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We Appreciate Your Enthusiasm: The Oral History of Q101 (onetime Chicago “alternative” powerhouse) was unexpectedly interesting in this department—you can track almost moment by moment as the ‘90s went on how station consultants & management took a deep breath & said, “we gotta get more rapist.”
Robin JamesThis is the British (read: more polite) version of the American alt-right’s love for corporate grunge (Creed, Limp Bizkit) There was a systemic and industry wide selling of 90s alternative to men and thus butching it up as much as possible by leaning into misogyny, anti-PC backlash etc etc