https://www.instagram.com/stories/1dhistorian/3956399358560099978?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=OHM5Zzh5YmxwZ3B2
Idk if you can see this but it's 1dhistorian's story and she's talking about louis' cover of foo fighter's hero (chefs kiss btw absolutely insane idk why this wasn't selected as the main cover. I don't think the whole cover is available yet but god i want it bad). And she just gave an interesting perspective on why louis chose the song. Just thought to share it w u and get your thoughts
"The lead singer of Foo Fighters Dave Grohl was the drummer of the band Nirvana, right? Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, famously passed after a battle with addiction and the loss THUNDERED across the music world. Dave has discussed that this song was inspired by self-reflection he did following Kurt's loss, when "the whole idea of hero Worship or idolatry warped into something I thought was strange. You take a human being and you turn them into a deity. It's really bizarre… my perception of a hero kind of changed. If you listen to the lyrics to the song, it's all about an ordinary hero. Just a regular person."
We were MASSIVELY into Foo Fighters and Nirvana in my house growing up, and I thought about the parallels immediately when I watched Louis sing this. Because I wondered if him choosing to sing it was born of a similar reflective urge as the one that caused Dave to write it.
Being a celebrity and losing a real-life friend, watching the entire world who hero worships your friend mourn them in a way that turns them into a god of sorts, and trying to reconcile that to you they were an ordinary person but still a hero of sorts? Or else being frustrated that people put your friend or even you on this pedestal when you believe they should be doing that to other people who 'deserve it more'?"
Oh… that’s so painful. He sounded amazing on that cover. I wish that’s what he’d chosen for Live Lounge. I think he would have gotten an enormous reaction.
