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Post by SharksFan99 on Oct 27, 2019 20:05:32 GMT 10
 I was listening to "You Know You're Right" earlier and it got me thinking about how Nirvana's legacy has fared since Kurt Cobain's passing. I have a lot of grievances with the way in which the band and Kurt in particular have been portrayed over the years. I've noticed that many items of Nirvana paraphernalia tend to make a mockery out of Kurt's suicide by gunshot and his drug use, which, as a Nirvana fan myself, I personally consider to be a huge dishonour to the band members as people and their entire discography. Perhaps one of the most notable examples of how Nirvana's legacy has best been felt this decade is the popularity of Nirvana T-shirts, like the one above. I can remember seeing quite a few kids around my age wearing Nirvana "smiley face" T-shirts about five years ago. They were also popular with people in their twenties. However, it has been years now since I have last spotted someone wearing one and i'm starting to wonder if they were a trend unique to the Mid 2010s? Nirvana T-Shirts have always been around of course, even going back to the days when Nirvana were making music, but it can't be denied that they had become somewhat of a fashion trend during the first-half of this decade. It had become "trendy" to wear Nirvana T-shirts. Looking back though, how and when did it even come about? Was it the 20th anniversary of Nevermind back in 2011 that kickstarted the trend? Also, who were the age cohort responsible for popularising them? I've long suspected that it was people born in the Mid-Late '90s who were the ones that predominantly wore the shirts, those of us born either around the time Kurt took his own life or in the years immediately after it had happened. I guess there is that curiosity factor over the fact that one of the greatest rock bands of all time, a band that tragically had their time cut-short, had disbanded just before we were born.
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Post by John Titor on Oct 28, 2019 3:35:23 GMT 10
I was listening to "You Know You're Right" earlier and it got me thinking about how Nirvana's legacy has fared since Kurt Cobain's passing. I have a lot of grievances with the way in which the band and Kurt in particular have been portrayed over the years. I've noticed that many items of Nirvana paraphernalia tend to make a mockery out of Kurt's suicide by gunshot and his drug use, which, as a Nirvana fan myself, I personally consider to be a huge dishonour to the band members as people and their entire discography. Perhaps one of the most notable examples of how Nirvana's legacy has best been felt this decade is the popularity of Nirvana T-shirts, like the one above. I can remember seeing quite a few kids around my age wearing Nirvana "smiley face" T-shirts about five years ago. They were also popular with people in their twenties. However, it has been years now since I have last spotted someone wearing one and i'm starting to wonder if they were a trend unique to the Mid 2010s? Nirvana T-Shirts have always been around of course, even going back to the days when Nirvana were making music, but it can't be denied that they had become somewhat of a fashion trend during the first-half of this decade. It had become "trendy" to wear Nirvana T-shirts. Looking back though, how and when did it even come about? Was it the 20th anniversary of Nevermind back in 2011 that kickstarted the trend? Also, who were the age cohort responsible for popularising them? I've long suspected that it was people born in the Mid-Late '90s who were the ones that predominantly wore the shirts, those of us born either around the time Kurt took his own life or in the years immediately after it had happened. I guess there is that curiosity factor over the fact that one of the greatest rock bands of all time, a band that tragically had their time cut-short, had disbanded just before we were born. it was h&m selling the shirts in 2011 along with 90s nostalgia creeping in hard on the internet
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Post by ItsMichael on Oct 28, 2019 6:48:42 GMT 10
You are right about one thing being that Nirvana shirts have become somewhat popular as a fashion trend. However sometimes when kids wear those kinds of shirts that involve bands like Nirvana they don't even know who they are. They just wear the shirts because they think its a fashion designer like Adidas or Vans. It doesn't make any sense to me for someone to wear a shirt like that and not have a clue of what it is. I guess that one reason why people like to wear Nirvana shirts a lot is to think about the 90s or the amount of nostalgia it offered. If you ask me there were a lot more bands than just Nirvana that helped make the 90s decade so great like Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers or even Metallica.
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Post by al on Nov 3, 2019 14:27:27 GMT 10
Unfortunately (Or fortunately? Depends on your perspective.) I don’t even think this has a lot to do with Nirvana as a band nor their music. It’s basically just this breed of hipster cool that says it’s acceptable to describe your clothing style as “band t-shirts”. The wearer ranging anywhere from wannabe to pretentious. Begin the whole cycle of comparing who actually listens to the band versus who doesn’t. Now this isn’t me trashing the shirts or trying to be pretentious myself, because I’d be lying to say I don’t own any cool shirts for the #aesthetic. But I don’t know, it’s lead to a lot of discussion on authenticity for this entire past decade that nothing conclusive has ever really come from. Is the band typically being misrepresented in these scenarios? Yup. Yet it’s also advertising for them. You could say “oh they don’t want that” or whatever, but what if seeing names and logos casually as it is on someone’s shirt is what gets one to look them up and find out what they’re all about. That part might not be a bad thing; keeping the old alive. The concept of at what level of understanding it’s okay to present oneself as liking something is not easily defined and hopefully will be explored more in years to come.
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