It's nice to have a retrospective article like this that kinda post-mortems what happened in pop culture way back then. The article focuses on hip hop but pop

It's nice to have a retrospective article like this that kinda post-mortems what happened in pop culture way back then. The article focuses on hip hop but pop music was swinging towards the grunge era at this time, and there was a focus on authenticity (the article mentions the milli vanilli fiasco). With In Living Color and Arsenio Hall both calling him fake, he was fucking doomed