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Can we talk about how everyone suddenly loves Kurt Cobain like he was a saint
I was at a barbeque last weekend in Des Moines and this guy in his 20s starts going on about how Nirvana changed music forever and Kurt was some genius who we lost too soon. Look, I was alive in 1994 and I remember when he died. People weren't exactly lining up to buy Nevermind at the time. It took like three years after he passed for him to become this icon. Now everyone acts like they were there from day one. Has anyone else noticed this pattern with dead artists where people forget how they were actually treated when they were alive?
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emma_wells8313h ago
Oh man, you are so right about the timing of it all. I remember when Nevermind came out and half my friends thought it was just okay, not this lifechanging masterpiece people claim now. It's like the moment someone dies young everyone needs to rewrite history to fit some tragic hero story.
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lee68912h ago
92 percent of the people wearing Nirvana shirts now weren't born when Kurt died, @emma_wells83. It turned into a uniform more than a real fandom.
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