It's a stark difference between then and now, that you'd really have to look into Cobain to get his retarded opinions, and corporations were smart enough to keep that shit away from the masses where it could threaten their income.
Today, the more money they lose for The Message is greater proof to idiots that the multinational corporation is somehow down for the struggle.
It really loses a lot of it's appeal without the context of the age of unfettered materialism in which it was born. At that point in history there was pretty much nobody anywhere who actually cared about, or even noticed, the problems with western economies which are more or less public knowledge these days.
Nirvanas got some bangers, but most grunge comes off like a bunch of homeless people starting a rock band, the epitome of which is that Pearl Jam song where he just moans "I'm going hungry" over and over again
Almost nothing about Kurt or Nirvana is special as a musician other than the fact that they everyone else tried to copy them, which pushed them from just another idiot to this "icon" everyone hypes. Same with him dying before he could really undermine himself fully, just like Sid Vicious.
Like, its beyond bad how much almost every genre and even most bands fail the basic human decency tests. They are riddled with druggies, political nonsense, and overall the most damaging lifestyles out there that make Hollywood stars look normal.
We could even repurpose your title for them and it works. Metal is just a bunch of Scandinavian Leftists screaming about Satan. Rock is a bunch of different junkies whining about sex and drugs. Rap is a bunch of niggers acting like they are heroes. Country is a bunch of Rich whities LARPing as poor rural guys.
Point being, we need to raise our standards across the board for musicians if we judge them by anything outside their music.
Completely agree. Nirvana was THE big step of clown world into the modern era. Gloomy, navel gazing, self pitying nihilism. The millennial generation was forever poisoned by the zeitgeist created by Cobain and his so called music.
I think the main reason for me there's a nostalgia factor to it, as that was what I listened to as a teenager. I didn't watch the whole video but it looks like mostly disagreement with his politics, which is fine, but also somehing that was normal for a teenager in the 90s to ignore. I do still listen to some of it, Alice in Chains being my favorite, but yeah I know another bitching heroin addict. My everyday listening music taste has drifted back to 70s rock, blues, country, and classical more so though. Most of which I'm sure someone could poke political holes in too.
Counterpoint to you, I do find a lot of melodic quality to the actual instrumental portion of grunge music in a time when it wasn't necessarily as edited out. This especially in contrast to modern popular music now that is a boring beat with a nigger mumbling about sex parts through an autotune device.
Music is one of those things that just sits in your subconscious from your youth and you'll just always be attracted to it without any good reason because of that. Its hard to even verbalize why you enjoy it, you just do regardless of its quality.
I think if more people recognized that instead of trying to argue that their nostalgic band is actually good we'd get a lot less of these angry rejections of now irrelevant bands.
I like some Nirvana songs. I don't think about Kurt Cobain a lot.
Some people just have it backwards.
I had no idea he was such a lunatic.
It's a stark difference between then and now, that you'd really have to look into Cobain to get his retarded opinions, and corporations were smart enough to keep that shit away from the masses where it could threaten their income.
Today, the more money they lose for The Message is greater proof to idiots that the multinational corporation is somehow down for the struggle.
It really loses a lot of it's appeal without the context of the age of unfettered materialism in which it was born. At that point in history there was pretty much nobody anywhere who actually cared about, or even noticed, the problems with western economies which are more or less public knowledge these days.
I agree, Nirvana was highly overrated.
Nirvanas got some bangers, but most grunge comes off like a bunch of homeless people starting a rock band, the epitome of which is that Pearl Jam song where he just moans "I'm going hungry" over and over again
Almost nothing about Kurt or Nirvana is special as a musician other than the fact that they everyone else tried to copy them, which pushed them from just another idiot to this "icon" everyone hypes. Same with him dying before he could really undermine himself fully, just like Sid Vicious.
Like, its beyond bad how much almost every genre and even most bands fail the basic human decency tests. They are riddled with druggies, political nonsense, and overall the most damaging lifestyles out there that make Hollywood stars look normal.
We could even repurpose your title for them and it works. Metal is just a bunch of Scandinavian Leftists screaming about Satan. Rock is a bunch of different junkies whining about sex and drugs. Rap is a bunch of niggers acting like they are heroes. Country is a bunch of Rich whities LARPing as poor rural guys.
Point being, we need to raise our standards across the board for musicians if we judge them by anything outside their music.
Completely agree. Nirvana was THE big step of clown world into the modern era. Gloomy, navel gazing, self pitying nihilism. The millennial generation was forever poisoned by the zeitgeist created by Cobain and his so called music.
I think the main reason for me there's a nostalgia factor to it, as that was what I listened to as a teenager. I didn't watch the whole video but it looks like mostly disagreement with his politics, which is fine, but also somehing that was normal for a teenager in the 90s to ignore. I do still listen to some of it, Alice in Chains being my favorite, but yeah I know another bitching heroin addict. My everyday listening music taste has drifted back to 70s rock, blues, country, and classical more so though. Most of which I'm sure someone could poke political holes in too.
Counterpoint to you, I do find a lot of melodic quality to the actual instrumental portion of grunge music in a time when it wasn't necessarily as edited out. This especially in contrast to modern popular music now that is a boring beat with a nigger mumbling about sex parts through an autotune device.
Music is one of those things that just sits in your subconscious from your youth and you'll just always be attracted to it without any good reason because of that. Its hard to even verbalize why you enjoy it, you just do regardless of its quality.
I think if more people recognized that instead of trying to argue that their nostalgic band is actually good we'd get a lot less of these angry rejections of now irrelevant bands.