Your reading comprehension is the problem here, not what they said.
The context of the comment was that rock was something people hadn’t experienced before, and that those perceptions changed with more exposure to the genre.
When they first heard Nirvana, their opinion was that it was hard rock, because it was the hardest rock they had heard by that point.
It’s a subjective recounting of their opinion when hearing something new, not an objective classification of Nirvana as hard rock.
Yes, they are. Me thinking something in the early 90s and it being objectively so at the time are not the same thing. I’ve already let 90s me know that you think my opinion was wrong.
I’m sure there was harder rock in existence. My point wasn’t they were objectively the hardest. It was that our perception of music changes over time.
I remember listening to Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit when out came out thinking this was the roughest rock could ever go.
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Those were your exact words…
Your reading comprehension is the problem here, not what they said.
The context of the comment was that rock was something people hadn’t experienced before, and that those perceptions changed with more exposure to the genre.
When they first heard Nirvana, their opinion was that it was hard rock, because it was the hardest rock they had heard by that point.
It’s a subjective recounting of their opinion when hearing something new, not an objective classification of Nirvana as hard rock.
Yes, they are. Me thinking something in the early 90s and it being objectively so at the time are not the same thing. I’ve already let 90s me know that you think my opinion was wrong.