Nirvana, a god or a devil

I grew up with the songs of the Beatles because my mother is a big fan of them. As writing this, I just remember her face like a demon crawling out of hell when I shot some of her LPs with my airsoft gun. When most of my elementary school classmates were obsessed with Japanese pop idols, I listened to British heavy metal, LA metal, etc. Especially if you’re from the same generation and have the same taste in music as me, I believe you would understand how big impact the band left. It’s about Nirvana. Their influence far-reached to not only the world music scene but also the whole society or culture. Their advent is exactly destructive creation, though I personally think it was too powerful and destructive.

Anti-establishment stance to the anti-establishment icon

In the previous era of Nirvana, rock musicians were supposed to wear gorgeous stage costume, and my guitar-heros competed in speed and technique. They looked like something in a totally different world, dissident to the existing order. As entirely different from them, the members of Nirvana were dressed in rags even on stage, and didn’t seem to care about errors and off-pitches in play. Once people condemned rock ‘n’ roll as devil’s music, but it gradually became the high road of music. As time goes by, the anti-establishment attitude of rock music became an establishment, ironically. Nirvana gave a final blow to it by taking an anti-establishment stance to the anti-establishment icon. Finally, rock was dead.

Craftsmaship and product quality are our basics

To tell the truth, I was excited by the advent of Nirvana at that time, but now feel nostalgic for the good old days, pre-Nirvana era. The time when rock stars performed glamorously in the way they were expected to. Sometimes, it’s easy to create new things. All it takes is just to refuse the existing order. Contrary to common understanding, it may be more difficult to stick to the conservative and authentic way. Of course, we should abolish bad tradition immediately, by the way. In order to survive harsh market conditions, we’ve been changing and introducing all kinds of new management methods in accounting, marketing, QC, HR, etc. Such changes are necessary, but still I believe craftsmanship and product quality consist of our basics to create business confidence.

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