Rivers Cuomo Becomes Kurt Cuobain on Twitter
This week, there has been a lot of serious news regarding Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. Sunday marked 
the 21st anniversary of his passing; we’ve heard a depressing, previous unreleased Cobain track; and daughter Frances Bean Cobain told the world that she doesn’t like the music of Nirvana. Perhaps lost in all of this was some levity: enter Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo.
A few days ago on Twitter, Cuomo switched his Twitter name to ‘Kurt Cuobain’ and changed his profile picture to a shot of him looking very much like the fallen Nirvana frontman. Additionally, there was a ‘Weezirvana’ photo (seen below) shared on his timeline.
Cuomo’s love for the music of Cobain is no secret. Last November, he told Rolling Stone about his favourite Nirvana song: “Aneurysm.”
“It’s my very favourite Nirvana song to play as a performer – to me it has the best balance of the Bleach-era guitar riffage and the melodic catchiness and chord simplicity of Nevermind. You get the best of both worlds,” explained Cuomo.
“All the parts are super-catchy and grinding, and it has that trademark soft-loud-soft-loud Nirvana dynamic,” he continued. “Then there’s [this] bonus hook at the end of the song, where he starts singing, ‘She came to pump it straight to my heart.’ When it gets to that point and he gives you this bonus hook that presses any emotional buttons in you that haven’t been pressed yet – I mean, that completely wipes out the possibility of anyone else being able to have written this song.”
-Adam Grant
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