Some internet guru in 2021 said if I just visualized wealth and said affirmations every morning, my credit card debt would just disappear. I believed her for 8 months and racked up an extra $3,400 in interest and late fees because I wasn't actually paying anything. Has anyone else fallen for this fake positivity garbage and ended up worse off than when you started?
He said Nirvana was just grunge watered down for radio pop fans and that the Melvins deserved the fame instead. I still think about how passionate he was about it, has anyone else had a random neighbor drop a hot take that actually stuck with you?
Found this little retro store in Portland. Owner had a whole shrine to her. Photos, dresses, old perfume bottles. I get she was iconic but she made like 10 movies. Some weren't even good. I asked the owner why not more Audrey Hepburn or something. She looked at me like I insulted her grandma. Has anyone else noticed how people put her on this crazy pedestal?
Overheard three guys arguing over whether he died on the toilet or not while a 60-year-old in a jumpsuit lip-synced Love Me Tender, and I realized how fake this whole worship thing really is.
I was at a family gathering in Ohio last June and my cousin brought out this whole shrine to Princess Diana with candles and photos. People were crying and saying she was the most perfect person who ever lived. I brought up that she did some questionable stuff like the BBC interview drama and got glared at for 10 minutes straight. Has anyone else dealt with that weird blind idol worship for a dead celeb who wasn't actually a saint?
I was at Walmart last Tuesday and this teenager in a Nirvana shirt couldn't name a single song off Bleach. He just mumbled something about "being sad" and walked away. That's when it hit me - most people who act like Kurt Cobain is some god just like the idea of him. They never bought the albums when it mattered or sat through the feedback noise. I think he's become a symbol for people who didn't even live through the 90s. Has anyone else noticed the gap between the real fans and the posers lately?
Sitting at my aunt's kitchen table in Portland two years ago, uncle Dave went on a 20 minute rant about how Nirvana changed music forever. He said 'you wouldn't get it, you were born in the 90s.' I didn't even like their stuff that much but felt too awkward to push back. Has anyone else dealt with older relatives acting like you can't question certain dead musicians?
She paid 40 bucks for it and hung it in her living room like it was sacred art, even though she admitted she only knows "Light My Fire." Last week I saw the same poster at a thrift store for 5 dollars, and nobody even glanced at it. Why do people treat dead rock stars like they were saints when they just wrote catchy songs?
I was at a family dinner last Sunday and my aunt, who's 62 and lived through the 90s, said she thinks people overhype Kurt Cobain because they want to feel edgy. She told me straight up, 'He made three real albums and half of them were sloppy.' It hit different because she saw him live and admitted he was good but not this god people make him out to be. Made me wonder how many dead musicians get this huge pass just because they died young. Has anyone else had an older relative change your mind on a celeb like that?