Kurt Cobain — "I think it's really lame for journalists to write and accuse me of taking drugs …"
I think it's really lame for journalists to write and accuse me of taking drugs because kids are going to read that article. and then they're going to do drugs. because I do that's really lame. i'm kind of an example for people and there are 9-year-old kids who are into our band. and if they think that I take drugs. and I think it's cool then they're going to do it. too you know I don't like bands who promote drug use because it influences people and it isn't cool
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American singer-songwriter and Nirvana frontman whose Nevermind (1991) ended the hair-metal era; died of suicide April 5, 1994.
Closely associated with
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam frontman and grunge contemporary) and Layne Staley (Alice in Chains frontman).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Axl Rose, Guns N' Roses frontman — Nevermind toppled GNR's Use Your Illusion II from #1 in January 1992, ending the late-80s Sunset Strip excess Cobain's grunge austerity was specifically reacting against. The cleanest single moment in late-20th-century rock — the literal generational pivot from hair-metal excess to flannel-shirt anti-rock-star authenticity.
