Originally published at: Happy Birthday, Kurt Cobain | Boing Boing
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Cobain would have been 56 today. I know this because today is also my birthday and I turned 56. We were born on the same day in the same year, but obviously led very different lives. I wish he could have found the help and support he needed.
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Spoken like someone who clearly must not have lived through that era. While punk was already pretty old by the mid-80’s it was still cooler than hair metal. “Campy”? Yes. “Cool”? Nope, more like corny and foppy.
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RIP, Kurt! You’re still missed very much!
That really depended on who was doing the defining of “cool”… the vast majority of people did not think punk was actually cool. There was a very strong anti-punk strain right through into the rise of Grunge as a mainstream phenomenon. Obviously, lots of people who participated in punk rock believed that they were cool and the hair-metal-heads were most certainly not, but the mainstream culture was much more on the side of the hair metal at the time. Now, I think most people would agree that the underground music scenes were the cool ones, but frankly, that’s just projectng onto the past.
Just a good reminder that perceptions are contextual.
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Yeah, I guess…
throws ACME COOL-O-METRE in bin.
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It is what it is…
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