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    What was Adam Levine looking like in 2009....
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  7. naamahdarling reblogged this from naamahdarling and added:
    I feel obligated to say that the line for literally anyone else would probably be “The guy above the newspaper fold was...
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  9. hypocean said: Pete Wentz and/or Gerard Way?
  10. what-do-vegetarians-eat reblogged this from naamahdarling and added:
    Gerard Way?
  11. naamahdarling said: @sothatwassomething lmao good questions though, mostly aesthetically (cobain was actually pretty good-looking, but in a way that really put off a large number of adults and mainstream kids at the time) but with a kind of similarity in audience, someone who would be associated with unnecessarily edgy types and misfits, and would be considered attractive by those same people.
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  13. shiverandqueeef said: Sorry for wildly overthinking your question lmao
  14. shiverandqueeef said: Green Day being like Pop Punk Rock isn’t dead guys!!! so…it depends on what you need referenced the most? Do you want a comparison that matches Cobain more aesthetically, in terms of crossover success, fame level or like…similarity in audience?
  15. shiverandqueeef said: I mean it’s a kinda impossible question because there just wasn’t a 2009 Kurt Cobain? By which I mean there wasn’t any one dude who was THAT dude who had the respect of fellow musicians/approval from critics/acceptance by alt audiences AND mainstream hits. Aesthetically in 2009 alt music wasn’t grunge so much as emo/post new medal/straight up rock and than like… (con.t)
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  17. exercisingpotato said: James blunt? I kid but he had a scruffy phase and also kinda disappeared
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  19. forgotn1 reblogged this from nudityandnerdery and added:
    I believe the 2009 equivalent of Kurt Cobain would be Amy Winehouse, if we're being honest. Both super talented artists...
  20. picklesandtwigs said: Tyson Ritter of All American Rejects?
  21. thebunnyadventures reblogged this from nudityandnerdery and added:
    Billie Joe Armstrong?
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  23. earlgraytay said: Frank Iero? Maybe Brendon Urie?
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  26. nudityandnerdery reblogged this from knitmeapony and added:
    Gerard Way?
  27. onyxmoonstone said: Bert McCracken? 2009 is a little later than the height of his popularity, but he’s my best answer.
  28. taeyonarahitori said: christopher drew never shout never
  29. jayalaw reblogged this from naamahdarling and added:
    Signal boosting. I’d say the Onceler but I don’t know when the Lorax came out
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