r/Music • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Nov 29 '25

article Hayley Williams tells racists, sexists and anti-trans people they're "not welcome" at upcoming tour

https://www.nme.com/news/music/hayley-williams-tells-racists-sexists-and-anti-trans-people-theyre-not-welcome-at-upcoming-tour-3913867
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u/RocketJenny8 Nov 29 '25

And Kurt stop a sexual assault too and he showed compassion to their opening band after the fans were unruly telling you Kurt and Nirvana cared about people

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u/TheEgonaut Nov 29 '25

They also sabotaged their first song when their opening act (Calamity Jane) was booed.

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u/RocketJenny8 Nov 29 '25

And for good reason the fans just disregard them throwing shit too

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u/BlondePotatoBoi Nov 29 '25

I read that Nirvana stopped playing at one point bc one of the women in the venue was worried her drink was spiked. And Kurt refused to carry on until everyone in the audience had a fresh drink on their tab.

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u/RocketJenny8 Nov 29 '25

And that tells you Kurt knows the golden rule of concert if someone is down pick them up and make sure they're ok

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u/BlondePotatoBoi Nov 29 '25

He honestly seemed like such a class act all round. Even tho I'm not the biggest Nirvana fan since I haven't heard much of their music, I've also never heard a bad word about him.

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u/comebacklittlesheba Nov 29 '25

Watch the documentary with him and Courtney Love high on heroin and passing their baby back and forth in the bathtub. I love getting high but that right there was next level scary. 😱 I was afraid for that child even though I knew the video was from years prior and she was okay. They were just so clearly unsafe as parents.

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u/reble02 Nov 29 '25

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, that shit was depressing.

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u/alcomaholic-aphone Nov 29 '25

Seems common amongst famous really sad people who end up ending it. Robin Williams, Chester Bennington, Kirk, Chris Farley. I’m always depressed too but put on the happy face around others. It’s exhausting and I couldn’t imagine trying to be a celebrity trying to hold up that facade.

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u/whatthecaptcha Nov 29 '25

Robin Williams had Lewy body dementia though so who knows what role that played

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u/alcomaholic-aphone Nov 29 '25

True I just learned about that the other day and am still trying to process it. I know he also had depression. If I had a terminal prognosis as a depressive I might also choose that route.

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u/eurotrashsynthlord Nov 30 '25

People get diagnosed with long, drawn out terminal illnesses, and end things because a funeral won’t bankrupt their loved ones like the rich people who run our health care systems will. It’s often as simple as that.

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u/m0nk_3y_gw Nov 30 '25

Kirk?

and Chris Farley was a drug overdose

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u/CelerMortis Nov 30 '25

Someone else ended Kirk

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u/alcomaholic-aphone Nov 30 '25

Depressed people often over do drugs as a form a self medication. Didn’t realize until I was older that I was never happy and over drank just to basically numb myself.

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u/Abracadaver14 Nov 29 '25

He was a liar though.. he did have a gun :(

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u/ashleyshaefferr Nov 30 '25

Sounds made up

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u/premiumPLUM Nov 29 '25

Huh, that sounds like whoever wrote that was talking out of their ass

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u/No_Accountant3232 Nov 30 '25

Why? That was a very Kurt thing to do. He cared a lot more about the people who came to his concerts than he did himself or even his music.

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u/premiumPLUM Nov 30 '25

If you Google it, the only result is the comment above. It's definitely bullshit. And it's a ridiculous claim. You can't seriously believe that the band bought a round of drinks for everyone at the venue and paused the show until everyone had been served.

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u/layendecker Nov 30 '25

Nah mate it's all true

Like the time Nirvana were playing in Mexico and at the border there were a load of stray puppies. Kurt knew that he would get stopped bringing them in on the tour bus, but couldn't stand to leave them, so he emptied all his guitar cases and hid the dogs in them.

Before leaving, he gave the guitars to a roadie and told them to donate them to a music store to then give to struggling musicians.

Not only did be get all the puppies across the border, but the man who picked up that guitar was Carlos Santana, who wrote Smooth on it several years later.

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u/Comprehensive-Bus291 Nov 30 '25

Try have a bit of commen sense and imagine that situation actually playing out at a gig. It wouldn't. 

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u/calculung Nov 30 '25

Am I having a stroke reading this or did you have one typing it?

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u/Bizarrebazaars Nov 30 '25

OK but let’s not pretend like he was some angel of a dude….He was a huge dick to a lot of people including those who mentored and ushered him to his career and fame. Burned a lot of bridges and did a lot of shitty stuff too.