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.

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.

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.

Mike Patton said as much about inventing rap rock and regretting it immediately after… and has hated Red Hot Chili Peppers ever since for basically biting it off him (and for being junkies)

I’m just spitballing here but I think the original train of thought still holds but needs refinement. I think the white dudes appropriating rock n roll in the 50’s are as close as we might get since rap rock nu metal guys were doing the same with authentic rap and metal acts.