I mean, you can look around and see there are a lot of vocal artists (like Eddie Vedder for instance, or Bruce Springsteen) but none of them are exactly in OUR generation, and none of them are at the forefront. There's no one out there leading the way.
However, we have to wait because no one was saying Kurt Cobain was the voice of his generation until he died.
we do have to wait and see. very true about cobain but he had heart so i think the popularity was getting him to the point of a voice for a large group of people. i just dont feel there is even someone close to it. maybe its one of those things that no magazine or fabulous music person can figure out. it must must must happen organically.
Dylan was labelled the voice of a generation. Still considered the go to guy for 60s youth movement stuff. And beyond a singer he was a poet and an instigator. Listen to "The Times They Are A'Changing" and you'll get he wasn't simply the voice of the generation, but in many was was the motivation he could never back away from that political image. Oberst is much in the same he's a folk-singer, a poet , and extremely political. He may be "indie" but he's also unbelievably sucessful he may not get so much radio play but it can also be blamed for his very vocal criticism and boycott of Clear Channel. He's led the way for a lot of questioning in the same way Dylan did. And a lot of his work has those political tones maybe blatant like in "When the President Talks to God" or maybe similar to that aforementioned Dylan song in "At the Bottom of Everything." I think he's one to watch, and what he's saying I think speaks a lot for us at least its another voice challenging our generation's image of superficiality, vapid-ness, etc proliferated
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