I'm so sick of seeing Nirvana t-shirts.
I have always respected Nirvana, I like their music, but I've never been a "huge" fan. I think their songs are good, sometimes great, but they have never "blown my mind", the music nerd in me has never been like "Oh wow how are they doing that? I must study their techniques".
I just think they're kinda grossly over rated, and that's not Nirvana's fault. I think Kurt Cobain himself would be disgusted with how the media has over hyped and milked his music and continues to regularly put them on the cover of magazines as store shelf click bate. I think Kurt would be the first to point out that they're not the greatest thing ever. Just my opinion, there are many bands, before and after them, that are far better than Nirvana. No band is super original, every band takes elements from the music that came before them. A lot of Nirvana's angsty grunge sound just seems like they ripped off some of The Flaming Lips.
Lamest of all is when all these bandwagon fans buy their Nirvana tshirts from walmart. And even more cringe is when they dress their babies and children with kid sized Nirvana tshirts, it just cheapens the music. Like what suburban 8 year old kid is going to understand what rape is or what drug addiction is? And it's lame and irresponsible if you let your kids listen to that. This goes for any band though, if you push your edgy music onto your kids, your cheapening the experience they might have when they get older and need to rebel or need something deep to dive into when they're feeling depressed.
Wearing a walmart tshirt is as poser as it gets. It basically says look at me I'm deep and I'm kinda into music, I bought the history book on music but stopped at chapter 2 and actually only read the cliff notes.
I'm sick of how humble Dave Grohl is, I think it's just an act. I never gave a shit about Foo Fighters, I wouldn't say their music is art, it's more just decent background noise for edgy department stores. Who can say if Grohl had not been in Nirvana would anyone have ever heard of Foo Fighters? I'm not gonna chant he's a sellout, I'm sure I would have probably done the same thing and taken the giant checks for those walmart Nirvana tshirts, but the fact is simply your art loses all integrity when you do, unless he's giving all that money to the 3rd world sweat shop workers across the world, but we know he's not that humble. Maybe he has no say in the matter, I don't know who owns the rights to the logo, but I also don't care enough to look it up. But as an artist if he wasn't cool with it and respected what Kurt would have thought about it, Dave should say something about it. But he won't.
But the greater question remains, if Kurt didn't suicide, would Nirvana have been as "legendary" as they are now? I think it's very likely people would've gotten bored of them, Kurt would have soon run out of things to say and would have started putting out weak records, and then they would have faded away.
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