https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u The Star Image of Kurt Donald Cobain en-us 2022-11-10 13:15:58 UTC 2022-11-25 11:41:47 UTC hello@padlet.com 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378713197 Nirvana was an American rock band from 1987 to 1994, Kurt was the lead vocalist and they became hugely successful after the release of their second album Nevermind (1991). Nirvana's musical style mainly consisted of grunge, alt and punk rock. ]]> 2022-11-10 14:28:09 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378713197 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378744864 The themes of Nirvana's music tie in well with the themes of Kurt's star image such as: 
Rebellion 
Anti-Establishment 
Alienation ]]> 2022-11-10 14:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378744864 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378777726 This is an example of the band's anti-establishment theme as on the British music TV show 'Top of the Pops', by on purpose ruining the song that made them hit the mainstream. At the time, 'Top of the Pops' made it so artists had to sing live over a pre-recorded backing track. Kurt and the rest of Nirvana didn't like this policy and rebelled by changing the lyrics of the song 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' and singing an octave lower, there is also a part where Kurt attempts to eat the microphone. ]]> 2022-11-10 15:02:24 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378777726 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378859063 They kissed each other at the end of the show during the closing credits to "piss off the rednecks and homophobes".

]]> 2022-11-10 15:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378859063 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378866349 Kurt Cobain was the spokesperson for generation x's alienated group.  'Hippies, punks and every other teen movement in history would have taken this Volvo-driven volte-face as a sell-out. But not the twentysomethings, the children of Reagan and Thatcher who have shed politics and who came of age in the consumerist 1980s. X-ers don't have a problem with the system - they just can't find their place in it.' (Freedland, 2014)]]> 2022-11-10 15:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378866349 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378877610 Cobain died by suicide on April 5th 1994, his body was discovered at his home in Seattle, Washington. ]]> 2022-11-10 16:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378877610 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378879872 2022-11-10 16:03:08 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378879872 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378882085 Kurt Cobain was part of a tragic group of musicians who all died coincidentally at the age of 27. Apart from Cobain, the group includes Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Amy Winehouse. The term became widely known after the death of Cobain.]]> 2022-11-10 16:04:31 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378882085 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378894972 KOMO a news station in Seattle where Kurt died shows the reaction from fans and others of his death and how much he meant to them.]]> 2022-11-10 16:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378894972 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378906098 2022-11-10 16:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2378906098 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2390962707 T-Shirts were made and sold online in 2015 that had Kurt's suicide note on it, it was heavily criticised for being 'tasteless' and removed from certain websites. ]]> 2022-11-19 15:16:18 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2390962707 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2390967367 In 2015 an album was released of Kurt's solo work. It was the soundtrack for a documentary on his life called 'Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck' (Brett Morgan, 2015). ]]> 2022-11-19 15:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2390967367 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2390968111 Cobain is very much a star that embodies ideas of anti-consumerism however, as a star Cobain has little power in how his image can be commercialised. ]]> 2022-11-19 15:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2390968111 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2394680857 This video shows Nirvana discuss their ticket prices and comparing them to other popular artists of the time. Nirvana having a lower cost to other musicians gives the impression that they care more about their fans and their image over the money that they produce. ]]> 2022-11-22 20:28:26 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2394680857 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2397184887 'The repeated celebration of young death in popular culture – such as the ‘27 Club’, creates the mystique of an early grave, providing a doomed, often misunderstood, genius character, a role to be acted out with devastating consequences. Such repeated illustrations and perpetuations of this idea are instilled as key symbols of authenticity, as club ‘members’, such as Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain become more viral, powerful and potent after death, as are the ideas, places and spaces associated with them.' (Bickerdike, 2014).]]> 2022-11-24 20:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2397184887 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2397192165 'In the 1990s few rock stars reached a higher pinnacle of success than Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. Like so many other rockers, Kurt Cobain became a success by the standards of the establishment he railed against.' (Hill, 1994).]]> 2022-11-24 20:15:28 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2397192165 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2397193257 'When on 5 April 1994, at the age of 27 he committed suicide, he effectively abandoned his 15- to 30-year-old fans - known as 'Generation X'.' (Hill, 1994)]]> 2022-11-24 20:17:46 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2397193257 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2397200912 Shows Kurt wearing a t-shirt that says 'corporate magazines still suck'

]]> 2022-11-24 20:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2397200912 201534908 https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2397207835 The shirt inspired a $550 designer version, 'turning Cobain’s political demonstration into a product both naively misses the point and savvily meets a corporate bottom line.' (Shaffer, 2019). ]]> 2022-11-24 20:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/201534908/7y5hd6u96d36nq5u/wish/2397207835