Mick Jagger is so full of contradictions... I think of him as kind of a
male chauvinist pig but then I also think of him as pioneering famous
performers dressing in drag and wearing makeup... right down to Kurt
Cobain, who was definitely NOT a male chauvinist pig, wearing eyeliner.
Lennon had contradictions, too, but his contradictions were
separated from each other by being attributes of phases he was going
through. Like he had his feminist "Woman is the Nigger of the World"
phase, then he had his macho pig Lost Weekend, and then he went back to
his feminist phase but this time that involved taking care of Sean and
baking bread and otherwise being a house-husband. I like to think he was
mainly a feminist, but I mainly base that on him being married to Yoko
Ono, who is FINALLY gaining the recognition she deserves as a pioneering
feminist who has riot grrrl poster girl Kathleen Hanna as one of her
devotees.
So, Lennon was the feminist who complained about ppl being "faggy,"
and Jagger is the womanizer who was wearing eyeliner before Billy Idol
and others made doing so macho in a punk rock kind of way. Curiouser and
curiouser...
Why is the fact that McCartney's going to "be" Kurt Cobain mean his
reputation is sinking? I think it means he's smart enough to know that
Cobain was ONE OF the most influential rock stars if not of all time, of
Cobain's time. Kurt single-handedly made indie rock, previously only
available to college students with radio shows, accessable to
everyone... 20 years later, we're still seeing the fruits of that.
I suppose you didn't think much of Johnny Cash covering NIN's "Hurt...
I hope when McCartney performs "as Kurt" they do "Pennyroyal Tea..."
that's my favorite Nirvana song and let's just say it's the song I put
on repeat when I'm feeling desolate, despairing and depressed.
Curiously: I believe I read in Cobain bio "Heavier Than Heaven" that
Courtney Love originally wrote the song... now there's a woman whose
music, along with that of Tori Amos, Ani Difranco, and PJ Harvey almost
literally saved my life as a teenager...
but i digress :)
