#i don't put kurt on as high a pedestal as most people do

[adamshallperish]

i really hate posthumous statements that try to evaluate what kurt cobain would feel about what people do with his art, but i also can't fucking imagine anything kurt would hate more than ai. nothing is more of a bastardization of all he stood for than a machine taking his voice to try to replicate his art. he literally called pearl jam, an actual band made of real people, "fake music" (a statement i don't agree with, kurt could be a bitch at times) so imagine how he would feel about this shit. no ai will ever replicate kurt's voice, musical style, or lyricism in a way that matters. he's dead. grow up.

#i don't put kurt on as high a pedestal as most people do #like he was a really talented musician #but he was also just some guy #not a god #but the man was an icon for a reason and i'm sick of people trying to dig up his corpse #nirvana #kurt cobain #grunge #90s grunge #seattle sound #ai

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Haven't Complained in a Bit

Hi Internet, it's me again. I know I said I'd be doing a second part to my last entry, but ran into something else that I just felt the need to complain about because…. well…. who's gonna stop me?

So, I'm one of these goobers that gets sucked into YouTube Short videos. It's like TikTok (I assume, I've never actually used the service), but just YouTube shit. And so I'm watching videos when this little gem crosses my screen:

Now, to start off…. I was never a fan of this song. I understand it was a thing for the people who recorded it as a tribute to Notorious BIG, however all it was to me was a remix/cover of the creepy stalker song by The Police.

I was not a fan of Notorious BIG, I was not a fan of Tupac. They had some decent songs, but nothing in my book that was "worship" level that when they both passed away, it sucked, but wasn't life effecting for me.

So you get this shot in this video that states:

Xennials and Gen X every time they hear this song. And the girl is all sad and teary. No. I am from that generation and that is not how I feel. How I feel is "OMG, this song. CHANGE!" and change the radio channel or hit the skip button.

This song was over saturated on the air and just was hammered to death. It's not a bad song, but all the bullshit behind it and hearing it just about every other song for MONTHS on end took it's toll.

With this all said, what got me heated enough to actually sit down, start typing and post this was the comments.

So many fucking comments about how it was played at so and so's funeral, how they can't listen to this song without crying because "Biggie", etc.

Oh my god, this song literally doesn't hold that kind of water for me. I can listen to that song and the only thing I feel is irritated. But they hold a candle to it for "Biggie".

And it got me thinking, most people hold candles for songs or deceased artists when they really didn't put anything out that was all that "wow". Now, that's not to say that Biggie or Tupac didn't put out good music or songs that weren't notable, but they weren't the next coming of Christ. They didn't reinvent anything, they didn't pioneer anything, they simply died at the peak of their popularity, which in turn got me thinking of other artists like that. Kurt Cobain, Janice Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix. Held with such high esteem, but should they? Sure, they weren't shit artists, but to treat them like Gods when they simply died early in life?

I swear this is me getting old, but I don't get it. Sucks they died, but to put them on a pedestal and suck their ghost dicks (for lack of a better term) is just a bit much and it's like…. dial it back guys, for real.

That's it, complaining satisfied. Thanks again Internet, you'll always understand/listen to me. lol