It's just trendy. He and his friends almost seemed to apologize for attending the event. Some chose to define the elusive genre in strictly musical terms. It's like the root of the family tree, and all of the other types, like rap and ska, are branches, and it allows all different kinds of music to be part of it. A number of fans claimed that alternative rock provides social meaning for its fans.
People can relate to stuff about bad times.
He disagreed with Sherry that the freaks are expressing themselves, claiming instead that they were only trying to attract attention. Chicago Reader Inc.