Ten Years On

[redfiona99]

Featuring Kurt Cobain, Brian Lara and Ayrton Senna.

This post was basically caused by NME and MTV2 going completely over the top in their "Kurt Cobain RIP" week.

Other than both of them seem to have forgotten that RIP stands for rest in peace, and going on and on about him doesn't seem to be peaceful, they really have been going gaga in saying how influential he was.

Completely forgetting to mention the other 2 members of Nirvana. Okay I'm aware he was their mainspring but there were 3 people in that band.

And secondly, Nirvana weren't actually that influential. I'm well aware that I'm committing a modern day heresey by saying that, but they weren't. The way NME and MTV2 were going on you'd think there wasn't a single band going at the minute that weren't influenced by them.

But there are tonnes of bands that haven't been. Most of the major sellers in today's music charts don't seem to have been, I've yet to hear rappers going on about how great Nirvana were, and I have friends that don't give two ticks who this man was, they think his band is loud, strange and not that good actually.

But the most fun part is people my age saying how much he meant to them. Which makes me laugh because I was nine at the time and I remember them being huge Take That fans.

I don't even remember there being a great big hoohah over him dying.

And it's not that I don't remember anything from back then, because I remember Lara making his first triple century. I remember that quite clearly, to the point of remembering who was playing for the England team at the time.

It's ten years on from that, and he's just scored another, in fact he's got the world record back at 401 runs.

And this weekend is the San Marino Grand Prix, and it's ten years on from Ayrton Senna crashing. And that I remember clearly as well. I wish I didn't but I do.

I don't mean any disrespect to Nirvana or their fans but I think the music media sometimes over-exaggerate their importance.

Comments

[devilswolf.livejournal.com]

Remember that the mass media, including the music media, have far too much time and money on their hands and not enough brains. They thrive on creating hoopla and enthusiasm, not on saying, "Eh, they were okay." Their job (no matter what they think their job really is), every one of them, is to convince people to buy more recorded music, so they apply the same techniques used by the people who market any other product, from sports cars to toilet cleanser: overhype it and artificially create a demand for it.

In other words, how influential Nirvana may or may not have been is entirely irrelevant to the media. All that matters is how influential and great they can CLAIM Nirvana was.

In other words: Ignore them. =)