Ongoing History Daily: Some music-related conspiracies

Everyone likes a good conspiracy theory, right? Here are a few tinfoil hat theories that keep going round and round and round.

(1) Kurt Cobain was murdered. This one just won’t go away.

(2) The punk rock of the 1970s was actually a communist-funded plot designed to destabilize Western democracies;

(3) Lorde was not a teenager when she released Royals. “She’s just too mature an artist to be that young!”

(4) Gangsta rap was invented by the US government to help fill some newly constructed privately run prisons

(5) Bob Marley’s cancer was seeded by the CIA because they were worried he was becoming too popular.

Got any good ones? Let me know.