Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain


 A look Into the Life and Career of a Legend; A Proposal


     Kurt Donald Cobain was the lead singer/songwriter of the band Nirvana,

until April 5 1994 when he committed suicide. Troubled by depression,  chronic

stomach problems,  and an addiction to heroin,  his ailments in his personal

life showed through in his music.  His music evolved from the hard "punk" sound

of their first album,  to the intelligent "tell all" tales of his fourth and

final album In Utero.  Through his music he changed an era of “lost souls”,  to

a generation with a vision of who they were.  The songs he wrote and played

captured the attention of the world,  but also brought him the fame and fortune

that led to his downfall.  The pain and the hate of his life filled the lines,

tough hidden under his sarcasm.  He couldn't take the voices in his head that

had plagued him all his life,  that compiled with his dislike of the fame caused

him to end his own life.  The life that gave him no joy.


     The first time I heard Nirvana they changed my life. I was sitting in

class and one of my friends tapped into the P.A. system.  He hooked it up to his

Walkman and started playing Smells Like Teen Spirit,  Nirvana's first single.  I

was sitting in class day dreaming and suddenly I was pulled out of it by this

amazing sound.  A few seconds later the principal shut off the song,  but by

that time I was hooked.  Later that day I went to the record store and bought

their second first and second album. I took them him and threw them into the CD

player and fell in love.  Finally I could identify with music,  the words that

poured from the speakers spoke my life.  Until that moment I had no direction

and felt alienated from the rest of the kids my age. But Cobain's music touched

on what I was not able realize at my age,  that being yourself is all right no

matter what the "trendy" junior high school kids thought.  Though I would not

understand the impact of his music or what his words meant to him,  and that

those songs would pull me through the hardest times in my life.


Research Question


     How did his depression influence his music,  and how did it show up in

his work?


     Outline and Source Summary


     Since the first time I heard Nirvana and their music,  it had an impact

on my life.  Though I never stopped to think about the meaning behind the actual

words that were spoken.  From the time that Nirvana started back in 1986,  they

have changed faces both on the inside and the outside.  Kurt Cobain was born in

a small town in Aberdeen,  Washington in 1967(Wilson 2).  He grew up in a broken

home and had many problems along the way,  because of his hyper-active nature

nobody in his family wanted him(Wilson 2).  He was passed around from aunts and

uncles,  to his gThis is ONLY a preview of the article. If you would like to view the entire document, you must subscribe to Electronic References. Please register below now!


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