- Audience-Alienating Premise: This is basically why Chris's album Scream flopped: An artist best known for fronting the alt-rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave collaborates with Timbaland, a hip-hop/R&B producer, for a dance-pop album. The record didn't fly well with Cornell's usual audience or attract him any new listeners, and the commercial failure of this was a major factor in Suretone Records' demise.
- Harsher in Hindsight:
- The video for "Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart" has Chris playing a prisoner about to be hanged. YouTube even wound up removing it after his death.
- His close friend Chester Bennington died by suicide on what would have been Cornell's next birthday, which many fans suspect is not at all a coincidence (especially since he, too, hanged himself).
- Cornell himself chose the 37th anniversary of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis's suicide by hanging for his own suicide by hanging. Again, some fans have wondered if the date and method were more than just a coincidence.
- Tear Jerker:
- "The Promise" (from the movie of the same name). Already a somber song on its own given its subject and it being the last released song before his death, the posthumously-released video takes it
one step further. - His posthumous cover of "Patience" by Guns N' Roses is a melancholic, acoustic rendition that will tug at your heartstrings.
- Likewise his cover of Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U". The pain in his voice is palpable.
- "The Promise" (from the movie of the same name). Already a somber song on its own given its subject and it being the last released song before his death, the posthumously-released video takes it
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