Time & Perspective Quote by Krist Novoselic

There is something almost punk about the refusal embedded in that line: not anger, not nostalgia, just a shrug with teeth. Krist Novoselic isn’t talking about web browsing. He’s quietly declining the modern expectation that an artist, especially one tied to a mythic band, must keep feeding the shrine. A “Nirvana web site” stands in for the whole online afterlife industry: fan forums, merch drops, anniversary cycles, algorithmic grief tourism. His point isn’t that Nirvana doesn’t matter; it’s that living inside its digital museum is a choice, and he’s opting out.

The intent reads like boundary-setting from someone who’s spent decades being asked to act as a curator of a tragedy. Nirvana’s story has been flattened into a consumable narrative where every artifact is content and every memory is a clickable relic. Novoselic’s casual phrasing (“can’t remember”) is doing the work. It dodges confrontation while still signaling distance, a way of saying: I’m not here to authenticate your nostalgia.

Context matters: for surviving members, “Nirvana” is both legacy and burden, a brand that keeps asking for participation. For fans, the internet became the place to keep Kurt Cobain “alive” in a loop. Novoselic’s line punctures that loop. It’s a reminder that the people who made the music are not obligated to live in its echo chamber - and that refusing to constantly revisit the archive might be the most honest form of respect.