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Originally Posted by Trailer Fire
No. Just... no. Im not the biggest KC fan, but that is a downright insult to his memory.
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As for Courtney and Kurt, there's no way she killed him, total conspiracy. She may have been a crappy girlfriend, but she's no killer. Nor do I believe she could mastermind something like that anyway. Not saying she's stupid, just that it's hard to get away with murder AND being a bit of a trainwreck she probably would have spilled the beans long ago.
The guy was depressed, suicidal, and an addict. Not sure why it's so hard for people to believe. Just comes down to people can't accept it I think. Which isn't unusual, how long did people think Elvis was still alive?
As for his music, I do have a bit of a funny admission. I didn't like it for quite sometime even though I was close to the perfect age for it. I remember a bunch of my friends liking Nevermind in grade seven and just thinking, 'what a ###### this Cobain guy was. Loser whiny drug addict.' And I knew, even then, that a lot of the music they played, didn't take much musical talent. Heck a lot of those songs are the first ones they teach when you're taking guitar lessons. They're easy.
On that note, I do think that most of my classmates liked him, not because they truly understood the music, or cared about the ideas or message or whatever, but because it was rebellious and popular for that age group. And me being more of a 'goody-goody' for lack of a better term, rejected it.
When he killed himself I remember thinking, 'yeah, that makes sense' and even though I gradually got a more nuanced (and yes rebellious, but a lot of metal and industrial) look on life and music in my later teens, I could still never accept Nirvana for what they were and the impact they had, even kinda looking down on them and the people who had this cult like worship of them .
Finally in my early adult years I gave them another listen and started to enjoy them. I still knew it wasn't the most complicated music in the world, in fact, most of it was damn simple, but I could feel the emotion and musings for what they were. I could respect how different it was from what came before (by before I mean the pop and hair rock of the 80's, as grunge didn't begin with Nirvana, far from it, but they did popularize it), even if it was simple. Sometimes the simplest solutions make the most sense. Knowing more about rock and music in general, I was able to admit just how important they were as a band. And I begin to really like them.
They won't ever crack into my favorite bands, but my opinion on them has taken quite the 180 from when I first listened to them, which is a funny thing to look back on and admit. It's one of those situations where people go, 'oh I wish I was there for that,' and I actually was, but I rejected it.
