Why did Kurt hate this song so much?

>>127008548 (OP)
It's a shit song.

guy who spent his life trying to make it hates that he finally made it

>>127008548 (OP)
He didn't hate it, but it was like Creep for Radiohead, it blew up too hard and people kept asking them to perform it, until they got sick of it

>>127008583
I think it's a pretty catchy tune

>>127008548 (OP)
Basically >>127008607
Didn't wanna be a one hit wonder and be forever known as the "smells like teen spirit" guy.

>>127008548 (OP)
Probably reminded him of that sizzling summer night back in 1992

>>127008583
FPBP

>>127008548 (OP)
gay

the chorus always sounded very grim to me, the chord progression is really depressive and I just can't imagine this song being blasted everywhere in 1991

>>127008548 (OP)
Because it barley made the charts
>>127008607
Lies

>>127008548 (OP)
I dunno, he was always a contrarian for some reason. Teen Spirit is legit one of the best songs of all time, and you gotta be on crack to deny that.

HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO

>>127008548 (OP)
Basically he pretended to hate fame despite signing for a major label and releasing a pop rock album, there also the whole thanking geffen during the vmas and rolling stone covers and top of the pops appearance but thats another story. Anyways slts happened to be thwir biggest song so he felt the need to pretend to hate it despite bringing him the money and fame he desperately craved

Proof that the Cobain posts are a psyop. Ask yourselves: why are there multiple Cobain posts a day? Why does nobody else find this odd? If I gave a shit I'd go after the Morrison posters also, but I'm just one guy. Are there any other humans here?

>>127008583
Most of their music is awful. There is a good likelihood that this is the most overrated band of all time. Most overrated bands have something redeeming about them no matter how small it may be. Not with Nirvana. Their music is pure garbage.

>>127008548 (OP)
It's not his best work. It's a good song but it's shallow, overplayed and has aged poorly compared to the rest of their discography. It barely sounds like Nirvana, it's almost more Pearl Jam than Nirvana in the sense that it's less good.

>>127012007
if you can somehow imagine being a teenager in 1991 you wouldn't say that
like someone else said it has this grim buildup in it that captured the feeling of being a counter culture comic book reading teen in the early 90's
do you even have a skateboard? long hair?

>>127009052
Raped?

>>127008548 (OP)

Probably because he always saw himself and his band as an outsider, which they always were compared to the mainstream pop industry, that was until that song.
Suddenly they were dead in the middle of mainstream pop music and that kind of fucked his world view.
At that point you are no longer an artist with a vision, you are just a dancing monkey for the masses and he didn't want to be that. Its probably pretty hard to navigate out of though, as he still has to keep putting out records and the rest of the band probably wants to stay in the mainstream to make lots of money.
Foo fighters are probably what the rest of the band wanted to do ie max money making and he prob wanted to go back to doing weird dissonant shit. So it all fell apart.

>>127009052
>>127012812
There's a difference between being malicious and being retarded.
And you idiots are somehow both.

Pathetic, retarded leeches thinking that they were somehow cheated out of money by Kurt.

>>127008548 (OP)
>his retarded wife orchestrated a complex murder plot
Talk about giving someone more credit than they deserve.

>>127012904
Apparently some people were upsetti spaghetti at Kurt.
Tough.

He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Knows not what it means
And I say he's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Knows not what it means
And I say yeah

But he did say in his journal that he wanted to psyop a generation so maybe he just got tired of the attention he got from basically everyone

>>127012854
It’s not their fault a bunch of big black bulbasaurs busted Kurt’s crust in the scorching hot summer of ‘92. “Rape Me” indeed!

>>127013038
Sure, bud.

You know, if Kurt joined wrastlin' he'd probably use a meme name like Macho Man or something.

*cough*

>>127008548 (OP)
Kurt is insecure.

Kurt had a tweaker gait

>>127013101
How's that?

Except when he was walking out on stage high

>>127009332
gen x were angsty, kurt just cashed in on it. he said he wanted to make the "perfect pop song" so he stole the more than a feeling chords and distorted them

>>127013151
Mashed up from a bunch of influences.
Stole implies direct rip.

Like sampling, bad case being that new "Anxiety" song.

>>127009647
he was a reject and those guys have trouble when all the people who rejected them all of a sudden want to be their friends because they're famous now.

he's a sad lonely faggot

>>127012916
This song was written about Earth’s Dylan Carlson a.k.a. The Guy Who Wielded the Shotgun and the verse lyrics appear to be about trafficking children:
Sell the kids for food
Weather changes moods
Spring is here again
Reproductive glands

>>127013778
Couldn’t be more obvious:
We can have some more
Nature is a whore
Bruises on the fruit
Tender age in bloom

Kurt Cobain ended up hating “Smells Like Teen Spirit” for several reasons, despite (or because of) its massive success. Here's a breakdown of why:
1. It Overshadowed the Rest of Nirvana’s Work

The song became so popular that it defined Nirvana in the public eye.

Cobain felt it misrepresented the band’s broader sound and message. He once said:

“I can barely, especially on a bad night like tonight, get through ‘Teen Spirit.’ I literally want to throw my guitar down and walk away.”

He felt other songs—like “Drain You” or “Aneurysm”—were more musically interesting, but fans and media fixated on this one.
2. It Attracted the Wrong Crowd

Nirvana came from the underground punk and grunge scene. After “Teen Spirit,” Cobain was disturbed by the growing number of fans who didn’t understand or share the band’s anti-mainstream values.

In his words:

“The audience was full of jocks and frat boys who used to beat me up in high school. I hated that.”

This irony—that a song mocking mainstream apathy was embraced by the very culture it critiqued—deeply bothered him.
3. He Grew Tired of Playing It

Cobain was an artist who valued authenticity and evolution. Playing the same song repeatedly, especially one he felt misunderstood, became exhausting and disheartening.

It didn’t help that every show and interview seemed to revolve around that one hit.

4. The Lyrics Were Meant to Be Nonsense

Cobain said he “was basically trying to rip off the Pixies” with the quiet-loud dynamic of the song.

The lyrics were intentionally vague and sarcastic, but people took them seriously or tried to decode them like scripture.

That reaction clashed with Cobain’s own ambivalence toward meaning and fame.

>>127013867
You should use your own brain to think.

>>127012904
It's not just Courtney, although by her own admission she slashed the tires to all of his cars at the time before he got murdered. Same with practicing his signature and being the one who hired an electrician to work on the greenhouse while obviously knowing he'd find Kurt dead there. This took place after Dylan Carson was meant to 'check the house' but didn't, supposedly.

>>127008583
it was a vibe back then, big
thats why u still are angry about it now
its timeless

I hate when bands do this shit
>NO!!!!! Do NOT ask us to play our most famous song

i dont get it, why are people angry about pointless shit

He liked the song until roughly summer of ‘92. Then something happened that caused a sudden shift in his thinking. Maybe the song just got too popular for his tastes?

>>127008548 (OP)
He had better songs.

calling smells like teen spirit overrated has become such a midwit take

>>127017230
What about the suicide note?

>>127018764
Why did the pen have no fingerprints?
Why are there different writing styles?
Why didn't they just let Kurt have a break?

>>127008548 (OP)
Basically the same thing that happened to Warrant with Cherry Pie, people focused too much on one song

>>127018764
>What about the suicide note?
first half (in one hand writing) doesn't scream suicide...to me it sounded like a letter he'd write if he was quiting the band

then in another handwriting "life which will be so much better without me" first actual suicidal sounding line

now he could've been super high and his handwriting went to shit, but idk

i think he was writing a letter explaining leaving the band/taking a pause on his music career to be published in Rolling Stone or something...then C. Love had him killed

>>127018979
>>>127018764
>>What about the suicide note?
>writing a letter explaining leaving the band/taking a pause on his music career
"The worst crime I can think of would be to rip people off by faking it and pretending as if I'm having 100% fun. Sometimes I feel as if I should have a punch-in time clock before I walk out on stage. I've tried everything within my power to appreciate it (and I do,God, believe me I do, but it's not enough). I appreciate the fact that I and we have affected and entertained a lot of people. It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child. On our last 3 tours, I've had a much better appreciation for all the people I've known personally, and as fans of our music, but I still can't get over the frustration, the guilt and empathy I have for everyone. There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad. The sad little, sensitive, unappreciative, Pisces, Jesus man. Why don't you just enjoy it? I don't know! "