An event or moment · 1994 · Music
Kurt Cobain
A death broadcast in real time to a generation that had grown up with a songwriter's complaints as a soundtrack.
Parasocial grief with a specific edge: the person had spent years being public about being miserable, and the audience had been treating it as content. Afterwards, every public complaint became a private grief waiting to happen.
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