Kurt Cobain’s Childhood Reflections Feel Even More Bone-Chilling Now, Decades After His Untimely Passing
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Kurt Cobain’s untimely passing sent shockwaves through the global music community. Sadly, in a resurfaced interview, the legendary Nirvana frontman shared some reflections on his childhood that feel bone-chilling when mirrored against his tragic death.
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In 1993, the Los Angeles Times ran a feature on the singer that tracked his life back to adolescence. Those days, back in Aberdeen, Washington, were ones that Cobain did not think back on fondly. The grunge icon indicated that he grew up around a lot of rude, crude people.
Frank Micelotta Archive / Contributor / Getty Images“Yeah, you know, there were a lot of Beavises and Butt-heads back there,” Cobain quipped. “The only difference is they weren’t as clever as the guys on TV.”
Sharing insight into his early life, Cobain seemed to reveal that he dealt with suicidal ideation from a young age. “I was a seriously depressed kid,” he said. “Every night at one point, I’d go to bed bawling my head off. I used to try to make my head explode by holding my breath, thinking if I blew up my head, they’d be sorry. There was a time when I never thought I’d live to see 21.”
Cobain died by suicide in 1994, with the cause of death being a gunshot wound to the head
Interestingly, the Nirvana founder also confessed that he did not have rock star dreams as a child. “Up until I was 9, I felt I could become a rock star or astronaut or the president,” he admitted. “I had total freedom and a lot of support and love from my family, at least on my mom’s side.” His life took a turn, however, when his parents split up.
“I was embarrassed, and I became really detached and quiet,” Cobain admitted. “My mom would take me to school, and I wouldn’t even look kids in the eye. I knew everyone knew that I only had one parent. That isn’t probably a big deal in a big town, but it is in a small town.”
As he got older, the instability grew more challenging. Cobain felt more and more isolated in a small town that did not value culture the way he did.
“I started getting in trouble, vandalizing, rebelling,” he revealed, adding that he “was never a bad kid…. I was just disgusted, and at that age, I couldn’t figure out why. The school counselor would tell me, ‘Try to fit in with people, dress the way they do, attend the dances, get into sports.’ That was always the big thing: Get into sports, and your life is perfect. “
Eventually, Cobain got out of Aberdeen, started Nirvana, and changed the course of music forever.
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