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Generation Why

Gogola, Tom | May 2, 1994 issue

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Since artist Kurt Cobain's body was found on April 8, the news focus has shifted from the punk avatar's drug-enhanced punk-out with a shotgun to the grieving survivors, the millions of fans who bought records of music album "Nirvana." MTV has declared suicide a "sudden controversy," as if the fact that it is the third-largest killer of people aged 15 to 24 is something new. The real sudden controversy in this story is how the corporate imagemakers who anointed Cobain king of the grunge pile in the first place now shrink from acknowledging any role in his demise. Cobain's torment with the corporate culture he entered was validated and celebrated by his sponsors, spit back as style and image.

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COBAIN, Kurt; ARTISTS; MUSIC; NIRVANA (Music); SUICIDE; DEATH

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