and gentlemen, the strokes! >> may i have your attention, please? >> we're ashamed of the president of the united states. >> the dixie chicks, they can say what they want to say. >> billboard's top ten all by black artists. >> rappers are the new rock stars. >> i don't please anybody with who i am as a person. >> i love beyonce. >> that's not a working telephone, is