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Article: The cost of losing Bill
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- January 20, 2001
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It was way back in the summer of 1992 when America took Smells
Like Teen Spirit to its heart, a song which began with the words,
"load up on drugs and bring your friends, it's fun to lose and to
pretend". In some indefinable way, the song encapsulated the effect
that 12 years of Republicanism had had on America: that is to say,
apathy, hopelessness, claustrophobia and powerlessness. And when, in
the autumn of 1992, it began to leap up the US charts - past Michael
Jackson, past Guns 'n' Roses and finally - spectacularly - ahead of
Garth Brooks himself, many a wary onlooker had a wild surge of the
opposite feelings.
"Maybe," I recall thinking as I watched Nirvana ascend the
charts, "just ...