>Kurt Cobain kills himself after Nirvana becomes too big for

>social rejects don't react well to being at the top of the societal structure
Not surprising desu

Because they were all literal junkies.

>>74046978
OP, stop being so dumb, it's obvious that they had problems since the beginning of their musical careers, having success had little to do with it.

>>74046978
>social rejects who got together because they were rejects somehow don't know how to handle being popular

>>74046978
tell the members of pearl jam theyre shit at handling success
unless you're unable to walk up to any of their mansions

...because you know, you're probably going to have that problem.

>>74046978
it's because the substance behind what they delivered through their music had everything to do with going against the system. Sure they could've just played music in their garage, kept all of their recordings hidden in their basement hidden away from the public and leave it at that.

But, like everyone living in this "system," people have to eat and pay bills. I'm sure somewhere down the line before they became famous, they had to somehow make some money to pay those bills. How else were they gonna do it? Teach music at a school perhaps? Maybe that wasn't their style. Write music for the film industry? Maybe that wasn't their thing too. What other venues can musicians turn to in order to make money doing what they love?

the irony of them making it through the system via the music industry is that while it enabled them to earn money writing and playing music, the attention it gave them, especially grungers who've likely lived most of their lives as outsiders, nobody's and social outcasts, to all of a sudden being icons of that system they went against in their development years as teens, early adulthood, is going to fuck you up mentally and emotionally once you reach a later stage in life.

It wasn't that surprising that Staley and Cobain killed themselves considering how shitty their lives were leading up to their rise to fame.
Once you become rich and famous and adored by millions and realize that none of those things provide any solid emotional stability and safety to your life and that you're just as fucked as you've ever been if not even more so, suicide(whether immediate as in Cobain's case or prolonged as in Staley's case) might present itself as the only palatable choice.

The whole point of grunge is how miserable and depressing it is. They wouldn't be making that music in the first place if they were stable minded happy people.

>following Alice In Chains' rise to being one of the biggest rock bands on the planet
Were AiC really *that* big? I know they were big, but I always figured they were like a step below Pearl Jam or Nirvana in popularity.

>amalgamation of all the theories itt

>>74046978
Heavy drug use and roots of being underground that got chewed up by the music factory. You play music because you love it, if the money comes it comes, you can't turn it down if the opportunity presents itself. But then you are in the machine and the machine grinds. If you don't constantly move, the gears pull you in.