grunge
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An attempt to marry grunge and hip-hop on the 2006 single Get On Your Boots was, in the words of drummer Larry Mullen Jr, "a catastrophic choice".
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
The grunge that Ms. Teitelbaum channels is a serious, heavy sound with intimations of darkness and trauma, and even in its heyday the genre was sometimes criticized for its solemn bearing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
While the idea of pretty-in-pink Elle Woods being thrown into the grunge of 90s Seattle is "cute enough on paper", in reality it feels "thin and forced", wrote the Wrap's Marah Eakin, external.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
I think country music today is not far from what was happening with rock in the ’90s, except for grunge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026
That girl was still going round from chair to chair selling beadwork, her hair curly, messy, grunge, but her face all smiles.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
No matter how much Stewart grunges herself up for the part, it would be hard not to think, hey, there's Bella from Twilight with greasy hair and torn cuticles.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 18, 2010
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