Selena Gomez Was Once ‘Obsessed’ with Kurt Cobain
Selena Gomez is an impressive multi-hyphenate: She’s an actor, a pop singer, a philanthropist and so much more. It turns out the “more” in that equation is a Kurt Cobain…
Selena Gomez is an impressive multi-hyphenate: She's an actor, a pop singer, a philanthropist and so much more. It turns out the "more" in that equation is a Kurt Cobain superfan.
Gomez touched on this during a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. She noted how her mother would play a variety of music for her growing up. From there, she got really into the late Nirvana frontman.
"I kind of got obsessed and dyed my hair and cut my hair like him," said Gomez. " ... I would rewatch his interviews, I would watch his performances, I've seen his documentary, like, 12 times."
(If only Gomez were on Kimmel with her Only Murders in the Building co-stars Steve Martin and Martin Short. We'd love to know who they were once "obsessed" with, too.)
If you're surprised by Gomez's fandom of Cobain, you really shouldn't be. In fact, it's quite common for many young people growing up following Cobain's death to go through a "Nirvana phase." It's something Dave Grohl talked about in October 2023 when he, Krist Novoselic and producer Steve Albini sat for an interview with Conan O'Brien for his podcast Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. The purpose of the interview was to reflect on the 30th anniversary of In Utero, Nirvana's final studio album.
Grohl, a father of three, said during the chat, "What I've realized is that kids these days, there's like a window between the ages of 10 and 13 or maybe 11 and 14, where almost every kid goes through a Nirvana phase."
He then reasons why this happens and concludes that it has less to do with Nirvana sonically and more to do with the content of the lyrics.
" ... I think it means the same thing today to those kids that it meant when we released it, " says Grohl. He notes he considers this "the coolest thing."
