It was the anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death the other day, which lead to hundreds of teenagers flipping out over how great he was. I have no idea what the hype is; I never liked Nirvana and always thought Cobain was kinda twat. Going as far as to google, “why do people like Kurt Cobain”, it still blows my mind. I mean, all you really know to determine the fact that he was a moron was that he stated stated that the Sex Pistols were “one million times more important than the Clash” in a journal entry and at one point spent up to $100 a day on heroin. Woo winner, your idol is so great. Twelve year old girls in Nirvana shirts from Forever 21 and glorifying a junkie is stupid pop culture that’s decades too late and worse than Justin Bieber.
He was also as bad as a woman. “Cobain would sometimes get moody and sit in a corner for 45 minutes without saying a word.” He’s moody and wrote awful music, with nonsense lyrics and a god complex. Even Gene Simmons said, “What, just ’cause you died that makes you an icon? No, no.” This is incredibly relevant. The man is glorified when in reality, he was an asshole addict who killed himself and was shot into stardom. I understand Nirvana “defined grunge” for some people, but no actually, they didn’t. They just made it mainstream. It’s not even proper grunge. Everyone claims they paved the way for it, and people give him credit for all of the music that came out of Seattle, when most of it sounded nothing like Nirvana.
We can all get over this dead guy and move on. He is and was nothing special, and it’s time to realize that.
