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In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Frances Bean Cobain spoke publicly about her father, late Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain, for the first time, saying, “Kurt got to the point where he eventually had to sacrifice every bit of who he was to his art, because the world demanded it of him. I think that was one of the main triggers as to why he felt he didn’t want to be here and everyone would be happier without him.” 

 

Frances recalled, “I was around 15 when I realized he was inescapable. Even if I was in a car and had the radio on, there’s my dad. He’s larger than life. And our culture is obsessed with dead musicians. We love to put them on a pedestal.”

 

NOT A NIRVANA FAN…

Frances reveals she’s not really a Nirvana fan: “I don’t really like Nirvana that much . . . I’m more into Mercury Rev, Oasis, Brian Jonestown Massacre. The grunge scene is not what I’m interested in.”

 

She did single out “Dumb” as one of her favorite Nirvana tracks, saying, “I cry every time I hear that song. It’s a stripped-down version of Kurt’s perception of himself. Of himself on drugs, off drugs, feeling inadequate to be titled the voice of a generation.”

 

Frances also recalled one of the first times she hung out with the surviving members of Nirvana after she had gotten older, saying, “They had what I call the ‘K. C. Jeebies,’ which is when they see me, they see Kurt. They look at me, and you can see they’re looking at a ghost. They were all getting the K. C. Jeebies hardcore.”

 

The 22-year-old Frances has stayed mostly out of the public eye since her father’s death in 1994 and her more recent estrangement from her mother, Courtney Love.

 

She’s emerged now as one of the executive producers of Montage Of Heck, a documentary about her father that opens in selected theaters this weekend and will premiere on HBO on May 4th.

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