e Madonna and Michael Jackson" their fans had "never had a dangerous rock-and-roll hero to call their own"("The Poet") 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' soon became heralded as the slackers theme song. Though Kurt's idea for the song came from one of his friends. One night while drinking his friend had told him that he smelled like Teen Spirit. Kurt having never heard of the deodorant Teen Spirit had thought she meant he could inspire a generation, which is what he went on to do. After that major label record companies began a bidding war over Nirvana before they finally signed with DGC. "For major record labels, the gold rush [was] on" "Northwest bands were getting signed at the rate of one a week"("Grunge City").Bands began moving to Seattle in hopes of getting noticed now that all the major labels started scouting there. In the words of the Supersucker's lead singer Eddie Spaghetti grunge and punk bands had become "like a construction worker looking for a union" as they all began moving were there was a chance at work("Grunge City"). "Seattle act's, [owed] much of [their] success to Cobain's groundbreaking trio" ("Degrees"). At this point corporate America was going grunge crazy. It took every opportunity it could to make money off of the grunge look and sound. Fashion designers put grunge on the runway for their fall lineups, and "Grunge" clothes became hot items in stores. In an interview with MTV Courtney Love of the band Hole said "I have had the sweater for 7 years and now that it's on the runway you are gonna sell it for $1000?" People were buying ripped designer jeans for upwards of a hundred dollars(Hype!). Everyone started trading in their spandex for ripped jeans and flannel shirts. Everyone went crazy searching for the next Nirvana. Record labels like Warner Bros. were yelling "get us the next Nirvana" in hopes of being the next label to make millions off the grunge phenomenon("Searching"). Everyone wanted to find the next big ...
