Hype!
Hype! is a 1996 documentary by US director Doug Prayabout the rise and commercialization of grunge music.
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Based on interviews with many rock bands from the greater Seattle area ( 7 Year Bitch , The Melvins , Mudhoney , Pearl Jam , Screaming Trees , Soundgarden , Tad and many more) it is described how the region around Washington was regarded as a musical hinterland in the 1980s. In the absence of large music companies, an independent scene with a strong DIY ethic developed, the only public distribution channel of which was the small music label Sub Pop . The sub-pop compendium published in 1986 became a milestoneDeep Six highlighted, in which " deliberately dirty, dingy rock music from Seattle" was advertised. This contributed to the first establishment of grunge music, until the sub-pop band Nirvana became world starswith their albums Bleach and Nevermind in 1989. The grunge scene is rapidly being commercialized, which is criticized by many artists, until at the height of the grunge hype, Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain kills himself. The film ends with how the interviewed bands experienced this tragedy and finally (quite jokingly) describe their future.
The film contains clips from the very first live performance of Nirvana's grungehit Smells Like Teen Spirit .
Reviews
moviepilot.de called hype! as "humorous and informative".
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- ↑ hype! - The film , moviepilot.de
Web links
- Hype! in the Internet Movie Database (English)