Blew
‘Blew’ was inspired by Cobain’s intense claustrophobia whilst living in Aberdeen, Seattle, as a teen. He was restless when he was growing up and would often fantasise about killing his classmates.
‘Blew’ was inspired by Cobain’s intense claustrophobia whilst living in Aberdeen, Seattle, as a teen. He was restless when he was growing up and would often fantasise about killing his classmates.
Number of mass shootings in the US - 1989-2019
As of December, there were nine mass shootings in the United States in 2019. This is compared to one mass shooting in 1982, one in 2000, and 12 mass shootings in 2018.
The song that would spark Butch Vig’s interest in producing Nevermind, About A Girl was written for then-girlfriend Tracy Marander, who constantly complained that he had written songs about every element of his life apart from her.
Percentage of female representatives in US Senate - 1989-2019
There are 25 women serving in the U.S. Senate, a historic high. Of these, 17 are Democrats and eight are Republicans. The first woman in the Senate was Rebecca Felton (D-Ga.), who was appointed to the seat as a political maneuver in 1922 and served just one day. Nancy Kassebaum (R-Kan.), who served in the Senate from 1978 to 1997, was the first female senator who was not initially elected to fill an unexpired congressional term.
Cobain poised the Seattle grunge scene as ‘incentously small, cliquey and stuck-up’, and decided to scorn the grunge scene with School, a very grunge song.
Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a rock music genre and subculture that emerged during the mid-1980s in the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns. The early grunge movement revolved around Seattle's independent record label Sub Pop and the region's underground music scene. The owners of Sub Pop marketed Northwestern punk rock shrewdly and the media was encouraged to describe it as "grunge", which came to mean a punk and metal hybrid style of music.[6] By the early 1990s its popularity had spread, with grunge bands appearing in California, then emerging in other parts of the United States and in Australia, building strong followings and signing major record deals.
Love Buzz is actually a cover of a song from 60's psychedelic band, Shocking Blue. Kris played his version of the riff at rehearsals with Nirvana one day, not knowing that this cover would be integral to their getting signed to Sub Pop Records.
Cyan is percentage of people who met through friends; red is percentage of people who met online.
Nearly 23 percent of the straight subjects in Rosenfeld's study who met their partners online in the past decade were between 35 and 44, making middle-aged heterosexuals the most likely straight group to do so. The youngest study participants – those between 18 and 24 – were the least likely to have met a partner online.
Scoff is about people who have been told that they will never amount to anything in life.Scoff depicts the worthlessness Cobain’s dad instilled in him as a kid. With lyrics such as ‘gimme the alcohol’, Scoff also deep dives into Cobain’s relationship to alcohol because of it.
Per capita alcohol consumption in the US (in gallons of ethanol) - 1990-2017
Per capita alcohol consumption in the United States has increased in the past couple of decades to reach 2.34 gallons of ethanol per capita in 2017. Beer remains the most consumed alcoholic beverage in the U.S. In 2017, over 20 million gallons of beer were consumed.
Another song inspired by Cobain’s time in Aberdeen, Swap Meet describes people selling their unwanted stuff at car boot sales to try and keep it together financially. He goes on to say that they only have their photographs, cigarettes and broken relationships holding them together.
Percentage of people living in poverty in the US - 1989-2018
This statistic shows the poverty rate in the United States among all people from 1990 to 2018. In 2018, the poverty rate was 11.8 percent in the U.S.