at she only got her bands fame from the fact that she was married to Cobain("For Better").Cobain's music on the other hand was being called "damning toward the band's star stature", as if he was trying to lose fans and push his popularity away("Biting"). Then his unplugged performance for MTV led to speculation as to where he would have taken his career had he not died, Billy Joel, "a musician from the other side of the musical globe from Cobain, acknowledged the latter's talent in an interview" saying "I saw him as a very promising writer...what drove Nirvana was composition and song"(Plugged in). After his death "Cobain was canonized as rock 'n' roll's savior"("Degrees"). "Cobain had picked up the blowtorch dropped by Britain's Sex Pistols more than a decade earlier to create a raw, passionate, uncompromising music for the 1990s"("Degrees").Kurt Cobain and Nirvana had been the main drive of Grunge, they had "ushered in a cultural revolution" there was no denying it, and without them Grunge began to quietly fade away("You Call this Nirvana?").The corporate grunge rush was over, quickly sobered up by the death of Cobain. Grunge bands began losing their popularity and were dropped from the major record labels. To corporate America grunge became taboo, something not to be dealt with. "In the days after Kurt Cobains death, the nation again gaped at Seattle's grunge music scene" horrified, the media began spotlighting the heroin use of Seattle("Seattle Scene"). The Seattle police said that "the magnifying glass of media attention [had] distorted the reality of heroin in Seattle"("Seattle Scene"). The media kept it's attention on Seattle's rise in heroin use though, while in reality the rise was nationwide and media was only focusing on the current news hotbed('Seattle Scene'). Heroin is a bitter, odorless, crystalline compound that is used as a narcotic and is highly addictive. It originates from the drug opium, which has been used through...
