User blog comment:MichaelDiaz101/Rest in Peace, Chris Cornell/@comment-4833053-20170520135238/@comment-4059927-20170520190503

I had hoped that this was a myth as well. I've met pretty much all of the Grunge icons, save for Kurt and Layne, and I thought Chris to be just a tender soul. When I heard that he had died it was like losing a dear friend.

I don't think Nirvana is overrated, but his music spoke to me at such a young age and his lyrics about divorce, and having to deal with that spoke to me as around the time Nevermind came out my parents had divorced and so his lyrics fit very strong into my own narrative of how my life was playing out. I was young when Kurt died but was very distraught when I heard it happened. Also I was young, but my uncle took me to see one of Layne's last concerts and to me I think Layne is the greatest singer in Grunge, or any subgenre of Rock. He was perfect. I was a teen when he died and it really broke my heart.

When I was starting to become more attuned to Grunge the shitty Grunge acts came in (Staind, Bush, Nickleback, etc) and so it ruined my perception of the ones that came in the early 90s that truly changed Rock.