![]() ![]() Frances wrote in the caption, “30!!! I made it! Honestly, 20 year old Frances wasn’t sure that was going to happen. ![]() On Wednesday, the daughter of Courtney Love and the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain posted a series of images on Instagram from the past year to commemorate turning 30 years old. And I’m doing it.Frances Bean Cobain celebrated a milestone birthday this week, one she wasn't always sure she'd live to see. Once I get out of bed and get into my art room, I start painting. ![]() I have this motivation and ambition that I didn’t have before: ‘I want to go paint this painting.’ The hardest part of doing anything creatively is just getting up and doing. Now that the documentary is done, Frances is going to focus on her own art again: It was a cool experience, like having a Nirvana reunion minus one. And they went, ‘You are doing exactly what your father would have done.’ But I was glad they came over. I was sitting in a chair, chain-smoking, looking down like this affects total boredom. Dave said, ‘She is so much like Kurt.’ They were all talking amongst themselves, rehashing old stories I’d heard a million times. They look at me, and you can see they’re looking at a ghost. Jeebies,’ which is when they see me, they see Kurt. It was the first time had been together in a long time. Dave, Krist and Pat came over to a house where I was living. Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear notice the similarities most of all: And even if she was very young when Kurt died, they clearly share a lot of the same qualities. Her ability to parse his larger-than-life status, personal abandonment, and our culture’s celebrity worship shows a sophistication and a wisdom that’s beyond a 22-year-old’s normal scope. You don’t think it could have gotten any bigger. He became even bigger after he died than he was when he was alive. He inspired people to put him on a pedestal, to become St. If Kurt had just been another guy who abandoned his family in the most awful way possible… But he wasn’t. and our culture is obsessed with dead musicians. Even if I was in a car and had the radio on, there’s my dad. I was around 15 when I realized he was inescapable. I would have felt more awkward if I’d been a fan. It’s a stripped-down version of Kurt’s perception of himself - of himself on drugs, off drugs, feeling inadequate to be titled the voice of a generation.īut does she feel any guilt for not being more drawn to her dad’s music? And “Dumb” ( In Utero) - I cry every time I hear that song. But “Territorial Pissings” ( Nevermind) is a fucking great song. The grunge scene is not what I’m interested in. I’m more into Mercury Rev, Oasis, Brian Jonestown Massacre. I don’t really like Nirvana that much grins. On her favorite Nirvana songs and a general disinterest in their music: (She’s been dealing with it since her first ever interview at age 13.) Frances was one of the executive producers for Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck and she spoke rather candidly to Rolling Stone about her relationship to her father and his legacy. That’s without even mentioning Courtney Love is her mom.īut in light of the recent documentary about her father, Kurt Cobain, Frances has opted to open up about some of the questions that have lingered for pretty much her entire life. That’s heavy burden to bear, let alone bear in public. And, to her credit, Frances has mostly avoided talking about her dad in public at all - and we’re talking about a child who was raised in the shadow of a suicidal parent. So before any diehard fans get up in arms about it, think about how the stuff your parents are affiliated with indelibly loses some of its crisp, shiny meaning, blunted by family ties. If you were Frances Bean Cobain, you probably wouldn’t like Nirvana much, either. ![]()
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