Kurt Cobain
by Scarlett Giesler
A Legend
-Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain, the well known vocalist and guitarist of Nirvana, had a life behind that of his fame that was highly misunderstood and is still somewhat unknown by many. Aside being a musician, Cobain also had excellent art and was considered, what some people would think, a little strange. His relationship with Courtney Love led to a child they named Frances Bean. His suicide is still questioned and Nirvana remains one of the greatest and most iconic rock bands.
Kurt
Kurt Cobain was born February 1967 in Aberdeen Washington. His parents divorced when he was nine, causing Cobain to become withdrawn. Cobain would have told you that he hated humans in general since the age of seven. As a child Cobain not only excelled in music but also in art. He started drawing at a very young age and after his parents divorced he received a guitar as a gift from his uncle, becoming a form of escape. Many people considered Cobain to be disturbed or strange. Many reasons could lead to these ideas. Alongside using bodily fluids mixed with his paint and his obsession with suicide he was fascinated by women's reproductive systems and organs, which is an obvious factor in his music. Cobain also had a love for animals and had collections of things such as seahorses, vintage board games, toy monkeys, dolls and heart shaped boxes. He had several journals in which he used not only for writing his music but also for a diary. He often recorded himself reading from these journals, which lead to a collection of his own tapes. In the year 1994 on April 5th, Kurt Cobain commit suicide in his home in Seattle. Two days later his body was found along with a suicide note. Cobain, in his letter, explained how he had lost his inspiration, where he stated he felt he could not go on. "It is better to burn out than to fade away" (Cobain,).
Fame
Kurt Cobain is well known as a legendary singer, guitar player and grunge performer. Cobain was highly misunderstood and complex. Some of his life and feelings can be interpreted through his deep lyrics of his songs, even as some went through ten drafts and changed titles up to three times (Cross, pg 63). Cobain criticized himself in his journals about how he was misunderstood even to himself. Though Cobain was misconstrued, many of his fans had either been very understanding or entirely similar, this could be obvious learning of the many teenagers in American and Australia whom had followed, in dismay, his suicide. Cobain's heroin use also fueled his fame as fans thought his drug abuse made him much more a rockstar.
Courtney Love
The phrase "opposites attract" is not in effect here. The two met in 1990. Courtney Love and Kurt were very similar in multiple ways. Author of Cobain Unseen Charles R. Cross writes about some of the similarities, stating that the two both had a fractured and tragic childhood, both had been so poor they received food stamps, both had struggled to find a positive adult role model, and the two had both believed they could one day escape their circumstances through art. Cross goes on to state that the two had both shown signs of narcissism, due to the neglect they had grown up with, they had also shared some of the same demons, including drugs. (Cross, pg 89). Almost expectantly, Love was also suspected of taking part in Cobain's death.
Nirvana
Frances Bean Cobain
Frances Bean today is famous for being a model and singer, creating her own identity as well as being known from her parents.
Suicide?
Works Cited
IMDb. IMDb.com, 1990. Web. 16 Oct. 2012. <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001052/bio>.
Cross, Charles R. Cobain Unseen. New York: Little, Brown and, 2008. Print.
Frances Bean Cobain Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, 1996. Web. 17 Oct. 2012. <http://www.biography.com/people/frances-bean-cobain-281996>.
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