punk/grunge act. Bands that had never gotten any notice before were being scouted like sports players. Record companies started flying to where ever a hot grunge band was playing, "one talent scout said he walked into a club, saw 20 other A&R people and left"("Searching"). The phone's of little known punk and grunge acts began ringing constantly "always some record-company guy, or maybe a lawyer or a music publisher" or any number of other people trying to cash in on the grunge sound("Searching"). Small bands that didn't even want exposure were being hounded by record labels and media. And right when the "Seattle Scene" seemed to reach a saturation point the soundtrack to the movie Singles was released, "a definitive compilation that justified all the Northern overexposure"("Seattle Sound"). In 1992 other bands began to grab some of the spotlight, Pearl Jam and Sound Graden soon became the "next big thing"("Rock's Reluctant"). Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam identified with the dysfunctional teens he played to. His songs reflected this, often commenting on how society had failed it's young("Rock's Reluctant"). One song in particular, Jeremy, focused on school shootings and dysfunctional kids. It tried to make the point that more focus was needed on problem children. It was almost a foreshadow of what happened years later at Columbine.Everyone wanted a piece of the Grunge explosion, except Seattle. The people of Seattle quickly became fed up with Grunge, to say the "G" word in Seattle got angry stares and labeled you as an out of towner(Hype). All the exposure had disrupted the quiet city and the locals were none to happy about it. The bands even turned that into their music, with bands like Mudhoney singing "Everybody loves us/Everybody loves our town/That's why I'm thinking of leaving it/Don't believe in it now.../It's so overblown"("Grunge City"). The bands knew that the whole Grunge fad was out of control and was a big joke. It didn't last...
