Happy Birthday, Kurt
February 20th, 2006 -- Posted in music | 4 Comments »Cobain was a happy child, always smiling, not being able to wait till the next day. But then matters were made worse when Cobain’s parent’s divorced when he was seven and by his own account Cobain said he never felt loved or secure again. He became increasingly difficult, anti-social and withdrawn after his parent’s divorce. Cobain also said that his parent’s traumatic split fueled a lot of the anguish in Nirvana’s music.
Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – ca. April 5, 1994) was the lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist of the Seattle grunge band Nirvana. He served not only as the band’s frontman, but as its “leader and spiritual center”. With the band’s success, Cobain became a major national and international celebrity, an uncomfortable position for someone who claimed to be “ill at ease with fame and ill-equipped to handle the responsibility that accompanies success”.
It was just sad that such an influential rock icon had to end his own life and leave his young daughter to the care of his now widowed wife. Nevertheless, he had left a legacy (both intangible and material senses) for his family, enough to take care of them through his daughter, Francis Bean’s upbringing.
Courtney and Francis Bean – 2005
So what would you say to how your family went on without you, Kurt? Francis Bean was only two when you demise yourself with the shotgun. She is now 13 years old, going through teens, a time when either one will turn up right or end up a disaster.
Courtney struggled to maintain the lifestyle you left her with and a plastic surgery frenzy that went wrong. Your fans are growing old. Your pal Dave Grohl was successful with his own band Foo Fighters but the fire is slowing dying out. What do you have remained?
I’d say your music and the flame in them are still burning. From time to time, I still hear tunes like Heart-Shaped Box and Smells Like Teen Spirit played on air. Geffen just released a Nirvana Box Set “With the Lights Out” last november. Your music is remembered today as a legend.
Now what’s there that is so hard to handle? Can’t accept the reality of a rock star? Not willing to face the media with your nuts in their throat? I must say that no matter how you have represented the rage in my younger days, but your decision to escape it all is just not what you represented. That is just not what I want to believe in. If I were you, I’d rather stay alive and shove those nuts in their arse instead.
Nevertheless, here’s a Happy Birthday to you, Kurt. You would have been a happy 39-year-old father had you stuck around, showing the ropes to your beautiful daughter and guide her to rule the world. Even if she isn’t into music, she will still show you what pride a parent can have.
