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my, how times have changed. >> i see hustling, i see killing. that's what i rap about. >> it's a tough time to grow up in, and nirvana and kurt cobain in particular reflect that angst. >> i learned how to write for myself, and it's pretty ironic that most people relate to it. >> that is a platinum record. >> country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. >> the honeymoon is over. now we're getting down to real commerce. >> aren't these girls just crazy? >> yeah, they are. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪

>> ♪ >> ♪ >> you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china , occasionally her teeth, and hypnotizes your children. but what you may want to note 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 hairbands. you've got poison, rat, warrants. >> ♪

>> a lot of hairspray going on. there was a lot of sexually suggestive lyrics. it's not really deep music, but we have mtv pushing it, so that's selling. >> when i would turn on npv, all the rock bands look 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, i a lot of records and tapes and cds. and they by the most of what they see the most. recently, two members of the heavy-metal matt arrowsmith dropped by mtv's offices to screen their new video, and brought a big bag of cash as an incentive. >> the record companies would submit videos every monday, and then we would have our music meeting, and we would look at all the videos and decide who is going to get put into the new rotation. i was a 21-year-old kid loved punk rock, and i pretty quickly realized that the music that they were playing just wasn't what i was into. when that new near montevideo

was delivered to npv, 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 meetings. >> tonight's well-prepared video is from the seattle band near ronna. 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 sounded like a threat, you know? it sounded like a different generation coming in and saying, you know, what you have for us? what are you going to do for us?

>> ♪ >> the so-called, you know, slackers of 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 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" curbing in particular reflect that angst. >> kurt cobain was a great songwriter with his 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 in the holes in the knees, and you better run to those clubs to buy out the next one. >> i would go to the clubs and see bands like 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 visit stories these days is a so-called rain city renaissance, with the emergence of noisy punk metal grunge rock. van slyke nirvana, allison change, and pearl jam from seattle, washington. >> why don't you tell me what the biggest music conception 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. >> with all the attention, no one's ever asked us that before. we've never heard that question. >> so tell me about the seattle sound. what's going on up there? >> what's in the water? >> ♪

>> van slyke 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. >> 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. it's a multi-axe 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 die. >> lollapalooza is cool. >> ♪ >> the idea that you could get these important and popular bands from the underground, like jane's addiction, nine inch nails, soundgarden, hole, red hot chili peppers, and you get them altogether. it felt like a really new idea. >> by the mid-'90s, it's already been parodied by the simpsons. >> wow, it's like woodstock, only with advertisements everywhere and tons of security guards. >> it is in the american lexicon. >> the commercial culture has co-opted the counterculture but >> the honeymoon is over. now we're getting down to real commerce, and there's, 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 have, i can play 200,000 city hall instead of 2000 city halls, and i can be on mtv thousand times a week whether the 100 munch. i thought maybe when i reach these goals, i would find some sort of peace. i didn't. now it's like, i'm more miserable now than i ever was. >> tomorrow, on the whole story. >> the food networks bobby flay on the state of post-pandemic dining. >> it's almost impossible to make a profit of the business. you feel that way? >> as covid change the restaurant industry forever. >> we transformed the entire restaurant into a bodega within 24 hours. >> people across the country have reached out, like, what are you doing? how did you do that? >> i have worked so hard, pivoting all the time. >> double story with anderson cooper, tomorrow at 8:00 on cnn. there there ♪ so researchers can identify which areas are at risk. and help life underwater flourish.

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>> walmart is refusing to sell nirvana's new 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" . i don't think kurt was too happy about that. he always had that conflict between wanting to maintain that kind of punk authenticity, but also wanting to be popular. >> ♪ >> the star making machine had sucked nirvana up into its evil guts. and now, they had to deal with it but >> we decided to lay low, and obviously, that was, you know, some would say it's because kurtz on heroin the whole time. it was just, 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 of the unplugged performance, and

it was a serious artistic statement. kurt didn't play the hits, you know? those songs were chosen for a particular reason for it >> ♪ >> i remember watching him play a cover of a leadbelly 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, just so worried about him. >> ♪ >> in that era, there was always speculation, you know, kurt is not doing well, kurt has drug problems. and nirvana unplugged was just kind of, like , the clouds parted, you know? and it seemed like everything was going to be okay. >> ♪ >> 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, and i just, i was there for, like, 20 minutes, 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, you know, 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 turned to music for solace in your life, to then see your hero kill himself, it was devastating. it's 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 britpop thing, it was, like, the hangover of grunge. oh my god, my heads pounding, this has been on s.a.n.e. let's start on oasis. >> ♪ >> they were the opposite, 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. it's as simple as that. and it's that simple. >> they've got know, kind of, no false modesty. >> we're brilliant, and, i mean, it's like, anybody who's got the balls to do that is good in my book. >> ♪ >> creep came out in the early '90s, and that was as much of an old rock hit at any of the nirvana songs or the pearl jam

songs. but it was hardly extraordinary. >> inevitably, you know, the first song that becomes a hit, everybody caricatures the band from that. we just have to wait to see whether we have the chance to prove that we're not just that. >> okay. >> ♪ >> i remember vividly sitting to radiohead's next record, the bands nonstop that were just seriously geek out on every part . the baseline, like, percussion, every tiny little nuance. >> ♪ >> this week, the band released a new album, okay computer, and has critics tripping 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. >> ♪ >> you could tell the whole

story, the evolution of what came out of grunge through radiohead, and what came out of alternative through back. >> ♪ >> that was always interesting, hip-hop, sort of nonlinear word connections. >> ♪ >> 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 groll created the foo fighters. >> this is the first time in my life i've ever fronted a band and actually stand up and sing and, you know, seemed charismatic, whatever. which i can't do. but i need to just keep playing

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>> 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 like about rock shows. >> as the acts became maybe less twangy in their way, that really just expanded their audience. artists like -- plenty of acts really worked their way up and 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. >> you got kids, you got 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 mcintyre, martina mcbride, shelley 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. >> ♪ >> in all fields in our society now, women, i wouldn't say dominating. i think that they're just rising to their true place. >> ♪ >> as things more on, it became

a great decade to be a girl. >> ♪ >> after years of singing backup for such stars as michael jackson and rod stewart, he exploded onto the music scene in 1993 with their album tuesday night music club. >> ♪ >> radio has been so long and coming playing female artists. so it's definitely a different sort of environment and attitude, you know? >> female artists like sheryl crow or liz fehr, even though they had success, they were still 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 respected or taken seriously. >> ♪ >> there was such a strange dichotomy to gwen stephani. super girly, and also kind of

tough. and then 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. you know, it was like the middle finger up to every guy that ever annoyed you. >> look who's here. alaniz. >> hi, we ran into each other. >> we're shopping today. we thought you'd tickets with us. alaniz is here with a brand-new album. a brand-new look, i've noticed. >> i was dropped from ansi 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, and nailed on the head what was truly going on for me. >> ♪ >> it was sort of a pearl clutching moment. what did she say? women can say that? and, yeah, they could. she was thinking about a relationship that obviously

gone wrong, but it was not as nice, like, oh my god, you let me and now i'm sad. this would rage at this man. you didn't hear that a lot from women. >> ♪ >> in america alone, jagged little pill sells 15 million albums. it's alanis's moment. >> 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. >> ♪ >> you know, there's that egocentric 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

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- ♪ original gangster, og ♪ ♪ original gangster ♪ - gangster rap: the angriest kind of rap music. it glorifies brutality and sex. - gangster it ♪ , >> gangster rap, the angriest kind of rap music. it glorifies brutality and sex. >> gangster transect really starts to take hold in the early '90s. people moving away from the political rap of public enemy from the '80s and much more into the sort of reality rap and street rap. >> ♪ >> the group mwa is the harshest, most in-your-face of the gangster style wrappers. one song blasts the police and the most obscene terms. >> they write the raps, right? then we hook up a good beat, and we feel that it go good with the rap, and boom, there it is, platinum records. >> nwa, at that point, is the biggest hip-hop band there is. >> first time i heard nwa, i

was like, oh, that ice guy is all right, but the rest of this is garbage. and that was pretty much the attitude, initially, was people who were part of the new york hip-hop thing. >> ♪ >> the east coast felt kind of like, well, you know, we invented hip-hop. you're not going to come in as a new kit and finally decide this is the thing. like, the east coast and the home of hip-hop,. >> ♪ >> we're going to continue to making a lot of money off of this, do you think? >> this is going to be rap music, gangster rap music, whatever. >> nwa was always too hot to hold. it had to splinter. and the first person who walks away his ice cube. >> the same reason ice cube left the group is the reason i left. you know, tired of making other people happy. it's my turn. >> ♪ >> it wasn't a real gangster,

got into coots with dr. dre and said, dray, we should start our own record 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 to dr. dre, who, right, make speeds better than anybody. this guy going to deliver a hit. >> drake without his first solo album the chronic. and, you know, not only do you get dre, but then you also get snoop dogg. >> oh boy. snoop doggy dogg and dr. dre at the door. it's crazy. they knocked the door down, baby. >> ♪ >> 70% of rap music, including gangster rap, was purchased by whites. >> going up in st. paul, minnesota, my friend that i thought that compton and south- central must the coolest places in the world. if they started this music but

>> other music is more like a very still tory, where i 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. >> that record is going to be the next motown, you know what i'm saying? the chronic album was the foundation, and we going to keep rolling on until the house is finished. >> ♪ >> the handful of gangster rap superstars are not just thinking about being mean and nasty and vicious. they're accused of living up to their lyrics. >> ♪ >> two packs a core, rap star and movie star, was arrested in new york and charged with sodomy and sexual assault. atlanta cops had arrested tupac less than a month earlier for shooting two off-duty police officers.

>> tupac was languishing in jail, waiting for his appeal, when sugar nights sleep and and basically offered to pay his bail if he signed a contract. >> ♪ >> you will see your art move to a bigger platform, and you will be paid one of these days. >> even though he was an east coast guy birth, he is now rapping on the west coast with the big label out there, death row. >> ♪ >> he 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. >> everything, it's all good in the hood but >> sean puffy combs found it bad boy, and biggest nulls was his marquee artists. they modeled their sound on

death row in a lot of ways, kind of a gangster rap for the east coast. >> ♪ >> i make music about what i know, you know what i'm saying? if i went to mcdonald's, i'd of made raps about big macs and fries. i see gambling, i see -- that's what i rap about, what's in my environment. >> ♪ >> and the winner is -- >> dig! >> i host about awards. mayhem almost broke out in that place that night. >> any artist out there want to be an artist, and what to stilley star, you don't have to worry. all in the videos, all on the records. dancing. come to death row.

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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 gangster 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, that was a watershed moment, i think, in hip-hop culture. it was kind of a death of a revolution. - these two men were two of the most successful rap artists in the industry, phenomenally wealthy. why are we-- why are we seeing this happen? - well, both biggie smalls and tupac had talked of trying to break out of that violence, but many say they were trapped in the world they created. they were forced, in a word, as they say, 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?" and i thought rap was gonna 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 gonna do?" - ♪ seems like yesterday, we used to rock the show ♪ ♪ i laced the track, you locked the flow ♪ ♪ so far from hangin' on the block for dough ♪ ♪ notorious, they got to know ♪ - "i'll be missing you" was diddy's song about big. suddenly, it's like, "oh, damn." puffy's gonna be a legitimate solo act, and enters the next phase of hip-hop. - ♪ every step i take ♪ - there's sampling, and then there's sampling. to take the "every breath you take" police sample and rap over it-- puff daddy finds a way to appeal to young listeners and their parents. - ♪ i'm comin', i'm ♪ - everybody wants to party. ain't nothing wrong with partying, right, at all. puff daddy built an empire off of it,

and it was out of vogue to be conscious anymore. - ♪ it's like the more money we come across ♪ - ♪ yeah ♪ - ♪ the more problems we see ♪ - the sound shifted and the use of samples exploded. "mo money mo problems" was a diana ross sample that an older crowd could hear and say, "well, that sounds familiar to me, so maybe this isn't all bad." - ♪ as they croak, i see myself in the pistol smoke ♪ - you get songs like coolio's "gangsta's paradise," which is, on the surface, a heavier song, but the hook is so, like, inviting and warm. - ♪ been spending most their lives ♪ ♪ living in a gangster's paradise ♪ - ♪ say what? ♪ - hip-hop had hit this point where it had become mainstream, and all the sudden, it starts appearing in other forms of music. there's this kind of rock-rap happening. - ♪ sometime, someway ♪ ♪ something kicked on the front floor ♪ - there's hip-hop that can be found in pop music. - ♪ like harrison ford, i'm getting frantic ♪ ♪ like sting, i'm tantric, like snickers ♪ ♪ guaranteed to satisfy ♪ - and there's r & b and rap mixing for new jack swing. - ♪ back to the matter, the new jack swing ♪ ♪ is the sound that can flatter ♪ ♪ any other sound around town doesn't give the ♪

♪ same type of feeling ♪ - teddy riley was the big new-jack-swing producer, and he produced everybody. - ♪ all i wanna do is zoom-a-zoom, zoom, zoom ♪ ♪ and a poom-poom ♪ - ♪ just shake your rump ♪ - he had wreckx-n-effect; he had his own group, guy; he did heavy d & the boyz... - ♪ we got our own thang ♪ - it all had this kind of rhythm that made you have to dance. - ♪ shorty, get down, good lord ♪ - new jack swing was someone that could sing with the level of stevie wonder, with the breakbeat background of public enemy. and marry those two. - ♪ baby, i can get you in my ride ♪ ♪ i like the way you work it ♪ - ♪ no diggity ♪ - "no diggity" is the masterpiece of the... [laughs] of the new jack swing era. - ♪ mm-hmm ♪ - ♪ we out, we out ♪ - hip-hop was a male-dominated music-- seriously. like, women were thought of, "oh, you're not sexy? oh, get out of here. you're not shaking ass? mm, get out of here." - ♪ i wanna take a minute or two ♪ ♪ and give much respect due ♪ ♪ to the man that's made a difference in my world ♪

- female mcs wasn't a pop cultural phenomenon, really, until salt-n-pepa. and that blew the doors off of it. - ♪ what a man, what a man, what a man ♪ ♪ what a mighty good man ♪ - ♪ he's a mighty, mighty good man ♪ - it opened up the door for people to go, "well, who else are females and rapping? oh, here's that mc lyte." - ♪ gotta get a roughneck ♪ ♪ gotta what, yo? gotta get a roughneck ♪ ♪ i need it and i want it, so i gotta get ♪ - ♪ who you calling a bitch? ♪ - ♪ here we go ♪ - "oh, who's this queen latifah girl?" and then 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. it changed the way we viewed things. - ♪ i can't stand the rain ♪ - to me, the best two female mcs to come out of the '90s are missy elliott and lauryn hill. - ♪ since you were looking for your friend ♪ ♪ the one you let hit it and never called you again ♪ - how do you see the role of women in hip-hop? is it changing? like yourself. - well, it's something that's always been there.

whether or not they got the, you know, the acknowledgement that they should've, they've always been there. and just now, maybe they'll truly be acknowledged. ♪ some girls are only about ♪ ♪ that thing, that thing ♪ ♪ 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." [cheers and applause] - with her record-breaking fifth grammy win, lauryn hill echoed what many might've been thinking. - this is crazy, because this is hip-hop music, and...you know what i mean? - she's gonna be big, big-- well, she already is a big star. i mean, you get five grammies, you are, but...and so young. - yeah, and a lot of people think she's gonna really redefine the connections among hip-hop, pop--for everybody. - ♪ hi, kids. do you like primus? ♪ - ♪ yeah, yeah ♪ - ♪ wanna see me stick ♪ ♪ nine-inch nails through each one of my eyelids? ♪ - ♪ uh-huh ♪ - when em came, we sat back like this. - ♪ try 'cid ♪ ♪ and get messed up worse than my life is ♪ - 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 i was like, "whoa." - ♪ dre said ♪ - ♪ slim shady, you a basehead ♪ - ♪ uh-uh ♪ - and dre's behind it? he's in! he's in. - he's not trying to be black. he's telling his story, portraying lower-middle-class white life, which hip-hop had not done before. and i think that's why he was so appealing to so many people. - with 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. ♪ slim shady ♪ - eminem is sort of the logical conclusion of 20-odd years of hip-hip-- and white kids listening to hip-hop, but now deciding, "we need to create our own thing." - ♪ my name is ♪ [imitates record scratch] ♪ slim shady ♪ ♪ ♪ (jim) here's some straight talk for ya-use your loved ones to save money on wireless! you could add your favorite son

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[stirring instrumental music] - it's hot news for electronica, the multifaceted techno-dance genre touted by many tastemakers as the next big musical thing. prodigy's new album, "the fat of the land," enters the billboard pop chart at number one. - ♪ breathe the pressure ♪ ♪ come play my game, i'll test ya ♪ - up until the end of the '90s, dance music was just a dj; it was a beat. and all the sudden there's a face to it. - ♪ back with another one of those block rockin' beats ♪ - the chemical brothers come up. - this is very much the recycling age.

is this music recycled? - everything is secondhand. you know, take things from different places and create something new with it. - ♪ just as long ♪ ♪ as my baby's safe from harm ♪ ♪ tonight ♪ - all this stuff is going on at the same time-- massive attack, moby... so, you're seeing what we called electronica-- which is edm, which is techno... - let go! - really starting to kind of take hold beyond dance clubs. - ♪ let your feelings lift, boy, but never your mask, boy ♪ - all these artists end up laying the seeds for what would become a pretty huge revolution in music. - ♪ around the world, around the world ♪ - everybody's talking about 'em, 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 wanna be my lover ♪ ♪ you gotta 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 is too easy ♪ ♪ but that's the way it is ♪ - whoo! - there needed to be some music to be the sorbet, and the palate-cleansing for all the intensity that was the earlier part of the '90s. - the recording industry does not need to be told that it's a teen, teen world. [fans screaming] - 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, like, in the rain, getting all wet, being all sexy, and it became a hit. - ♪ quit playing games with my heart ♪ - ♪ games with my heart ♪ - ♪ with my heart ♪ - ♪ before you tear us apart ♪ - ♪ my heart ♪ - this is where it all started, right here, in this house.

the guys coming here, doing vocal recording on a little karaoke machine that i had. - their manager lou pearlman said, "i think i need another one of these." - ♪ tearin' 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. [fans screaming] - one by one, the breathless few got their lucky autographs. most were missing school. many had mom as chaperones. - [screams] - all these people who would go on to become huge pop stars began on disney. - so many people came out of "the mickey mouse club." keri russell, justin timberlake, christina aguilera, jc chasez, ryan gosling, britney spears... - that's like the 1927 yankees, in terms of pop. [piano chords] - ♪ oh baby, baby ♪

♪ how i was supposed to know ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ that something wasn't right, here? ♪ - teenagers are the biggest consumers of music, and britney has become their queen. [together] ♪ 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 ♪ - ♪ whoa-oh, yeah ♪ - christina, you know, very tiny girl-- she's under five 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?" [cheers and applause] - ♪ come on, come on ♪ ♪ come on ♪ [cheers and applause] - the end of the '90s is a really precarious, strange time for music, because mtv stops playing music videos. they start doing this more, kind of reality television programming, which, everyone's like, "that's never gonna take off." [laughs]

- 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 gonna make, "and i don't care who likes it and who doesn't like it, "and i'm not gonna sound like anybody else. this is who i am." - ♪ something unpredictable ♪ - 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! oh, and 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 stillframes in your mind ♪

♪ hang it on a shelf, in good health and good time ♪ [fans screaming] ♪ 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, is right ♪ ♪ i hope you had the time of your life ♪ [lively strumming] we'll be doing for tv what fm did for radio. man: there are some that have accused your videos as being soft porn. we like to call them tastefully smutty. a group that's never had any problems saying how they feel, u2! -what are your dreams? -to rule the world.