If “Almost Famous” is a movie about falling in love with rock and roll, about crossing the country from San Diego to New York, in a colorful bus filled up with music, “Singles” is a movie about playing the game of love. With rock’n'roll. Lots of rock, in that glorious period called the Grunge Era. About growing up. About not needing to get out from Seattle to find out what you need in life, because everything was there.

We all fell in love with Russell Hammond as the rock star of Stillwater, but, aren’t we still also secretly in love with Chris Cornell, with Eddie Vedder, with all the ones who had cameos in “Singles” and made this movie the living icon of grunge? Falling in love with Seattle, from bar to bar, in the coldness of the streets, not being able to hear anything after that club where the music was so loud and the beats so dark. Falling in love with the girl who’s watching that Alice in Chains show. Falling in love with that 23 year-old red haired waitress who doesn’t know what to do with her life. Falling in love with the cool Citizen Dick singer, who struggles for a good critic.

Every generation has an icon, and if you think that there is not only there a representative soundtrack in this movie, but also songs that were born from Citizen Dick, such as Soundgarden’s “Spoonman”, we understand that this movie was an early statement of what was happening in our teen spirits. And for some of us, what’s still happening, not in Seattle, not with grunge music anymore, but in our rock ‘n’ roll hearts, that are still playing, struggling, and loving.