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(7/29/04 9:14 pm)
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The Music World and Its Curse
THE MUSIC WORLD AND ITS CURSE
When we think of the music industry images of fame and money are the first things that come to mind. We often wonder how being famous would change us, and we often think it will change us for the best.
But let us not forget that the music world is shrouded in greed, drugs and death, obvious artists like Jimi Hendrix and Sid from the Sex Pistols spring to mind, but more recently, 6 years ago now, Kurt Cobain joined the list of music God's to forever be placed in our minds and in the heavens.
The music world knew of Kurt's heroin addiction and emotional problems but stood idly by and watch him slowly self-destruct into a shattered form of what he once was. It was reported widely in the last tours and albums that Kurt's addiction to Heroin was growing, and like a fire, was consuming everything in its path until nothing was left. While many of the music artists take drugs because they feel its wildly ' rock and roll ' to do so, Kurt, I belive, only took Heroin to blank out the constant stomach agoinies we so often heard about, to free his mind from the pain of his childhood and his parents divorce, which it is said, he never got over. As we know when his body was examined after his suicide huge traces of heroin were in his system. It was also said by close friends of Cobain that the Nevermind album was written while Kurt was addicted and using Heroin.
I often think why?, why did it get to that stage?, why didnt the record company step in and get him the help he needed? The only answer I can think of is greed and money. Kurt was writing the best material of his life, was making every gig a sell-out, he was making Geffen ( his record company ) a LOT of money. Why tamper with what already works? a philosophy that Geffen and every other record company in the world must have. They had the money to get him help, they could have put the tours on hold, delayed albums that may have been in the making, taken whatever steps needed to get him back to health. The fans would have understood, we were all very concerned about his health, when news of his problems got out. We would have waited.
My view on this is after reading his suicide note, it became clear he was un-happy with his fame because he felt like he was cheating us, he felt as if it was just another show, like he was a fraud for pretending to be enjoying himself when actully he was very, very depressed. He was also considering quitting Nirvana, for a while maybe permanently. Was it this decision that hampered Geffen's help? The fact he had out lived his use after long last, the fact that now maybe it was time to find another key to the hearts of millions of loyal, paying fans. The time to find yet another genius which they could squeeze the life out of? Did the record company in-directly kill him? All questions you have to answer yourself, I can only provide a base on which to build.
Maybe you agree with my way of thinking maybe you dont. All im saying is it shouldnt have happened, as the voice of a generation of fans Kurt deserves to be remembered and the real causes of his death found, then maybe he, and us as well, can finally rest in peace. As for the record companys worldwide, changes need to be made so this type of tragedy never happens again, they need to take real care of the artists that mean the world to people, not to keep them as ' toys ' only using them when they are bored or want to earn a bit more money, then putting them back in the vault and letting them take care of themselves, so much pressure is on artists now and we need them to be taken care of, we want them to know that we care what happens. But as long as there is money to be made by using them as pawn's in the corperate ' chess game ' I dont see how this will ever happen.
I would like to thank you for reading my report, I hope you have enjoyed it.
I am currently open for any topic you would like me to write about, or any questions, comments or corrections at Su8072_98@yahoo.com
thank you for your time
by
Dan Laycock.
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