I had no idea!

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Bean. Made me laugh.

Bean a son.

Somebody is Canadian, maybe.

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I remember the 90s were very feminist (in the good way). What happened in the new millennium? FemNazi's took over, SJWs ? Seems like things took a step backward in many ways.

duh

"rape me " was written as a reaction to the lack of response and understanding of "polly". basically "oh, that was too difficult to understand? this one should be a little clearer."

I knew some of this stuff, but not that. But that seems ... problematic.

Cobain's lyrics were pretty famously difficult to understand. I had no clue what most of the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit were until like 20 years after I first heard it when I was 10. Weird Al's parody of the song directly jabs at this, which a whole verse being:

"It's so unintelligible
I just can't get it through my skull
It's hard to bargle nawdle zouss???
With all these marbles in my mouth"


Considering all of that, if you're listening to "Polly" or "Rape Me" but only hearing half of the words, is it any surprise that people might not fully grasp the message? Might even interpret the songs as being pro instead of anti?

I love Nirvana. I agree with the intended messages of their music (at least, to the extent that I understand them). But any time that a band thinks that they don't want fans who don't agree with their "message", I tend to think it is just pointless.

Lots of bands take very clear political / ethical stances in their music. I can like the music without being fully on board with those messages. Even if I'm utterly opposed to them. I can like Rage Against the Machine without fighting the system. I can like System of a Down without being ... psycho? You might be a registered Republican who likes NOFX, or a registered Democrat who likes Kid Rock or Brooks and Dunn.

Basically, if I like what you're doing musically I don't give two shits about what your message is. The extent to which it might make me like you more or less is very negligible.

At least they are "about", anyone can interpret freely.

I mean assholes will be assholes no matter what.

Just discovered this animation series. It is terrific.

And then there is this one about Kurt Cobain.

https://youtu.be/7QRaWd0ixhU

Sorry that Feminism got boring for you.

Oh Feminism got interesting, in the Chinese sense of the word unfortunately. Seems par for the course these days though as it seems pretty much everyone and everything is going crazy.

It's not that it got boring, it's that it got taken taken over by idiots, which are 10x louder than the sensible people.

And by idiots I mean, the people who say that science is false, because a lot of it was done my men. etc