Comments on: Who Will Be Our Kurt Cobain?

By: L. Edward Neale

L. Edward Neale — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:13:42 +0000

Without a doubt the canadian Journalist Naomi Klien was/is the voice of gen Y. The books No Logo and The Shock Doctrine Ring Any Bells.
The time period spanning the beginning and end of Gen Y closely coincided with the rise of the most extreme period of Neo-liberal freemarket globalisation and the beginning of its collapse.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:12:26 +0000

I agree with Scott and Xochitl. The “voice” of our Splinter Generation doesn’t seem to be a direct and singular voice (or at least not yet), such as that of Kurt Cobain’s, but rather a vast, and I would go so far as to say discombobulated, amalgamation of voices that have been allowed to take shape and be fostered by firstly the internet and then consequently the inventions of Google, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, you name it. Is this a problem? It has, in a sense, certainly made us dependent. Perhaps the voices of our generation are people like Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs, who have succeeded in creating and continuing to create/promote the connectedness that we all supposedly desire?

This is slightly off topic, but I can’t help but be reminded of this article published in the July/August 2008 issue of Atlantic Monthly.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/

By: Colby Duran

Colby Duran — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:50:58 +0000

She is a totally outstanding performer. I adore all of her albums.

By: We’re Blogging, And On The Radio! | Splinter Generation

We’re Blogging, And On The Radio! | Splinter Generation — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:57:39 +0000

[...] if you have a moment, come by and see what us editors are writing about, whether it’s our generation’s Kurt Cobain, our real feelings about Dan Brown, or the terrifying fact that our generation is starting to run [...]

By: And The Beat [Of Generational Music] Goes On | Ypulse

And The Beat [Of Generational Music] Goes On | Ypulse — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:19:43 +0000

[...] other week we retweeted a post from our friends over at The Splinter Generation asking readers “Who will be this generation’s Kurt Cobain?” Along with a call for nominees, it addressed the difficulty in searching for any such singular icon [...]

By: Xochitl

Xochitl — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:26:24 +0000

Ha! Pandora. So true, Andrew. How would an interview with Pandora go? I would like to crack the science that is the rabbit hole of likes and dislikes. Or ask where songs go when Pandora says, “We will never play that song again”? That statement always feels so ominous. I like my options, Pandora. Don’t exile a song for eternity just put in on a shelf because I may want it later.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:14:50 +0000

I don’t think we’ll have a direct Cobain analog, a point well-covered already. However, the younger Splinters have an anthem in “Welcome to the Black Parade” by My Chemical Romance.

I think we could stand to do far worse than to put Sam Beam (Iron & Wine) on a pedestal. A mellow elder with deep roots.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:53:08 +0000

It’s Pandora radio. Algorithmic personalization, online, on-demand. That’s our generation’s sound. Hell, that’s our generation.

By: Jessie Carty

Jessie Carty — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:57:18 +0000

Ya know, I’ve never really bought into the whole voice of a generation either and I don’t know that it was true about other generations. Recording history, such as in anthologies, is so very subjective. Who will be in our canon and music memory will deal a lot with who the recorders of the history are…

By: Xochitl

Xochitl — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:23:06 +0000

I think Scott has a point. We are in a time where anyone and everyone can have a voice, and everyone is their own celebrity. It isn’t always something I praise since we also live in an age where “privacy” has become obsolete, but with things like youtube, music downloading, and blogs, we get to decide who are voices are.

But if I were to pick someone I would pick Banksy.