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...joke--5 min.) He also knows he has done plenty to earn the title. As lead singer of the legendary '80s band the Smiths, Morrissey was quite possibly the unhappiest person in the world. What bonded him to his audience forever--and made him a prototype for Kurt Cobain--was his willingness to share. "There's no line between me and my material," says Morrissey. "If you claim to be a true pop artist, then you are one 24 hours a day, and your darker moments have to be documented as much as the cheery ones. And even years...
Back in 1994--that Reality Bites, Kurt Cobain year--the show wanted to explain people in their 20s to themselves: the aimlessness, the cappuccino drinking, the feeling that you were, you know, "always stuck in second gear." It soon wisely toned down its voice-of-a-generation aspirations and became a comedy about pals and lovers who suffered comic misunderstandings and got pet monkeys...
Joshua S. Rosaler ’05 is a physics concentrator in Quincy House. Despite his love for Kurt Cobain, he doesn’t wear flannel shirts...
George Orwell once said that we lose our humanity when we try to be saints. Kurt Cobain, if anything, achieved sainthood through his humanity. Even in the face of his suicide, drug addiction and his apparent attempts to disguise his own careerism, I cannot help but feel that there was something extraordinarily benign about his sense of alienation from the testosterone-driven culture of his home town, his avid defense of gay rights and his firm belief that women, rather than men, should rule the world. But if Cobain is a saint, then we must reexamine our definition of sainthood...
...first, the similarities between Cobain and Eminem are striking. Chris Norris of Spin Magazine observes, “Both were (are) left-handed, mom-hating, daughter-having, dysfunctional-wife-marrying, grossness-loving, who were utterly remade by a musical subculture, and then tried to present it as subverting the mainstream—even when it became the mainstream.” But beyond these interesting—and largely superficial—coincidences, there isn’t much common ground between Kurt and Slim. While Cobain always protested the sort of social order that embraces misogyny and homophobia, Eminem...