JEFF PEARLMAN

This is just wrong

Screen Shot 2015-11-23 at 12.56.41 AMAs a guy who loves Nirvana, I have to say—what the hell?

Can Justin Bieber even name a Nirvana song? Besides “Smells Like Teen Spirit”? Does he understand what Kurt Cobain stood for? What his music did? How it felt? Does he realize that Nirvana ushered in a new way of thinking about song construction? Does he know how tortured Cobain was? How much pain he felt? Does he realize that songs, to the three Nirvana members, weren’t merely things you sang. They were things you bled.

Does he realize any of that?

Or was this just a $300 T-shirt?

One that goes against everything Cobain would have appreciated.

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