‘Nirvana Unseen’ Perhaps A Guilt Response By MTV

Kevin Devine of popmatters.com reviewed the MTV2 special ‘Nirvana Unseen’ which profiles the group and includes performance pieces. Devine said of the show that premiered earlier this month, “Nirvana represented a sea shift in what could sell 10 million albums, but the other garbage that [MTV] ‘killed’ never really went anywhere. It was just nice that for a few years we had some other options on the radio and on television. But those few years turned Kurt Cobain into a piece of copyrighted imagery just as cartoonish and pixilated as the icons he and his railed against, just as much as his foolish Christ pose turned him into a rock n’ roll cliche.” Read more.