what kind of music were guys who were making nü metal in the late 90s making in the 50s. or did this kind of guy simply not exist yet.

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In a way, Buddy Holly and Elvis were those guys. “Dangerous” at the time, they’d keep their fan bases but become corny compared to when The Beatles came onto the scene and the 60’s started to swing.

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nah but nu metal was never dangerous. it was always mall rock.

nu metal occupies a different space though, almost universally reviled by critics and artists outside the genre. a legacy worse than hair metal or disco. elvis may have been corny by the 60s but John Lennon desperately wanted to be him.

Insert whatever word works for “different” or outside the expected. Also inauthentically appropriating something for mass appeal. Not literally “dangerous” just aiming for radically outside the norm for a moment.