Man, of course someone would eventually try to reevaluate nü-metal positively, and of course in 2018 they wouldn’t even bother to claim that the music was any good, just this therapeutic crap that the audience was suffering and thus whatever bs they go for is valid

Aah, I’m sure someone was projecting serious problems onto these aggressively vague sludge-dirges, but I remember it was more “my stepdad just doesn’t understand that I’m not cut out for community college”. Meanwhile ‘80s rockers put out fun, memorable party songs about like “the only respite from my self-destructive addictions is the single human connection I finally made now that I’ve met someone else who is also escaping an abusive childhood”