I once adored his voice, for many years, until he lost it, the divinity of his voice. He now is a casual rock singer with a great past but with little capacity to impress me like he used to impress me.
I am talking about Chris Cornell, I was one of the kids whom fell for the hit single, Black Hole Sun, of their breakthrough album, Superunknown, back in late 1995. At that time I first started discovering alternative music, and it started all there with Soundgarden, but before I knew they broke up. Luckily for me, Chris went on to a solo career, the music and the lyrics were as strange and intruiging and tempting as they always had been. Even when he went on to sing with the RATM guys in Audioslave he kept his high standard until their second album, which has some great songs, but it started to miss the magic Cornell’s lyrics always had. I didn’t buy the third Audioslave record, I won it, with an autograph of Chris on the disc, but I’ve never listened it from that disc, to be honest. All the greatness of the lyricist and singer Chris Cornell were teeming and the voice had left me. Not only don’t I listen to rock music like Cornell makes nowadays anymore, but the style the image he sets for himself it pushes me away. Of course it’s great that he’s happy with his new family, but he lost his modesty, the eclectic humm of a dreamer has been lost. He might be a big guy now, but the sad thing is I liked him better as the modest guy with the awesome voice.
I do dedicate this blog to him, the person whom has sung with an amazing band and wrote great songs and sang them with all his heart.
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