Is this supposed to be an ironic article? I'm younger than the author (the NYT writer, she says she was born in 1977) yet I seem to remember longer. She cites Grunge as un-ironic! She says the 1990s were relatively free of irony compared to the 2000s! Just a refresher on basic history: Grunge was meant to sound "bad"…

Is this supposed to be an ironic article? I'm younger than the author (the NYT writer, she says she was born in 1977) yet I seem to remember longer. She cites Grunge as un-ironic! She says the 1990s were relatively free of irony compared to the 2000s! Just a refresher on basic history: Grunge was meant to sound "bad"…