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by digitalengineer 4853 days ago
Kurt Cobain sure did. By cross-dressing he made Nirvana have a lot less appeal for the heavy metal fans.
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Really? Heavy Metal fans were into cross dressing ever since the seventies. Including gay all-leather biker chic, long curly bubblegum hair and tights in the eighties...
Okay, I'm no expert on heave metal. Perhaps another kind of audience.
I think him releasing accessible anthems that had widespread popular appeal did far more to isolate Navana from the core metal elitists than any styling choices Kurt may have made.

Plus it's not as if metal bands were against 'glamming' up in the first place. In fact it became it's own sub-genre.

also the atrocious guitar playing and constant mumbling helped a lot in that department. but we digress. on the topic: i like comic sans. it looks friendly. there, i said it.
> also the atrocious guitar playing

You're joking right? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoiUpe7N3D0

alright, i was (kinda) joking. but i don't think that the guitar playing was the unique selling value of nirvana. the song writing was stellar though.
Heavy metal and grunge are two very different genres.