Journalist and music critic Regis Tadeu published a video talking about Kurt Cobain, focusing on the musician’s tragic death that happened 30 years ago, in what was one of the most memorable events in the history of Rock.
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“In this video here I’m going to talk about his last days, how Kurt Cobain became an anguished icon while he was still alive and how he succumbed to the weight of his inner demons, in which fame and success left him with so much pain. point of him having done what he did”, says Regis, right at the beginning, going on to talk about the controversies surrounding Kurt’s death, criticizing the romanticized view that people have about his last days of life, which Regis says were idealized as if it were a kind of religious ordeal, as if drugs were romanticized elements in a poetic way.
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Regis then spends just over ten minutes describing, in detail, the events that preceded Kurt’s suicide, including what is known about the scene of the tragedy itself, and finally concludes: “Many people have tried to romanticize this tragedy, but the The truth is that Kurt was not only a victim of his own circumstances, let’s put it that way, but he was also a victim of a system that devours its stars”, says Regis, then commenting: “It is proof of the morbid fascination of this nonsense popular has with the self-destruction of their own idols”.
After commenting on excerpts from the farewell letter that Kurt left when he died, Regis explains: “Actually, Kurt Cobain died because he was not aware of the depression he had had since he was seven years old, which was never diagnosed, never treated. And this depression was monetized, like a chronic vital apathy that ended up giving back to rock at the time a viscerality that had disappeared with those horrible poser bands.”
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“But this viscerality, this anger, was later absorbed by the system itself, when fashion began to have such a grunge aesthetic in the clothes of the most famous brands (…) this self-destruction of Kurt Cobain was not a pose, no it was a brand image, it was an affliction, a real despair of someone who was sick mentally, physically and spiritually”, says Regis in the hard-hitting video, which can be seen in the player below.
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