Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview

I've been obsessed with Kurt for a verrrrrry long time.

I think every kid going through their alternative phase finds Nirvana and it speaks to their twisted, tortured, teen souls.

Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview follows the same formula as every other book in The Last Interview collection. It leads up to his final interview in February 1994, just months before his death. Some of these interviews were absolutely insane to read but two specific ones stuck out to me the most. The July 1993 interview for Guitar World with Jon Savage shows them bantering on gay rights, feminism, and how their music allowed them to raise awareness for things they were genuinely passionate about without being overtly political. I also enjoyed the August 1993 interview for Much Music TV with Erica Ehm. They talked about life, love, and music. It showed a sweeter more relaxed version of Kurt as opposed to the Edgar Klusener interview with the whole band that honestly made me think a little differently of them.

Kurt lived the life he thought he wanted and it just wasn't enough for him. Growing up with next to nothing and being catapulted into stardom would be hard on anyone, let alone someone living with a chronic illness and shaky mental health. Yet somehow, through all that Kurt became the voice of a generation. Someone who said and did what everyone was thinking without any regrets.

Peace, love, and empathy.

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Paris

I was not ready for all the bombshells Paris Hilton dropped in this book.

 

I'm kind of obsessed with the "It Girls" of the early 2000s. These are the girls I grew up watching in real time, and saw their worlds crumble around them in the media. Paris, Britney, and Lindsay literally went through hell and somehow in 2023 ended up on the other side. And I'm grateful for that.

 

For years we heard about their parting, clubbing, and bad habits. But it's hard to imagine judging them now the way they were judged then. They were in their 20's, doing what literally every single twenty year old woman does....living their best lives.

 

That being said, Paris doesn't really talk about that part of her life in this book. Yes, it's in there but the bulk of her memoir talks about her time in trouble youth camps and schools. You know the one's we all heard about in hushed whispers because no one wanted to admit there might be abuse going on there.....even though there absolutely was.

 

I genuinely don't know how Paris or any of the other kids in these schools survived. Hell, some of them didn't. The Provo school that Paris was forced into has been compared to the likes of the Standford Prison Experiment by Phillip Zimbardo. A study that literally got shut down after a few weeks because of the horrific power dynamics surrounding solitary confinement and breaking people down to their absolute lowest point.

Paris was literally ripped from her bed in her own home and shoved into one of these schools after the other. I could almost hear her voice shaking while reading the words on the page.

I am so happy to see her thriving now, living her truest life, and doing everything in her power to keep this from happening to other kids.

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This felt like an overly researched news article that just needed to make their word count.

 

I read true crime books regularly and for some reason I just could not follow this one. Maybe it's because there were so many different factors that Diane Fanning was explaining all at once. With Marc Evonitz never facing a trial for his crimes, it was harder to understand exactly what happened. He went undetected for several years and other men where suspected in his crimes. But other true crime stories were somehow tied into this one as well. It was just so messy.

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