YouTube Video of the Day: Jared Leto Releases Kurt Cobain Cover To Honor the Singer's Life

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Brenna Ehrlich
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YouTube Video of the Day: Jared Leto Releases Kurt Cobain Cover To Honor the Singer's Life

In what is apparently a hotly contested move, actor and musician Jared Leto (he has a band called 30 Seconds to Mars) released a short video in which he covered and dressed up as Kurt Cobain. The video was made awhile ago, it seems, but Leto released it Tuesday to honor the 17th anniversary of the singer's death.

Whatever the intentions of the video (a lot of outlets and commenters think it's a shill), in it, Leto executes an impression that might convince less-stable fans that the artist did not actually leave this mortal coil. (It also made us recall fondly that episode of My So-Called Life in which Leto's character, Jordan Catalano, sings a song called "Red" and then Angela thinks it's about her, but it's really about his car.)

He posted the following below the vid on YouTube:

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