Archive for July 27th, 2009
Kurt Cobain is spinning in his grave. Well, good.
There was a time that this video, in which Cherri V samples “Smells Like Teen Spirit” in an R&B-inflected pop song, would have made me scream “sacrilege!”. No longer. Not only is it hard to hold Cobain in a sort of reverence any more, to take umbrage with this would just ‘feel wrong’ – you know? It somehow seems that to say “oh my God, I can’t believe they did this to my youth” wouldn’t just be about nostalgia – it would be historically out of place. Can’t explain why I feel that way though. Anyhoo, sorta’ fun catchy song. [As if you had to ask, via]
By the way, if you haven’t seen Cobain documentary About a Son, I highly recommend it. As a friend who jut watched it this weekend said: “1) It’s really well done; 2) I’d either forgotten or never realized just how much he hated people”.