>>14062432Cornette is like wrestling's equivalent of a jazz guy. The Attitude Era is like classic rock, a highly commercially successful period that is overly mythologized and seen as above criticism whose biggest advocates tend to reject anything new or different in the medium. Thanks to that era being kept alive via hyper-exposure from TV docs, legacy magazines and dedicated radio stations across the country, classic rock is often a noob trap for younger people getting into music. It's a lot better than the current, surface-level top 40 stuff, and the people who made the most money off it try to reinforce its mythology as the best ever so they can profit from reissues and reunions, but it's only the tip of the iceberg as far as music is concerned.
Classic rock guys often think jazz guys are on their side against modern music, whereas the jazz guys see themselves as above rock because they know how much better popular music can really be. Cornette and the territory era is like that for wrestling. They know just how much deeper that shit can go. How much bigger the emotional heights can be.
