They wouldn't get any style of house music, with it not having an attitude as such.
Misery was the idea of grunge. I remember being at school during the height of the grunge years, everyone's coolness was directly proportional to how depressed and troubled they appeared to be and how much they listened to grunge. I recently rediscovered The Smashing Pumpkins...
Intoxicated; with the madness,
I'm in love with; my sadness.
Bullsh!t fakers; enchanted kingdoms;
Fashion victims pull their charcoal teeth.
I never let on,
That i was on a sinking ship,
I never let on that i was down.
Cracking stuff!