I feel stupid and contagious - going to back to behaving like a teenager may come across as being stupid, and it's a disease that could spread to anybody around you :-)Ī mulato!/ An Albino! /A mosquito! / My libido! - word to create more incomprehensible stuff With the lights out, it's less dangerous - partying? Hello, hello, hello, hello - this is part of creating non-sensibility that I've talked earlier in the post. She's overboard self assured- I don't know what this means In this line, "lose" means something like losing your mind. It's fun to lose and to pretend -This lines sumps up the basis of the song: pretend to be a teenager when you are well beyond that age. Load up on guns, / Bring your friends - Kurt Cobain is referring to crazy things teenagers to with their friends, not necessary means shooting So without further ado, let's to some alternative rock analysis: After 22 years later, it's still in heavy rotation on rock, classic rock and pop radios. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" still enjoys vast amount of mainstream success. This is the only rock n' roll song that I can think of that actually ended up really annoying the artist in the long run! Thus, it ended up diminishing other good songs off the album like "Come as You Are", "Lithium" and "In Bloom." As a consequence, the band purposely left "Teen Spirit" out of the charts. In other words, this is the only that Nirvana's fans focused on. Furthermore, song's popularity went as far as hurting the band as well, ironically. They were asked by record companies to grow a goatee, and write songs that lyrically resemble "Smells Like Teen Spirit." This didn't sit well with heavy metal bands like Megadeth and Metallica, but that's besides the point. The impact of the song was so huge at the time, it even forced other artists to change their approach to music. 1, it was surely in the top 10 - a remarkable feat for Nirvana who never really expected much commercial success. In fact, following the unpredicted success of the debut single, the album went on top charts in the US, Canada and several European countries. It also propelled the album, Nevermind, to commercial success. The song is single-handedly responsible for shredding light on the alternative rock sub-genre.
On the downside, as a result of the unclear voice of Cobain, some radio stations initially refused to play "Smells Like Teen Spirit," but following some limited play on alternative rock radio, the song immediately crossed over to pop rock radio, and eventually to mainstream. However, Nirvana's insistence on crating incomprehensible sounds and lyrics were very unique, and deserves a lot credit for what they managed to do. Although hard rock, which was quite popular in the 1980s, was sung with distortion, the words were pronounced clearly enough for the audience to understand. The theme and style and genre itself were a new concept at the time. It's also hard to pick out a central theme or message from the song - just like a day in the life of a teenager. There's also the lazy uttering of Kurt Cobain to keep pronunciations vague, but this was done purposely to mirror the dialects of teenagers. This is reflected through nonsensical and incomprehensible lyrics. The song is about feeling like teenagers even when are well past that age. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is the definite rock anthem of the Generation X - my generation, and I'm pound to be represented by Nirvana. Smells Like Teen Spirit is the debut single of Nevermind
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