[alyasa]

I remember when Nirvana first came out on the radio and on MTV, it united people. Suddenly everyone was tied together by a common love for one band. The generation had been quiet, still hungover from the greed and suicides of the 80s, all the fake hair bands with their sex and drugs and alcohol and pithy rock n roll, which was always secondary to the image, the style anyway. Nirvana brought everyone together, from the freaks to the plebians to the upper crust. The jocks and the geeks were momentarily singing along together to SLTS and everyone loved Nirvana. But I believe this was the overriding factor that overwhelmed Kurt Cobain and the band. They became more than an image, more than a band, more than a style. They became media gods and were worshipped, their every word and action gobbled up by a generation hungry for substance and something different. They were a phenomenon and they wanted to be rock star musicians.