Sidetrack:
"It's been awhile" since I listened to this album. 😂
It's a perfect example of men doing the work, unpacking patriarchy, finding deep honesty within vulnerability, and healing their own damn wounds.
Tracks from this album were playing on repeat on rock stations for all men and boys to hear in 2001, along with similarly-themed songs by Korn, Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, and many other bands which were considered the hardest music ever made up till that point.
It wasn't in response to any women. Alanis, Jewel, Sarah McLachlan, and Dido were all doing their own work in their own scene. These men didn't need women to respond to. They LED their scene, started their own conversation, screamed and yelled about their own moms and dads and the ills of society as they saw them.
Put on this album, or one by Chevelle, or Deftones, Maynard, Disturbed, and get inspired to get up off your ass and make change.